No front page content has been created yet.
The self-directed course will run between September 12, 2022 - October 24, 2022. This self-directed two-part course series is developed to help front-line workers better understand and respond to sexual violence in immigrant and refugee communities.
Welcoming Week is an annual opportunity to recognize and celebrate the people, places and values that help everyone feel welcome and that they belong in their local community, no matter where they come from.
Marie Woolf
The Canadian Press
Published Wednesday, August 10, 2022 8:14PM EDT
OTTAWA -- Two containers of food bound for Afghanistan have been cancelled by a Canada-based aid agency because of a law banning any dealings with the Taliban.
World Vision says it has been forced to cancel a large shipment of “therapeutic food,” which it said could have fed around 1,800 children.
Bill Graveland
The Canadian Press
Published Aug. 11, 2022 1
CALGARY - A new report says Canada needs to change its federal visa policy to speed up the admission of Ukrainian refugees, which has slowed to a trickle.
The study by the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy released Thursday says that compared to other countries, Canada has received a small number of the millions of Ukrainians who have been displaced since Russia invaded the eastern European country in February.
'The (Canadian) government is just ambiguously silent to the vast majority of these people. No one is getting any kind of answer back'
Author of the article:Tom Blackwell
Publishing date:Aug 11, 2022
Somewhere in southern Afghanistan, a former employee of Canada’s armed forces has been living for the last eight months in a hole in the ground, literally.