Canada could turn into a U.S.-style partisan battleground if its politicians and media don’t mend their ways, says former Conservative MP Chris Alexander. Alexander, one…
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Trump Tone Won’t Work for Canada: Chris Alexander
The Trump campaign’s symphony of bigotry has vibrated through the Conservative Party leadership race as two of the candidates choose markedly different paths to victory.…
View More Trump Tone Won’t Work for Canada: Chris AlexanderMaintaining Momentum for Syria
It’s been over one month since images were published showing three-year-old Alan Kurdi’s body washed up on Turkish shores and Canadian support for intervention in…
View More Maintaining Momentum for SyriaNew Efforts by Government to Assist Refugees
The Saskatoon International Airport was a scene of exultation and relief on Sept. 17 when a family of seven Syrian refugees arrived to be reunited…
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Drowned Syrian Boy’s Family Did Not Apply for Asylum: Ottawa
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…
View More Drowned Syrian Boy’s Family Did Not Apply for Asylum: OttawaCanada to Continue Testing Demand for ‘Millionaire Visas’
Canada will persist with its new Immigrant Investor Venture Capital plan despite the less-than-enthusiastic response to it so far. “Pilot programs like this always take…
View More Canada to Continue Testing Demand for ‘Millionaire Visas’Courting the #CdnImm Vote
It is no secret. Whenever an election is nearing, the number of appearances by incumbents, prospective candidates, ministers and party leaders at roundtables, speeches, photo-ops…
View More Courting the #CdnImm VoteImmigration Policy Should Not ‘Culturalize’ Family Violence: Community Leaders
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” wrote Charles Dickens in the famous opening lines of his novel, A Tale…
View More Immigration Policy Should Not ‘Culturalize’ Family Violence: Community LeadersNo Place to Go: Closing the Door on North Korean Refugees
Jihoon Lee has come a long way since moving to Toronto two and a half years ago. Born in ideologically repressive North Korea, the teenager has…
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Birth Tourism: Rhetoric Ahead of Evidence
What happened to former Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s cracking down on birth tourism: women coming to Canada to give birth so that their…
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