Syrian refugee Shyesh Al-Turki says changing Ontario’s policy on driver’s licences will help refugees find work sooner Ontario’s driver’s licensing rules discriminate against refugees from war-torn countries by demanding written proof of their driving experience from their country of origin — something not required of visitors to Canada and international driving permit holders, a human […]
Read moreMustafa Alio is a co-founder of Refugee Career Jumpstart Project in Toronto, Canada Syrian-born Mustafa Alio has always followed his convictions. His friends thought the 23-year-old was crazy when he decided to leave his home country in 2007. He was the district manager for Syria’s largest telecommunications company, Syriatel, owned a dream apartment and drove a […]
Read moreMore Canadians view border-crossers as economic opportunists than genuine refugees Two-thirds of Canadians believe irregular migration into the country has reached a crisis point, according to a new Angus Reid poll. And about the same number (65 per cent) are of the view that Canada has received “too many” irregular crossers for the country to handle. […]
Read moreOP/ED by Ahmed Hussen, minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Conservative politicians have been peddling false information to stoke fear when it comes to those seeking asylum in Canada. It is time for the misleading, divisive and dangerous political rhetoric to end, and to set the record straight. The fact is that Canada has a strict […]
Read moreIt’s World Refugee Day, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned for the first time the U.S. government’s policy of separating children from their families upon illegal border crossings. “What’s going on in the United States is wrong. I can’t imagine what the families living through this are enduring,” Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa today. “Obviously, […]
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A program that provides help to unaccompanied minors was slashed just as the government has instituted policies that split kids from parents.
