Ahmed Hussen

Fifteen cities will share $500 million in federal funding so they can buy properties being sold because of the COVID-19 pandemic and use them to help keep people from becoming homeless.

“When a child tells you what they’ve seen in their community or what they know to be true, that is such a powerful and important tool in achieving change in these fields,” Wolfli told National Observer this week. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has taken Canada's campaign for a seat on the United Nations Security Council directly to African diplomats with a speech that tried to emphasize his boyhood connection to the continent.

At least 26 people have been killed in an extremist attack in Somalia including a prominent Somali-Canadian journalist and her husband.

“Canada is not immune to the anti-immigrant, anti-refugee rhetoric around the world but we have a choice to make," said federal Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen in an interview with National Observer. "We can demonstrate to the world the benefits of being open to ideas, open to talent, open to people.”

The Canadian representative to the United Nations Refugee Agency is worried about the misleading rhetoric being used by Conservative voices to speak about refugees and asylum seekers — cautioning the government and human rights advocates to "enter into a serious dialogue" to dispel the myths and remain committed to a growing global migration crisis. 

Next year's federal election campaign will likely be the nastiest one yet, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday, October 2, 2018.

Ontario cabinet minister Lisa MacLeod was conspicuously absent from the podium Friday as Canadian Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen started ripping into Premier Doug Ford's government.

The federal minister of immigration objected on Monday, July 9, 2018, to the new Ontario Tory government's references to people claiming refugee status as "illegal border crossers."

Days after Ontario's June 7 election, representatives from several immigration, refugee and settlement agencies gathered to discuss and strategize over the implications of Premier Doug Ford’s leadership would be on their sector. Some feared Ford would cancel the immigration ministry, which is exactly what he wound up doing.

Toronto can no longer accommodate new waves of refugees and asylum seekers in its shelter system and needs federal and provincial help dealing with the situation, the city's mayor said on Tuesday, June 26, 2018, as he called for immediate support.

Canadians see waterways as integral to our national identity. Do we take the abundance of water for granted?

The Liberal government is misleading people when it says there's no advantage to crossing illegally into Canada to seek asylum, NDP MP Jenny Kwan says.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will participate Wednesday in a Montreal meeting with the federal-provincial task force charged with managing an unprecedented flow of asylum seekers.

More than 7,000 asylum seekers have crossed the Quebec border from Donald Trump's America since July, federal and provincial officials said Thursday at a news conference.