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The mayors of three Ontario cities are calling on the federal government to help them support asylum seekers being transferred to their communities after entering the country through an unofficial border crossing in Quebec. The leaders of Niagara Falls, Cornwall and Windsor say local supports are being stretched to capacity …

Victor Manuel, a young asylum seeker from Mexico, arrived at Montreal’s St-Donat school on a frigid morning last week with his seven-year-old son and baby boy, whose bootless feet were covered only in socks. A social worker quickly alerted principal Yannick Dupont, who disappeared into a storage room and returned …