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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Warned by police, some of Canada’s Sikhs feel threatened by India
By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters
Twice since July 2022, Moninder Singh, spokesperson for a Sikh advocacy group in Canada’s British Columbia province, has had police come to his door in the Vancouver suburb of Surrey.
Twice, Singh said, they warned him that he faced an imminent risk of assassination, though they did not say from whom.
Canada court orders new hearing in youth-led climate suit
By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters
The court of appeal in Canada’s most populous province ordered a new hearing on Thursday in a youth-led lawsuit claiming Ontario’s climate plan violates young people’s rights.
The ruling – which refuted the lower court’s finding that the case is not governed by Canada’s Charter – sends the case back to a lower court for another hearing meant to determine whether Ontario’s climate target violates their rights and whether to order the province to devise a new target.
Long waits for Canadian visas leave Gazans in limbo
By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters
Reem Alyazouri’s escape from a bombarded Gaza City through Egypt ended in Toronto on Sept. 4.
But as she and her family wrestle with applications for work permits and health insurance, her mother and father remain stuck in Cairo waiting for Canadian visas after fleeing Israel’s war in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza seven months ago.
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