Refugees

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.

"There are mixed feelings in our community on what we think they should be doing and shouldn’t be doing," said Cornwall Mayor Leslie O’Shaughnessy.

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.

The soldiers will have no role in security matters and will not participate in law−enforcement tasks. All but a few will return to their home base once the site is completed.

Several in the crowd said they had come to Canada as immigrants themselves and wanted to show their support for the newcomers.

"I have 35 years of of service, I have worked 18 years as an agent on the field at the border and I have never seen anything like that," said Jean-Pierre Fortin, president of the agents' union.

Three advocacy groups are throwing their support behind a woman being named only as "E" in asking the Federal Court to strike down the so−called Safe Third Country Agreement.

Ottawa’s bid to improve the way extended families are reunited in Canada has backfired, leaving thousands of relatives upset and their lawyers frustrated.

As the Metropolis World Congress opens, mayors of Montreal, Berlin and Buenos Aires are advocating more cooperation and leadership from cities to integrate immigrants.

The anti−refugee, anti−immigrant sentiment deployed by politicians is fuelled by fear, and the global challenge is to look at what drives that fear and respond to it, according to the UNHCR.

Airbnb has launched a platform to assist hosts who want to provide free housing to displaced people in need in an effort to help the global refugee crisis.

Members of the 'Five Eyes' intelligence-sharing alliance will automatically provide data to one another that critics say could threaten refugees and others.

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.

Canadian aid workers in the Middle East are preparing for an influx of asylum-seekers into already crowded camps, fearing U.S. military action in Syria could drive more people out of the wartorn count

In Buffalo, N.Y., a client is currently living in a shelter, desperately awaiting news about how she might be reunited with her three young children, all under the age of 10.