Yazidi Refugees
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Almost 800 Yazidi women and girls who survived ISIS are now in Canada as refugeesThe Yazidis are a religious minority group of about 700,000 people that had mostly lived in northern Iraq near the Syrian border.PoliticsOct 5, 2017
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Migrants, war and profits: how federal politics touched Canadians this weekFinger-pointing rhetoric aside, Canadians living along the border with the United States are seeing their tolerance tested.CanadaFeb 25, 2017
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Canada to welcome Yazidi refugees within months: John McCallumImmigration Minister John McCallum says the Liberal government is prepared to start bringing Yazidi refugees into the country within four months.CanadaOct 24, 2016
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Iraq’s Yazidis search for missing loved ones after chaotic escape from militantsUnknown numbers of men, women and children went missing in the chaos as tens of thousands of Iraqis fled in a panic from marauding militants.Aug 11, 2014
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