COVID-19 has become a major barrier for an Afghan father who left a dozen challenges behind. For him and many other refugees, family reunification in Canada has become a challenge due to ongoing bureaucratic delays.
View More A Refugee Father’s Struggle to Reunite with His Family During COVID-19
Race relations activists and observers say it is time to take off the masks that prevent people from acknowledging that systemic racism exists and police brutality happens.
View More Challenging Views on Systemic Racism, Police Brutality in CanadaIt was a moment of delightful reflection. The indecently smug politicians of a distant island continent, wealthy, cruel in refugee policy and lazy in development, stunned by encountering a short fused U.S. President who had…
View More Friendly Advice to Trudeau from Australia
Following a highly emotional day in Canada after news broke that Alan Kurdi — the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed up on a Turkish beach — applied to come to Canada earlier this year…
View More Drowned Syrian Boy’s Family Did Not Apply for Asylum: OttawaAs many as 1,200 boat people drowned attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea headed for Europe during a 10-day period last April. The drownings drew media attention to a growing and cyclical phenomenon: the arrival…
View More No Easy Options for Europe’s Refugee Crisis
The United Nations Human Rights Committee has turned in a damning report on key Harper government policies, recommending changes to its controversial anti-terrorism law, C-51, and calling for an immediate national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. The…
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They come from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Palestine, Somalia, Eritrea, Libya and even West Africa. They walk many thousands of miles, traversing every imaginable landscape, using any possible means of transportation and encountering people, good and…
View More Refugee Numbers Increasing Dramatically
I was in Italy on Oct. 3 when news broke about the overloaded ship that foundered off Santorino in the Mediterranean, resulting in the death of several hundred asylum seekers. Most the passengers were fleeing…
View More Europeans should do more to stop refugee ships