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TORONTO — A home-sharing platform hopes to connect refugees in need of temporary housing with homeowners who have spare rooms to rent, in an effort to help ease the shelter crisis in Toronto. The non-profit Happipad, which operates in cities across the country, opened up its Refugee Housing Canada program …
Read More »Watchdog to probe Toronto policy to direct shelter-seeking refugee claimants to feds
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 »No new money for asylum seekers after Toronto mayor meets refugees minister
The fight over jurisdictional responsibility, funding commitments and care for thousands of refugees in city shelters and church buildings saw the federal minister in charge of the file meeting with Toronto’s mayor, where he said he hadn’t come with the intention of writing a cheque. Minister of Immigration, Refugees and …
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 »Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow tours church housing refugees, calls on feds to visit – Toronto
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow is calling on newly minted federal cabinet members to visit churches that have been housing refugees and asylum-seekers in recent weeks. Speaking in front of makeshift beds set up at a church in Toronto’s north end, Chow invited Immigration Minister Marc Miller and Housing Minister Sean …
Read More »Asylum seekers, refugees relocated from downtown Toronto streets to North York church – Toronto
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Asylum seekers and refugees who were camped out along the streets of downtown Toronto waiting for shelter and housing have been temporarily relocated to a church in North York. Dozens of people had been living in tents along Richmond and Peter streets …
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