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.
Globe and Mail – Business Groups Urge Rethink to Tories’ Foreign-Worker Reforms
Business groups representing employers of entry-level workers are forming a coalition to push back against the Conservative government’s tight restrictions on the use of temporary foreign workers. Nearly six months after Ottawa announced sweeping changes to the controversial foreign worker program, four employer groups have written a joint letter to the government calling for some of the provisions to be softened. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business, Restaurants Canada, the Retail Council of Canada and the Tourism Industry of Canada sent the letter Monday outlining their concerns. […] Employers of low-skilled, entry-level positions were hardest hit by the changes. The accommodation, food services and retail-trade sectors were essentially barred from the program unless they operate in an area where unemployment is below 6 per cent. The employer coalition wants that 6-per-cent rule reconsidered. They also want the government to reconsider a new rule that caps and gradually lowers the percentage of low-wage temporary foreign workers at each work site from 30 per cent to 10 per cent by July 1, 2016.
Ontario News Release – Diverse Communities Take Action on Violence Against Women
Ontario is supporting a new and innovative public education campaign that helps immigrants learn the warning signs of woman abuse. Ontario’s Neighbours, Friends and Families – Immigrant and Refugee Communities Campaign reaches out to diverse communities by developing products and activities that are accessible and relevant to newcomers. The government is investing $836,500 over two years to support 10 programs across Ontario, including COSTI Immigrant Services, which will deliver the program in partnership with St. Stephen’s Community House to students learning English. St. Stephen’s Community House worked with students to develop a photo-based novel that helps students identify the signs of woman abuse and what actions they can take to help. The novel is being incorporated into COSTI’s learning curriculum starting January 2015.
CBC – Balwin School an Oasis for Refugee and Immigrant Students
Rows of children sit in a school gymnasium with eyes closed. Some fidget but many match the stillness of their teachers and principal meditating up front. Soft music plays and ten minutes pass before the students are invited to open their eyes, do some deep breathing, then sing O Canada. Welcome to the start of each day at Balwin School in northeast Edmonton where many of the students aged four to 15 are refugees and immigrants dealing with challenges such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Yoga and meditation are helping them succeed inside and outside the classroom. […] More than 20 nationalities make up Balwin’s student population, largely of refugee or immigrant background. For many, the trauma of conflict or a refugee camp is more familiar than the classroom or the English language. Even Canadian born students can face tremendous challenges such as intergenerational trauma, integration, poverty or violence within their communities.
Le Devoir – Amnistie internationale appelle Ottawa à accueillir encore 10 000 réfugiés
Le monde, y compris le Canada, doit en faire plus pour accueillir le flot de réfugiés qui fuient la Syrie, somme Amnistie internationale. La communauté canado-syrienne, elle, se demande si Ottawa a été aussi timide dans ce dossier parce qu’il s’agit de réfugiés musulmans. « J’espère que la religion n’est pas un facteur. Mais malheureusement, c’est quelque chose qui se discute dans la communauté », a rapporté Faisal Alazem, du Conseil canado-syrien. « Pourquoi y a-t-il eu une réponse rapide pour [le tremblement de terre en] Haïti et les Philippines [qui ont été frappées par un typhon], mais tout à coup quand on en vient à la Syrie, nous avons l’une des pires réponses à la crise ? Même si c’est la plus importante crise humanitaire que nous ayons vue, selon l’ONU, depuis la création des Nations unies », a lancé M. Alazem, en point de presse vendredi. À ses côtés, les dirigeants d’Amnistie internationale étaient venus sonner l’alarme. Quelque 3,8 millions de Syriens ont fui leur pays chez leurs voisins, qui ont été forcés de fermer leurs frontières, incapables de répondre à la demande. Au Liban, la population a augmenté de 25 % en raison de cette migration de réfugiés syriens. L’ONU estime que 380 000 Syriens doivent être réinstallés.
Brampton Guardian – Settlement Agency for Newcomers Opens Offices in Brampton
AWIC, a community and social services, operating in Toronto for more than 35 years, has opened an office in Brampton. The new offices at 7900 Hurontario St. Suite, 207 will serve as a settlement, social and community agency offering a host of services for newcomers to Canada. […] Over the past few years, staff at the agency’s offices said they were fielding calls from people from Brampton and Mississauga seeking AWIC’s help. That prompted a decision to open a new location in Brampton. […] The agency offers new immigrants one-on-one counselling on the Canadian way-of-of-life and helps individuals and families with their job-search, and advice on accreditation of their credentials, housing and health services, explained Jayashree Pandey, counsellor, AWIC.
The Tyee – Tuition Fees Could Save Some Vancouver Community College ESL Programs: President
An announcement that permits public post-secondary institutions to charge students tuition for some English as a Second Language (ESL) courses means Western Canada’s largest ESL provider could continue to run some of its recently defunded programs. It isn’t enough to save the whole program, however, which costs $11 million a year to run. Four of five ESL departments at Vancouver Community College are scheduled to shut down at the end of this month after federal funding came to an end. Since 2010, the college has received provincial and federal funding for the departments through the Canada-BC Immigration Agreement. The agreement ended last April, ending federal funding and forcing the college to rely on a small amount of money to keep the departments running until Dec. 17. The departments offer a range of ESL level programs, from English for beginners, to pre-college and professional level English for students upgrading their education, wanting their foreign credentials recognized, or looking for a job in their field.
