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Janice Dickson And Catriona Koenig The Globe and Mail January 13, 2023

A new report from Human Rights Watch criticizes Canada for violating the rights of Indigenous people and immigration detainees, and for not doing enough to address human rights issues abroad.

The latest…

CTV News Dave Charbonneau Thursday, January 12th 2023

The Food Services Training Program at the Ottawa Mission is a free program that gives the most vulnerable a chance to turn their lives around.

The program is helping one Ukrainian refugee start a new life in a new country.

Tet…

Nojoud Al Mallees The Canadian Press Friday, January 13, 2023

OTTAWA -- As Canada plans to significantly ramp up its immigration levels in the coming years, some policy experts are worried about potential effects on health care, housing and the labour market.

But Immigration…

Anya Zoledziowski Vice January 10, 2023

Rynn Azerial Willgohs, a 50-year-old transgender woman, has been rapidly researching ways to flee the United States. She’s from the U.S., but with physical attacks against transgender and nonbinary people on the rise and lawmakers targeting…

TVO Veaceslav Balan and Frederick John Packer Jan 9, 2023

In August 2022, Statistics Canada released the latest census data on languages in Canada. According to the data, over 9 million people — or one in four Canadians — have a mother tongue other than English or French (a…

Amnesty International January 9, 2023

The rights of refugees and migrants must be a top priority during the North American Leaders’ Summit in Mexico City, said Amnesty International today. President Biden, President López Obrador and Prime Minister Trudeau must stop implementing…

Adrian Humphreys The National Post Published Jan 09, 2023  

“The moral debt owed to immigrants who worked on the frontlines to help protect vulnerable people in Canada during the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic cannot be understated,” a judge said last year in a ruling for…

Courtney Dickson · CBC News · Posted: Jan 06, 2023

Simon Fraser University professor Svitlana Matviyenko was in Kyiv on New Year's Eve when Russia fired missiles into the city. 

"It was a very strange experience, obviously. And scary in many ways," she told Stephen Quinn, the…

J.P. Antonacci The Hamilton Spectator Sat., Jan. 7, 2023

Olha Diletchuk first came to Titan Trailers near Courtland in June, one week after she and her two young children landed in Canada as refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine.

“I was ready to do any job just to stay here. I was…

Policy Options Kaitlin Peters January 9, 2023

In 2021, a Montreal daycare flagged a three-year-old Black child for ”troubling behaviour,” deciding to call Quebec’s youth protection services before having a meeting with the child’s parents. The parents – both of whom had…