Interim Federal Health Program

• 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.

  Canada

  Jun 19, 2022
  
• Some Canadian refugees are more equal than others

  If 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.

  Canada

  Jan 19, 2016
  
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• Ontario prepares for refugee influx: timing and magnitude unknown

  Ontario 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.

  Canada

  Nov 15, 2015
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• Refugee health cuts: Even those who qualify get turned away

  The 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.

  Canada

  Jul 8, 2015
• Refugee health cuts violate charter, gov’t has 4 months to change: court

  Why the federal court has ruled Ottawa's cutbacks to health-care coverage for refugee claimants constitute "cruel and unusual" treatment.

  Canada

  Jul 4, 2014
• Providing healthcare to everyone in Canada, including refugees

  The 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.

  Blogs

  Jun 16, 2014