OTTAWA — The New Democrats and Liberals say Canada needs to do more to help alleviate the Syrian refugee crisis. NDP foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar says the NDP will reach out to the Conservative government to ask it to adopt an “accelerated plan” to …
More than four million Syrians have been forced to escape the never-ending civil war ravaging their country and the barbaric terror group carving a bloody trail across the Middle East. The vast majority live in overcrowded refugee camps in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq …
LONDON—British Prime Minister David Cameron announced Friday that Britain will take in thousands more Syrian refugees amid growing calls for the government to show greater moral leadership in the refugee crisis engulfing Europe. Cameron said Britain will expand its existing resettlement scheme, which has already …
The picture of Alan Kurdi, a Syrian boy whose body washed up on a Turkish beach, has heightened attention to Canada’s own contribution to accepting refugees from that war-torn area and other troubled regions. Critics say that Canada has historically been able to act rapidly to accept refugees on an urgent …
French President Francois Hollande stated on Thursday that he agreed with Angela Merkel on the proposal for a refugee distribution quota. In the past, France repeatedly refused mandatory quotas for sharing the number of refugees among the countries of the European Union. Merkel and Hollande …
On October 19, Canadians will vote in a federal election. With just a few weeks to go and with the latest polls suggesting a tight race, issues surrounding immigration, settlement and citizenship are coming to the fore — not only among Canadian voters, but also …
Property website Realestate.co.nz is expecting Chinese investors to pour US$10.9 billion (NZ$17.2 billion) into this country’s residential and commercial real estate markets as a result of changes being made to overseas investment rules in China. The latest Unconditional newsletter published by Realestate.co.nz this week, said …
Canadian banks are not obliged to follow China’s rules, and nor are they obliged to report clients whom they know to have broken them – so long as they are not breaking any Canadian rules in the process. How far, then, will a financial institution …
Far right protesters opposed to a mosque in a small Australian town have faced counter protests from progressive activists. Anti-racist activists held a counter protest in response to far right groups’ opposition to a construction of a mosque in the Australian town of Bendigo Saturday. Hundreds of anti-racist …
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An agreement between the Upper Canada District School Board (UCDSB) and a public school in China has been renewed. The five-year deal, which was signed in Brockville on Tuesday, will enable more secondary students from China to experience education at UCDSB schools. The agreement is …
Donald Trump is single-handedly forcing the Republican presidential candidates into a wide-ranging debate on immigration that party leaders had hoped to avoid. The dominance of the issue has grown in recent weeks, with the contenders scrambling to respond to Trump’s positions and one-up him when …