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Judith Steel remembers holding her father's hand, being told to look off to the right for a moment, and feeling someone else take her hand.

A new report suggests a controversial commercial spyware was used to infect the cellphone of a prominent Saudi political refugee and activist in Quebec shortly before Saudi authorities arrested the man's brothers and friends back home.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will formally apologize in November for turning away a boat of German Jews seeking asylum in 1939, which led to the deaths of more than 200 people.

Canada is willing to consider any possible measures that might reduce gun violence and organized crime, but will stay the course when it comes to border security, says the federal minister who's now overseeing the Liberal government's approach to all three.

Inside a large brick home in midtown Toronto, people pore over documents needed to file refugee claims, discuss the legal aid system, and work through the challenges of finding housing.

"Trudeau and other politicians must realize the real-life consequences of their words when it comes to immigration. It is not compassionate nor prudent to give these individuals false hope when we know that the majority of the asylum claims before the Immigration and Refugee Board will eventually be rejected." — Conservative MP Michelle Rempel. CP tests this and a reply for accuracy.

A Yazidi boy who was held captive for three years by Iraqi militants before being reunited with his family in Winnipeg last year is requesting a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Would-be Canadians need more than just a desire for a better economic future if they expect to be granted refugee status in this country, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees arrives in Canada this weekend for what his agency had hoped would be a chance to publicly applaud Canada's decision to take in a higher number of refugees next year.

Canada's national police force and border watchdog say they have the resources they need — for now — to deal with the influx of people entering the country illegally in search of asylum.

One local resident said her only concern was about whether it was legal for her to offer help to the asylum seekers.

Canada's border agency is seeing an uptick this year, but officials are hesitant to call it a trend just yet.

Conservatives, now in Opposition, have stopped short of calling for a law, adopted while they were in government, to be enforced.

Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre told reporters he felt compelled to act because of events south of the border.

​Saciido Shaie says something seemed to be weighing on her friend Mohamed Badal in the days before he vanished.