Salvation Army adding more space with rise in asylum seekers
For the second time in six months, the Salvation Army is adding space to address the number of people using emergency shelter services.
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Apr 17
Housing asylum seekers at Niagara hotels cost Canada more than $100 million
Newly released figures from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada show the federal government spent more than $100 million housing asylum seekers at hotels.
Canada
Mar 26
Haitian Montrealers call for special program for those immigrating from home country
Given the situation in Haiti now, advocates believe the Canadian government should grant the asylum seekers in Canada permanent residency status on humanitarian grounds.
Canada
Mar 27
A Nigerian family says they face ‘persecution’ if deported. They’re pleading to stay
Deborah Adegboye says she, her husband and first child were fleeing religious persecution in their home country when they entered Canada as asylum-seekers via Roxham Road.
Canada
Mar 29
Influx of newcomers causing stress for Winnipeg shelters
The call for help from shelters in British Columbia to provide housing for refugees and asylum seekers is a familiar refrain for organizations here in Manitoba.
Canada
Mar 13
Trudeau rejects Quebec’s ask for total powers on immigration
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is refusing to give Quebec total control over immigration, as tensions between the province and Ottawa deepen over an influx of asylum seekers.
Canada
Mar 15
Quebec isn’t serious in discussing asylum seeker costs, Ottawa says
Marc Miller told reporters in Ottawa Tuesday that Quebec provincial politicians seem to prefer to negotiate in public, which he says isn't the way "responsible governments" behave.
Canada
Feb 27
Quebec demands $1B in compensation from Ottawa over ‘inaction’ on asylum seekers
Four provincial ministers say Quebec, which has less than a quarter of the Canadian population, receives 55 per cent of all asylum seekers.
Canada
Feb 20
Quebec bar slams Legault for questioning independence of federally appointed judges
The comments from the Barreau du Québec follow Legault's statements Thursday accusing the PQ leader of prostrating himself before Ottawa regarding a Court of Appeal decision.
Politics
Feb 23
Quebec looks to Supreme Court to stop asylum seekers’ access to subsidized daycare
The case originated with a woman from the Democratic Republic of Congo who had a work permit but whose three children were denied spaces in the heavily subsidized daycare system.
Canada
Feb 21
Non-French-speaking asylum seekers should be encouraged to move outside Quebec, commissioner says
Quebec's commissioner for the French language says temporary immigration is contributing to the decline of the French language in Quebec, including an increase in asylum seekers.
Canada
Feb 15
Toronto getting $143 million in federal funding for asylum seeker shelter support
Earlier this week, Immigration Minister Marc Miller had announced Ottawa would spend $362 million to help cities and provinces house asylum seekers.
Canada
Feb 2
Asylum seekers coming through Montreal airport in record numbers
Roxham Road, an unofficial border crossing, might be closed but asylum seekers have found another way to enter Canada in record numbers: Montreal's Trudeau Airport.
Politics
Feb 1
Ottawa commits $362M to help provinces, municipalities house asylum seekers
The new funding will come from the Interim Housing Assistance Program, which assists provincial and municipal governments with the costs of operating shelter spaces for refugees.
Canada
Jan 31
‘Politicized’ immigration debate could hurt jobs, Quebec employers group says
The long-running debate over immigration between Quebec and Ottawa has flared in recent months, but the head of a major employers group says 'in some ways, it's deplorable.'
Canada
Apr 15
Dollars and cents: Ontario homelessness spend balloons as community housing craters
Internal data shows Ontario has increased its homelessness spend over the past five years, while the provincial money for community housing appears to have fallen.
Politics
Apr 23
Migrant protest demands regularization and end of ‘scapegoating’
Hundreds of migrants and their supporters marched through the streets of Montreal demanding regularization for all and for an end to the scapegoating of migrants.
Canada
Mar 16
Montreal family fighting deportation to Nigeria can stay for now, advocates say
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Adegboye and her husband have worked as orderlies providing health care to vulnerable patients.
Canada
Apr 2
Quebec premier threatens referendum on immigration powers, calls out Trudeau
Quebec Premier François Legault urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to 'listen to Quebecers' when it comes to concerns over immigration levels.
Politics
Apr 9
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