Canada refugee claims drop as country issues fewer visas

February 18, 2025March 8, 2025amp Leave a comment

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Refugee claims in Canada are dropping from historic highs as the country grants fewer visas and advocates worry legitimate claimants are being left stranded with few good options.

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Canada pledges beefed-up border, immigration restrictions to appease Trump

December 17, 2024March 8, 2025amp Leave a comment

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

TORONTO, Dec 17 (Reuters) – Four Canadian ministers publicly unveiled on Tuesday a border security plan they had privately presented to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump‘s incoming administration, with an emphasis on surveillance, intelligence and technology.

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Canada promised Trump a border crackdown. Easier said than done.

December 16, 2024January 12, 2025amp Leave a comment

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Six Lego-like concrete blocks mark the end of a rural road at the U.S.-Canada border. The police vehicle, revving through blowing snow, crunches to a stop.

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Canada pulls refugee welcome mat, launches ads warning asylum claims hard

December 2, 2024January 12, 2025amp Leave a comment

Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Once presenting itself as one of the world’s most welcoming countries to refugees and immigrants, Canada is launching a global online ad campaign cautioning asylum-seekers that making a claim is hard.

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Canada hints at fast-tracking refugee refusals

November 26, 2024January 12, 2025amp Leave a comment

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Canada’s immigration minister says he plans to propose measures to reform the country’s refugee system, potentially fast-tracking refusals of cases deemed to have little chance of succeeding.

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Canadian neurosurgeons seek six patients for Musk’s Neuralink brain study

November 22, 2024January 12, 2025amp Leave a comment

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Canadian neurosurgeons in partnership with Elon Musk’s Neuralink have regulatory approval to recruit six patients with paralysis willing to have a thousand electrode contacts in their brains.

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Teen in critical condition with Canada’s first presumptive human case of bird flu

November 12, 2024January 12, 2025amp Leave a comment

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

A teenager is in critical condition in a British Columbia children’s hospital, sick with Canada’s first presumptive human case of avian influenza.

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Canadian police brace for ‘worst-case scenario’ of asylum-seekers fleeing Trump

November 8, 2024November 10, 2024amp Leave a comment

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Canadian police and migrant aid groups are bracing for an influx of asylum-seekers fleeing President-elect Donald Trump’s United States at the same time Canada deals with record numbers of refugee claimants and is trying to bring in fewer immigrants.

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Canada judge who headed residential school abuse investigation dies

November 4, 2024November 10, 2024amp Leave a comment

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

The judge and senator who chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into Canadian residential schools’ abuse of Indigenous children has died. He was 73.

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Canada should have acted sooner on migration, minister says

October 25, 2024November 2, 2024amp Leave a comment

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

The Canadian government should have acted sooner to stem the flow of temporary migration into the country, Immigration Minister Marc Miller told Reuters on Friday.

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