Marco Mendicino

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Police check out the blocked road leading to the Gidimt'en checkpoint near Houston B.C., on Thursday, January 9, 2020. File photo by The Canadian Press/Jason Franson

Journalists released after arrest at Wet'suwet'en pipeline dispute

A photojournalist and a documentary filmmaker have been released by a B.C. Supreme Court judge, three days after being arrested while covering the RCMP's enforcement of an injunction against pipeline protests in northern British Columbia.

State of Journalism

By Brenna Owen | News, Politics | November 23rd 2021

Young NDP candidates cut their teeth in short campaign

Two of the NDP’s youngest candidates are learning the ropes in Toronto ridings where incumbent politicians seem secure, allowing them to explore the mechanics of electioneering and party politics in their first campaigns.

Election 2021

By Morgan Sharp | News, Politics, Next Gen Insider | September 15th 2021

Wais Habibzai, an Afghan-Canadian property developer seen at Big 5 Dubai Expo at the Canada pavilion in an undated handout photo, has spent $50,000 providing Afghans who have fled the Taliban with essentials. Handout photo by Marques Declou

A 'shining example of Canadian compassion'

A Toronto property developer who has worked tirelessly to help hundreds of people fleeing the Taliban settle in Canada — spending $50,000 to buy them essential supplies — has been praised as a “shining example of Canadian compassion” by the immigration minister.

By Marie Woolf | News, Politics | September 13th 2021

Refugees from Afghanistan and Canadian Citizens board a bus after being processed at Pearson Airport in Toronto, on Tuesday, Aug 17, 2021, after arriving indirectly from Afghanistan. File photo by The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

Ministers forced to explain evacuation efforts in Afghanistan amid dire security challenges

Canada airlifted another 121 people from strife-ridden Afghanistan on Saturday, August 21, 2021, including Canadian citizens and family members as well as Afghan nationals accepted for resettlement by Ottawa and its allies, officials said on Sunday, August 22, 2021.

By Jim Bronskill | News, Politics | August 23rd 2021

Taliban fighters stand guard inside the city of Ghazni, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. Photo by The Associated Press/Gulabuddin Amiri

Canada commits to help fleeing Afghans

The Trudeau government is promising to resettle 20,000 refugees who have already fled Afghanistan even as months of frustration turn to outright fear over the fate of hundreds of former interpreters and their families still stuck in the country.

By Lee Berthiaume | News, Politics | August 14th 2021

Afghan women and children travel in a motorcycle cart during fighting between Taliban and Afghan security forces in Herat province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021. File photo by The Associated Press/Hamed Sarfarazi

Afghan refugees who supported Canadian military mission begin to arrive

The first planeload of Afghan refugees who supported the Canadian military mission in Afghanistan has arrived in Canada.

By The Canadian Press | News, Politics | August 5th 2021

Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, responds to questions in Vancouver, on Wednesday, July 28, 2021. File photo by The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

Inbox crashes for Afghan interpreter resettlement applications

The email address where Afghan interpreters were told to send their application forms under an urgent resettlement plan crashed on Thursday, July 29, 2021, snarling what applicants and Canadian veterans say is an already chaotic process.

By Christopher Reynolds | News, Politics | July 30th 2021

Now Canada's schools draw fewer international students

Many international students have postponed or cancelled their plans to study in Canada since Ottawa decided last month to limit entry options to the country to just four airports and require international travellers to pay for a mandatory hotel quarantine.

Coronavirus in Canada

By Maan Alhmidi | News, Politics | March 27th 2021

airport hotel, Pearson International Airport,

Mandatory quarantine costs for newly arrived refugees paid by government

Newly arriving refugees will have the cost of their mandatory hotel quarantines and COVID-19 tests covered by the federal government.

Coronavirus in Canada

By Stephanie Levitz | News, Politics | February 19th 2021

Five years after call to add Indigenous rights to citizenship guide, nothing

More than five years after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission called on the federal government to revise the Canadian citizenship oath and exam guide, newcomers still study a book that contains a single paragraph on residential schools and they take an oath that doesn't refer to treaties with Indigenous Peoples.

By Maan Alhmidi | News | February 15th 2021

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