Canadian immigration policy

Protest Not Pride on World Refugee Day in Canada

Natascia Lypny — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:54:09 +0000

No One Is Illegal’s Ninotchka Sequeira explains the impacts of Canada’s changing refugee policies

On this World Refugee Day, Canada is no place for celebration. Two recent refugee policy changes have made Canada less inviting to those looking to make this country their new, safe home.

Chaudhrys Finally Allowed to Call Halifax Home

bsichel — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:51:30 +0000

Community support helps family of 5 stay in Canada after 8-year ordeal

In recent months, 10-year-old Rukhna Roouf Chaudhry would sometimes ask her father about her family’s immigration status.

“Sometimes I’d discuss a little bit, sometimes I say everything is good,” says Chaudhry Roouf Ahmad.

Paola Ortiz deportation: A Canadian disgrace

Isabel — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 18:34:34 +0000

Despite public outcry, officials turn blind eye to danger mother of two faces from abusive ex in Mexico

On Friday, Sept. 23, Canada deported Paola Ortiz, the mom of two Canadian citizen kids, aged 2 and 4, to Mexico, a country she fled in 2006 to escape sexual abuse and domestic violence at the hands of her then-financé, a federal Mexican police officer.