November 27, 2018 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Reuters
A Syrian man who spent seven months stranded in a Malaysian airport arrived in Canada this week, ending a months-long ordeal that highlighted asylum seekers’ often bizarre quest for refuge.
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Canada set to get most refugee claims in nearly three decades
November 16, 2018 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Reuters
Canada is on track to receive its highest number of refugee claims since record-keeping began nearly three decades ago, the latest data shows, as the government’s handling of immigration comes under scrutiny ahead of next year’s federal election.
Canada’s immigration detention reviews stacked against detainees: audit
July 20, 2018 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Reuters
Canada’s immigration detention system relies on faulty information and is stacked against detainees, many of whom lack lawyers and are penalized for having severe mental illness, an audit as found.
New Canadians love Quebec; they just can’t work there: Why immigrants are leaving La Belle Province
Fahimeh Sinai and Peyman Rajabian as they prepare to leave their Montreal apartment. Christinne Muschi/Globe and Mail
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY – Globe and Mail, Dec. 21, 2012
In the three years since Fahimeh Sinai and Peyman Rajabian left Iran for a new life in Montreal, they have accomplished a lot – earning graduate degrees, touring the Gaspé and obtaining provincially funded therapy for their toddler son. They applied for citizenship as soon as they were eligible.
But they applied from Calgary.
At the end of September, the couple crammed into their sedan with son and belongings to make the long drive west. They had neither jobs nor a place to live. But they were sure it was the right decision.
Omar Khadr: Confessed jihadist, Hunger Games fan
Janet Hamlin
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY
October 2, 2012 – Globe and Mail
Curricula for convicted terrorists aren’t the stuff of everyday academia.
So when Omar Khadr’s U.S. legal team asked Arlette Zinck, an English professor at King’s University College in Edmonton, to design and deliver a lesson plan for the Guantanamo Bay detainee, she and her colleagues had their work cut out for them.
Whisked from Guantanamo Bay to Millhaven Institution, Omar Khadr tries to learn the ropes
Janet Hamlin
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY AND COLIN FREEZE
October 1, 2012 – Globe and Mail
Eleven months after Canada pledged to bring him back from Guantanamo Bay, Omar Khadr’s fate is in the hands of prison officials as the convicted terrorist tries to learn the rules in a home he can’t remember.
The pre-dawn flight via American military aircraft on Saturday that brought the 26-year-old to Ontario from the U.S. naval base where he was imprisoned for nine years and 11 months came as a surprise to Mr. Khadr, his lawyers and his family, who learned of it from television news.
Omar Khadr in Canadian prison after return from Guantanamo Bay
Janet Hamlin
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY
September 29, 2012 – Globe and Mail
For the first time in 10 years and three months, Omar Khadr’s fate rests outside the hands of politicians and military personnel.
Toronto-born Mr. Khadr left Guantanamo Bay’s detention centre in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday morning via U.S. military aircraft. He set foot on Canadian soil just over three hours later.
Inmate, AIDS prevention groups take Ottawa to court over prison needle exchanges
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY
September 25, 2012 – Globe and Mail
The federal government is being sued for not providing clean needles to inmates in prisons – something the former inmate and advocacy groups behind the suit argue not only violates offenders’ right to health care but makes a public health problem worse.
Fire quenched, potash miners trapped underground emerge in Saskatchewan
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE – Rocanville, SK
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY and PAV JORDAN – Toronto
September 25, 2012 – Globe and Mail
Darwyn Wirth was driving down a mine travelway a kilometre beneath the Saskatchewan prairie when he saw fire.
It was, he said, “a fairly large ball of flame.” Something had gone wrong deep inside the mine workings at Potash Corp’s Rocanville mine.
Manaslu avalanche: Sister of missing Quebec climber Dominique Ouimet desperate for news as crews suspend search
ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY
September 24, 2012 – Globe and Mail
Isabelle Ouimet’s younger brother is lost in snow and ice 6,800 metres above sea level and she doesn’t know who will decide whether to keep looking for him.
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