Ola Al Abbas, a 19-year-old student, came to B.C. with her six sisters, two brothers and her parents. At first, she hated school and had difficulty understanding classes and making friends.
Raghda Hassan, with her hair tucked into an immaculate white scarf, is preparing to make Knafeh, a Arabic cheese-based dessert enveloped with a crunchy vermicelli style dough and pistachio nuts on top.
On Wednesday night, about forty refugees got the cultural experience of a lifetime as they climbed over the visitors’ bench to take the ice at Rogers Arena.
The Liberal government is struggling to track the impact of its historic effort to resettle upwards of 40,000 Syrian refugees, the federal auditor general concluded on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, in his fall report.
The portrayal of Canada's diversity on television has improved over the last decade, but there's still a lack of programming representing people with disabilities and the Indigenous population.
"It drives me crazy because I would have loved to have them in my own house," says one Boston resident, who has raised money and found Canadians to sponsor a Syrian refugee.
Maryam Herro, a young Syrian refugee, said last fall that she felt no Islamophobia in Canada despite the rise of the 'alt-right.' That's since changed.