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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted September 21, 2023 10:59 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size Toronto’s ombudsman is launching an investigation into the city’s decision to deny refugee claimants space in city shelters and direct them to federal programs. Ombudsman Kwame Addo says the investigation will …
Read More »Toronto mayor’s office scrambles to enact refugee policy passed months ago – Toronto
One of Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow‘s first acts in her new role was to reverse a city policy which had drawn widespread condemnation over the treatment of those fleeing conditions in their homelands, but months after the motion was passed, her office had to scramble to get staff to actually …
Read More »Refugee shelter crisis 1st item at Chow’s first council meeting as Toronto mayor – Toronto
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted July 19, 2023 8:29 am Updated July 19, 2023 9:40 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size TORONTO — Olivia Chow says her first Toronto city council meeting as mayor will open with a motion about the refugee shelter and housing crisis. …
Read More »Refugee children do not place significant demands on health care, Ontario data shows
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted December 2, 2022 8:54 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size TORONTO — New research indicates refugee children and youth aged under 17 do not place substantial demands on the health care system in Ontario compared with their Canadian-born peers. A study …
Read More »Refugee advocates worried about impact of fighter jet flyby at Redblacks game
It took Olha Kinash about a month to get used to planes flying overhead again. Kinash was in Kyiv when Russian forces invaded Ukraine and began bombarding the nation’s capital. She and her family fled as fast as they could, settling in Ottawa in late April. She’s now one of several people voicing concerns about …
Read More »Meet the Ukrainian refugee pets — and their humans — who arrived in St. John’s
Olga and Ivan Antoniuk and their two cats, Bella and Simba, arrived in St. John’s after fleeing from Ukraine. (Caroline Hillier/CBC) It turns out that Bella — a 13-year-old fluffy, skittish cat with kidney disease that, before last week, had never left her apartment in Ukraine — is a bit of …
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