Why Award-winning Writer Kim Thuy Always Has Time for Another Refugee
Why Award-winning Writer Kim Thuy Always Has Time for Another RefugeeSeptember 12, 2014 2:06 pmKim Thuy has a laugh that bubbles with joy, but she has seen her fair share of sorrow. At the age of 10, she remembers the adventure and the fear in the journey from Viet Nam to Canada. Below deck, her family was crowded in among 200 other people escaping on the boat. She knew […]

 

Doctors Protest Changes to the Interim Federal Health program
Doctors Protest Changes to the Interim Federal Health programIn April 2012 the Canadian government made restrictive changes to the Interim Federal Health program, which covers refuges in Canada. It went into effect on June 30th with the proviso that government assisted refugees would not be affected. Doctors and healthcare staff have found the new program a disaster, from the medical viewpoint and the […]Read More
Sabine Venturelli: The Highs and Lows of Practising Refugee Law
Sabine Venturelli: The Highs and Lows of Practising Refugee LawSabine Venturelli was born in France, the daughter of an Italian immigrant. She remembers feeling ostracized because of her father’s immigrant status. When Sabine immigrated to Montreal, she originally wanted to practice international law. Then she met a refugee from Lebanon, and she found her calling. Over the years she has helped many refugees prove […]Read More

 

 

The History of our Refugee System
The History of our Refugee SystemWe often hear Canada described as a country of immigrants. The Aboriginal First Nations are the original inhabitants; everyone else arrived over the last 500 Many were refugees, escaping persecution and harsh conditions in their homelands. But it was not until 1976 and the adoption of a new Immigration Act that refugees were recognized as […]Read More
Leslie Oliver – Descendant of refugees fleeing slavery in the United States in 1814
Leslie Oliver – Descendant of refugees fleeing slavery in the United States in 1814It was Leslie Oliver’s mother who traced her husband’s family history and kept it alive. She was searching for more information on Adeline, the wife of Moses Oliver. The couple had endured a life of slavery on a plantation in Maryland in the United States. In 1814, the British, engaged in a war with the […]Read More