With the pandemic moving many offices online, virtual hearings have become a silver lining for refugee claimants. Remote options are showing to be more efficient than the traditional in-person practice.
View More Virtual Hearings Speed Up some Refugee Claims
A career in journalism can mean risking your safety in many parts of the world. Refugee journalists based in Toronto share their stories of fleeing the dangerous situations at home in the documentary The Cost of Freedom
View More The Cost of Freedom – Refugee Journalists in Canada
Turkish Canadians are frustrated that Hagia Sophia, a UNESCO World Heritage site, has been reduced to a political ploy.
View More Turkish Canadians React to Hagia Sophia Becoming a Mosque
As a journalist in Turkey, Seckin Ergun has covered many stories of courage, but none as personal as this one. He turns his focus on his wife, the woman who risked her life so he and their sons could seek refuge in Canada.
View More Unsung Hero: A Woman’s Sacrifice to Bring her Family to Canada
It’s been 2 months since a massive 4.8 million dollar chandelier was unveiled under the Granville Bridge, and many articles have been written criticizing the developer, Westbank Corp., for hanging the chandelier over the homeless people of Vancouver. Many people are asking the same question: “What could have done with that money for homeless people?”
View More What Spins, Weighs 3.4 Tonnes and Insults Vancouver’s Homeless?
In a region that still believes in the “Greater Syria”, where “Southern Syria” included Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories, the name “Al Quds Force” had given Suleimani elusive legitimacy.
View More What Qassim Suleimani’s killing means to Syrians in Canada
The ones who’re born into a democracy may take the value of democracy as a given! They might not know about the governments who live in palaces, who sit on thrones
View More Oct. 21 Vote: A Failure of Journalism and Democracy
Just how sophisticated are most terrorists anyway? Sometimes, I think most of us get terrorism very, very wrong. I am not sure whether this is due to the Hollywood effect where terrorists seem to be…
View More Most Terrorists are Average Joes
In the wake of Brussels — at least for now — we’re back in the bad old days of the War of Civilizations narrative. In the face of terror most foul, fury and vengeance are…
View More We’re Learning the Wrong Lessons from Brussels — and It’s Going to Cost UsThe Canadian government announced their plan today to bring 10,000 Syrian refugees to the country by the end of the year, with an additional 15,000 to follow in January and February of 2016. The Ministers…
View More Govt Scales Back Year-End Refugee Target