Canadian Government to Invest $100 Million to Support Women Impacted by the Pandemic
February 11, 2021 – Ottawa, Ontario – Women and Gender Equality Canada
SETTLEMENT WORKERS NEED TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF HUMAN RIGHTS LAWS IN ONTARIO AND CANADA, IN ORDER TO INFORM IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES OF THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS.
February 11, 2021 – Ottawa, Ontario – Women and Gender Equality Canada
The ICES recently published a report on the impact of COVID-19 in Immigrants, Refugees and Other Recent OHIP Registrants in Toronto, data as of November 1, 2020 and trends over time as of November 7, 2020, fully titled "Key findings from ICES Report on COVID-19 in Immigrants, Refugees and Other Recent OHIP Registrants (Guttmann A,
Gandhi S, Wanigaratne S, Lu H, Ferreira-Legere LE. Toronto, ON: ICES; 2020.)".
Some key findings are:
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