The federal government will soon require sponsored refugees and asylum seekers to co-pay for their health-care coverage.

MONTRÉAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In a time of rising anti-immigrant sentiment and divisive rhetoric among some leaders, today, the Canadian Council for Refugees along with unions, NGOs and human rights ...

They will have to pay 30 per cent of the costs of services such as dental, optometry and physiotherapy and a $4 flat rate on ...

OTTAWA, Canada, November 15 (UNHCR) - Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Erika Feller learned about the challenges of integration in Canada during a meeting in an Ottawa reception centre with ...

In the past year, the Republican presidential field has demonized refugees, with some candidates vowing to oppose even five-year-old orphans from Syria. Meanwhile, dozens of Republican governors have ...

Phan Thị Kim Phuc, the girl in the famous 1972 Vietnam napalm attack photo, is escorting 236 refugees from the war in Ukraine on a flight from Warsaw to Canada. Phuc's iconic Associated Press photo in ...

OTTAWA — Former immigration minister Lloyd Axworthy, a prominent global champion for refugees, said he believes Canada is putting its reputation as a welcoming place for refugees at risk through ...

Jean-Nicolas Beuze, the representative in Canada of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees revealed this in an interview. Most of the hundreds of people streaming over the US border into ...

Canada offers new lease of life to Afghan refugees in Central Asia Nearly 2,000 refugees who cannot return to Afghanistan could be resettled in Canada through programmes between UNHCR and the Canadian ...