immigrants

The national housing agency is exploring ways to make it easier for entrepreneurs and new immigrants to buy a home by cutting some of the red tape required to prove they can afford a mortgage.

Some of the asylum-seekers who have recently crossed the Canada-U.S. border say they're struggling to find a place to live once they leave government-run temporary shelters.

While thousands of Montrealers braved the rain to attend street parties and parades in honour of Canada's 150th birthday on July 1, 2017, not everyone in the province saw a reason to celebrate.

Two Immigration and Refugee Board appeal judges say a reappointment process is a sham to screen out Conservative appointees and institutional memory is being lost in the process.

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale must fix Canada's broken immigration detention system without putting human rights up for negotiation in the court of public opinion.

A soft-spoken elementary school teacher from a Vancouver suburb is scared to cross the border between Canada and the United States. But she hasn't always felt that way.

Prime Minister Trudeau created a bit of a stir over the weekend when he tweeted a thinly veiled message to the American administration about how Canada welcomes refugees regardless of their religion.

A feeling of dread is rippling through one particular group in the United States, as hundreds of thousands of young people fear they might have to hide in society's shadows during a Trump presidency.

Trudeau is the third prime minister to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau, after Jean Chretien and Stephen Harper. The stop came between the weekend's NATO summit in nearby Warsaw and his arrival in Ukraine.

"Come from away" speaks volumes about Atlantic Canada's apprehensive attitude toward newcomers and its legendary cliquishness. Now, Nova Scotia's senior federal cabinet minister wants that to change.