Syrian refugees

Canada's decision to welcome an unlimited number of Ukrainians to Canada on a temporary basis marks a positive and hopefully permanent change to the way the country handles major crises around the world, the Canadian Council for Refugees says.

Ahmad Almahmoud has dedicated time every day to follow the news, wanting to be an informed citizen for this fall's federal election.

One by one, seven small white caskets were carried inside a cavernous waterfront hall on Saturday, February 23, 2019, where thousands of mourners gathered for an emotional embrace of grieving parents who lost their children in a devastating house fire.

Relatives of the seven children died in a fatal house fire in Halifax Tuesday, are grieving and desperately seeking a way to come to Canada to support the surviving parents. 

A snapshot of the first large group of Syrian refugees arriving in Canada finds those the government sponsored are less educated, less likely to speak English or French and had more trouble finding a job.

“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.”

Neither Canada nor the United States is experiencing a crisis in asylum claims, says the United Nations' assistant high commissioner for refugees.

A family of Syrian refugees in British Columbia got a tax bill for $27,000 after the Canada Revenue Agency asked the parents to prove their children live with them in Canada — by getting a letter from their school in July.

A Vancouver radio reporter says people on social media, including a vocal British politician, should be more careful about spreading fake news.

Hasan Sheblack, a Syrian refugee, and Guss Ash, a Jordanian immigrant, met while working construction at the Fairmont Hotel in Vancouver. A few years later, the two are not only business partners, they consider each other “brothers.”

Ola Al Abbas, a 19-year-old student, came to B.C. with her six sisters, two brothers and her parents. At first, she hated school and had difficulty understanding classes and making friends.

Raghda Hassan, with her hair tucked into an immaculate white scarf, is preparing to make Knafeh, a Arabic cheese-based dessert enveloped with a crunchy vermicelli style dough and pistachio nuts on top.

On Wednesday night, about forty refugees got the cultural experience of a lifetime as they climbed over the visitors’ bench to take the ice at Rogers Arena.

The Liberal government is struggling to track the impact of its historic effort to resettle upwards of 40,000 Syrian refugees, the federal auditor general concluded on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, in his fall report.

Three Syrian refugee families pulled their children out of a B.C. school over bullying. What happened?