Toronto has been struggling to house refugees coming to the city. Churches and other NGOs have had to step up to fill the void of an overcrowded shelter system, but city staff say the problem isn’t going anywhere.
Refugees make up 40 per cent of Toronto shelter spaces, but hundreds are turned away each day as temperatures drop.
Tibetan refugees first arrived in Canada in the early 1970s. Subsequent cohorts arrived after the late 1990s and in 2013. According to the 2021 Canadian censu…
About 50 refugee claimants arrive in Windsor on Friday, as Immigration. Refugees and Citizenship tries to ease strain on the number of refugees coming into the Greater Toronto Area.
Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Marc Miller, met with Mayor Olivia Chow in her city hall office for a little over an hour on Tuesday.