Interim Federal Health Program
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Ukraine crisis highlights refugee care inequities in Canada: ‘No easy fix’“I find it difficult to find an easy fix,” Adèle Garnier, associate professor in the department of geography at University Laval in Quebec, told Global News.CanadaJun 19, 2022
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Some Canadian refugees are more equal than othersIf you're a refugee or asylum-seeker in Canada, the debt you're saddled with and the health care you get depend on where you're from.CanadaJan 19, 2016
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Ontario prepares for refugee influx: timing and magnitude unknownOntario had sent health care practitioners a memo warning them to brace for a coming influx of Syrian refugees, even though the province doesn't know how many people are coming, and when.CanadaNov 15, 2015
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Refugee health cuts: Even those who qualify get turned awayThe federal government's cuts to health care for refugee applicants, and the resulting confusion over what's covered, has meant even people who qualify for care get turned away by physicians who can't stomach the complex paperwork.CanadaJul 8, 2015
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Refugee health cuts violate charter, gov’t has 4 months to change: courtWhy the federal court has ruled Ottawa's cutbacks to health-care coverage for refugee claimants constitute "cruel and unusual" treatment.CanadaJul 4, 2014
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Providing healthcare to everyone in Canada, including refugeesThe system of universal healthcare was founded on the principles of universal access for all. At least that’s what I thought until I learned about the changes to the Interim Federal Health program.HealthJun 16, 2014
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