Refugees In Canada

• Calls for more affordable housing as over $426M spent to temporarily house asylum claimants

  The federal government has spent over $426 million this fiscal year on temporary accommodations like hotels for asylum claimants.

  Canada

  Apr 12
  
• UN seeks greater refugee support from Canada amid ‘enormous’ global needs

  The United Nations is bracing for a further increase in the number of refugees this year, as last month's earthquake in Turkey and Syria adds to a series of crises.

  Canada

  Mar 4, 2023
  
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• Why migrants risk everything to cross borders in unsafe conditions

  Migration experts say the freezing deaths along the Manitoba border were predictable and preventable. Canada and other countries need to ask why migrants resort to human smugglers.

  Canada

  Jan 24, 2022
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• Calls for refugee sponsors grow as study suggests millions of Canadians open to it

  The BVOR program allows private citizens and non-governmental organizations to step up and sponsor individuals or families with whom they don't have prior relationships.

  Canada

  Jun 20, 2021
• Facing deportation, this Ottawa woman uses her time to sew masks to fight coronavirus

  If Celina Urbanowicz is deported, her family will be split across three countries and two continents.

  Features

  Jun 16, 2020
• Refugee judge who asked woman why husband didn’t ‘just kill’ her to face internal review

  Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) says the refugee judge's "insensitive" questions have prompted the internal review.

  Investigations

  Nov 29, 2019
• Quebec should have power over Ottawa in refugee settlement: Bloc Quebecois leader

  Bloc Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet discussed cases where asylum seekers had been in Quebec for years, were well-integrated and were selected for permanent resident status by the province -- only to be deported after Ottawa rejected their refugee application.

  Politics

  Sep 23, 2019
• ‘Gone in the flames’: 20 years after coming to Nova Scotia in the Kosovar airlift

  “I miss my home, but when I go back there, I miss Canada.”

  Canada

  Jul 12, 2019
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• Canada resettling more than 450 slaves from Libya over next 2 years; 150 arrived last year

  Most of the people being resettled are migrants who were captured while trying to transit through Libya en route to Europe, a government official said.

  Canada

  Feb 6, 2019
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• CBSA told to ‘pick up the pace’ on removing rejected refugee claimants

  Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale is telling the Canada Border Services Agency to remove more refugee claimants whose requests for asylum in Canada have been rejected.

  Canada

  Oct 31, 2018