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The Media Roundup provides links to recent and archived articles, in both English and French, on immigration and diversity appearing in the national and local news. Some international content is also included. Articles are updated weekly.
Workers are needed in Fort St. John. Driving along the downtown streets, it’s easy to notice the plethora of help wanted signs outside local businesses. On Wednesday the Province’s Immigration task force headed north to discuss the Energetic City’s employment current and future status. Immigration task force chair and MLA – Richmond – Steveston John Yap led the meeting and was joined by local politicians and business reps.
Canada’s sanctions against Iran were meant to stop Tehran’s ability to build nuclear weapons, but they are also having a devastating impact on Canada’s large Iranian diaspora, community leaders say. Now there are talks underway between the foreign ministry and the federal immigration department to address the effects that a devalued Iranian currency and a ban on financial transactions are having on Iranian-Canadians.
They don’t call us the ‘heart of the continent’ for nothing. Winnipeg sponsors more refugees than any other community in Canada. And Africans are our newest and fastest-growing group of refugees. Today we present the Africa edition, a Free Press editorial project designed to explore the city and province’s ties.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/special/ourcityourworld/africa/
From where do Manitoba’s African immigrants hail? The Free Press takes a closer look at the statistics.
Hundreds of refugees arrive in Manitoba each year, each one trying to carve out a home in a city where there are too few homes to go around. And while social-service agencies push to find their clients safe places to stay, the housing gap leaves many refugees from Africa and elsewhere stuck in a catch-22 that can put their new life on pause for months.
On Monday, the Roma refugees asked Justice James Russell to certify their lawsuit as a class action against the federal government, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and former Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon. Their lawsuits stem from Kenney’s public comments describing the Roma as “bogus” refugees, the foreign affairs department’s imposition of visitor visas on people visiting from the Czech Republic, and a country report produced by the refugee board in 2009 justifying refusal based on the argument that there is state protection available to the Roma in the Czech Republic.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1116638–roma-refugees-seek-class-action-certification