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Good News: Family With Expired Visas Allowed To Stay In Canada

CBC | Posted 01.21.2013 | Canada Impact
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Canada's immigration minister will allow a Moroccan family to stay in the country despite their visas being revoked a day before arriving in Montreal....

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Our Refugees Need Help, Not Neglect

CAMH | Posted 10.23.2012 | Canada Impact
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Recently, Ottawa introduced Bill C-31, the Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act, and announced it was going to cut temporary health and mental health care to certain categories of refugees. The result was an outcry of support for people who have left everything they own to flee persecution, rape, torture and violence in their home country. Eliminating important supports and services from refugees is nothing short of inhumane. We're speaking out because the issue speaks to the heart of our purpose. We Care.

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Ottawa Could Detain Roma Refugees: Report

CP | Will Campbell, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.18.2012 | Canada Politics
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TORONTO - The federal government is prepared to consider detaining Roma refugee claimants unless recent amendments to the refugee system are successfu...

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Despite Cuts, Most Refugees Will Receive 'First Rate' Health Care

CBC | Posted 08.20.2012 | Canada Politics
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The vast majority of refugees in Canada will continue to receive "comprehensive, first rate" health care, despite cuts to the interim fed...

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'Black Eye' Refugee Bill Passes Final House Hurdle

CBC | Posted 08.11.2012 | Canada Politics
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The government's controversial bill that further reforms Canada's refugee system passed a third reading Monday night in the House of Comm...

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What Humphrey Bogart's "Rick" Would Think of Bill C-31

Sukanya Pillay | Posted 06.05.2012 | Canada
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In the film Casablanca, the narrator tells us of the "tortuous roundabout refugee trail" that sprang up through Europe across the Mediterranean to Morocco, towards freedom in the Americas. If Bill C-31 had been in existence, those refugees would not have been looking to Canada -- is that the point?

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Time To Show 'Em The Door

CBC | Posted 04.16.2012 | Canada
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New, tougher reforms to refugee legislation that hasn't yet come into force are already drawing fire from critics who say they give Canad...

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