Une alliance nationale visant à fournir une base factuelle pour l'établissement et l'intégration des nouveaux arrivants, ainsi que pour la promotion de communautés accueillantes au Canada
La revue de presse fournit des liens aux articles récents et archivés, à la fois en anglais et en français, sur l’immigration et la diversité lesquels ont été publiés dans les média locaux et nationaux. Il y a également des articles internationaux. Cette section est mise à jour hebdomadairement.
Radio-Canada – Conseil scolaire Centre-Nord : les recommandations d’un comité sur l’immigration adoptées
Le conseil scolaire Centre-Nord (CSCN) en Alberta a adopté mardi soir les sept recommandations d’un comité spécial sur l’intégration professionnelle des immigrants dans les écoles. Suivant ces recommandations, le CSCN devra, entre autres, développer une politique pour favoriser l’embauche de personnel issu de l’immigration. Un poste de conseiller en diversité sera également créé pour assurer une meilleure compréhension de la diversité culturelle dans les écoles et au sein du conseil scolaire. La présidente du comité Karen Doucet a assuré que certaines des recommandations seront mises en œuvre dès cet été, dont celle de favoriser une embauche plus diversifiée. « Ce n’est pas le conseil qui fait les entrevues, mais c’est sûr qu’une des recommandations c’est qu’on affiche dans davantage de places où les immigrants vont aller chercher l’information. Donc, oui, on espère avoir plus de candidats et avec ça avoir plus de succès avec l’embauche. »
St. Thomas Times Journal – Thames Valley Board Targets More International Students
Thames Valley District school board trustees pumped more money into international student recruitment and expanding bandwidth in schools at a budget meeting Tuesday night. […]The board will spend about $180,000 for international student recruitment now concentrated in China. The board earns a profit of about $3,000 profit from each international student and will have 29 international students next year. Next, it wants to move recruitment efforts into Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, India and Europe, trustees heard.
Saba Andu often relies on her own experiences when helping refugees make a fresh start in Saskatoon. Even though she came to Canada through family sponsorship, she can empathize with most of the challenges refugee struggle with in the city because she is a war survivor herself. […] Andu has been working at the Saskatoon Open Door Society, in various capacities, for 27 years. Currently, she is a settlement counsellor. She is also in charge of the One Year Window program, which reunites refugees with loved ones they left behind. […] Andu’s job, and that of fellow staff at the Saskatoon Open Door Society, is to help refugees reclaim the power that war stole from them. They need that power to take control of their lives once more, to make important life decisions. Sometimes that process takes as long as three years “In those three years, we are a bridge in the system. We hold their hands and we support them,” Andu says.
“We’ve had so much thrown our way by this government,” said Shahina Siddiqui, executive director of the Islamic Social Services Association. The latest comments she cites are from Immigration Minister Chris Alexander, who insinuated women who wear a face-covering niqab may be terrorists. In an interview with Vice posted June 11, he upheld the Conservative government’s view women should have to remove their niqab to take the oath at citizenship ceremonies, saying Canadians support that. “They don’t want their co-citizens to be terrorists,” Alexander said in the piece. Alexander’s office denied the minister made the remark, but in the interview posted on the Vice website, Alexander says about the niqab ban: “The overwhelming majority of Canadians want that rule to continue to apply. We’ve done a lot in the past year to strengthen the value of Canadian citizenship. People take pride in that. They don’t want their co-citizens to be terrorists. They don’t want people to become citizens who haven’t respected the rules.” “It’s devastating to say the least,” said Siddiqui. Such remarks may appeal to the Conservative party base but cause harm to Canadian Muslims and how they’re perceived, she said
Globe and Mail – Grassroots Initiative Hopes to Bring 1,000 Syrian Refugees to Toronto
A movement to welcome and resettle 1,000 Syrian refugees was launched in Toronto Wednesday, aiming to rekindle the spirit that brought tens of thousands of Vietnamese refugees to this country a generation ago. Lifeline Syria hopes to recruit and train small groups of citizens to become sponsors for refugees and ease their transition out of what the group called the biggest humanitarian emergency of our times. Toronto Mayor John Tory spoke in support of the project and called on the mayors of Ottawa, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver to encourage similar grassroots initiatives in their own cities. […] Canada has pledged to resettle 10,000 Syrians over three years, and a significant portion are expected to be privately sponsored rather than government sponsored. Canada is unique among countries receiving refugees in that citizens, in groups of five, can pledge to support a refugee by offering financial assistance, covering health-care costs and offering guidance in finding work and making the transition to Canadian life. That program was created in response to the Vietnamese migration of 1979. It was initially seen as a supplement to government sponsorship but has since grown substantially.
National Post – Barbaric Cultural Practices’ Bill to Criminalize Forced Marriage, Tackle ‘Honour Killings’ Passes Final Vote
A bill to outlaw forced marriage, prevent polygamist immigrations and tackle “honour killings” is set to become law. Bill S-7, the Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act, passed its final parliamentary hurdle Tuesday evening, by a vote of 182 to 84. The governing Conservatives and Liberals voted for it, with the New Democrats and Green Party opposed. The bill would raise the marriage age to 16 in addition to adding forced marriage to the Criminal Code. It would also toughen the laws around polygamy, with an eye to preventing immigration by those who engage in the practice and making it easier to deport people who do. And, it would toughen the rules around so-called honour killings, so that the defence of provocation can no longer be used in court.
