Canada should take in more refugees, says Tima Kurdi, the aunt of three-year-old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi who died with his brother and mother while fleeing to Greece in 2015.
Climate change and the global refugee crisis are inextricably connected. Yet we're ill-prepared we are to deal with the coming climate refugee challenge.
Ottawa is matching Canadians dollar for dollar in Syria Emergency Relief Fund donations to Feb. 29 — but no end is yet in sight for a war that has now ground on for nearly five years.
thousands of Canadian donors reach into their bank accounts this fall to ensure privately sponsored refugees can make the voyage from crowded camps in the Middle East to Canada.
2015 saw an unprecedented exodus of Syrians, not just out of their home country, but out of the countries nearby where an estimated four million refugees have sought refuge from Syria's civil war.