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.
Global News – Play Tells Story of Ukrainian Immigrant’s Escape from Banff Internment Camp
A Canadian playwright is hoping his play will raise awareness about how immigrants and refugees have been treated in this country. Run Nawrocki Run! Escape from Banff Prison tells the story one of over 8,000 eastern Europeans who were sent to internment camps during the First World War. Norman Nawrocki wrote the play after learning that his family name was on a list of prisoners. In the play Nestor, a Ukrainian-Canadian citizen, is imprisoned in a federal camp. He rebels and manages to escape.
Globe and Mail – ‘We Are at Risk’: Taliban Tracking 200 Afghans They Claim Are Canadian Spies
Two hundred Afghans, mostly women who worked on Canadian-funded aid projects in Afghanistan, are being tracked down by the Taliban and are in hiding after the militants obtained their names from a confiscated cellphone. A pair of Afghan women, whose names were on the seized phone, say their lives are in imminent danger because the Taliban obtained their phone numbers, pictures of themselves and saw text messages where the women criticized the country’s hard-line Islamist rulers.
CBC News – Calgary’s Centre for Newcomers Opens New Facility in City’s Northeast
Calgary’s Centre for Newcomers has officially opened in its new location, which gives the busy settlement organization a bigger and much more visible presence in the community. The non-profit agency that helps immigrants and refugees took over the space formerly occupied by two big box stores at Northgate Village, located across from Marlborough Mall on 36th Street N.E. The centre has a 200-seat auditorium, a storefront cafe run by newcomers as well as child care, a spiritual space and a youth centre.
CTV News – Transgender Refugee Feels like a ‘Criminal’ as She Awaits Resettlement in Canada
The 23 year old arrived in Canada as a refugee on June 6 after spending the last several years living as a transgender refugee in Turkey. Rose was ecstatic when the UN Refugee agency told her she’d be moving to Canada. While she remains grateful to the government and Canadians across the country, Rose says her vision of a free, open life has so far been shattered. When she arrived she was sent to live in a Toronto area hotel with other refugees who she says verbally abuse her daily because of her sexual orientation.
Global News – Ukraine Crisis Highlights Refugee Care Inequities in Canada: ‘No Easy Fix’
The ongoing crisis in Ukraine has reverberated in Canada in highlighting refugee care inequities. Immigration processes and waived waiting periods for health-care coverage for Ukrainians contrast with treatment of other refugees, according to a recent article published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), written by Abigail Cukier and Lauren Vogel. For example, some refugees could face several months of wait time to access provincial health insurance after coming to Canada, but a few provinces have provided immediate access to Ukrainians coming into the country.
Globe and Mail – Liberal MP Calls on Ottawa to Grant Refuge to 10,000 Uyghurs Fleeing China
An MP from Canada’s governing Liberal Party is tabling a parliamentary motion that he hopes will spur Ottawa to take action on Uyghurs persecuted by the Chinese government. Sameer Zuberi is tabling a motion in the House of Commons Monday calling on the federal government to make room in its refugee intake numbers for 10,000 Uyghurs and members of other Turkic groups who have fled China and are living in third countries. Parliament is about to rise for the summer but the motion will be debated and voted on this fall.
