Meet the Canadian CEO sponsoring and hiring refugees
“I try to do better every day.” By Lauren La Rose Meet the homegrown entrepreneur giving hundreds of refugees a fresh start in Canada. “Do the right thing” is much more to Jim Estill than his appliance company’s corporate tagline: it’s a personal motto that has guided...
Opinion: Why cities need to stand with refugees
By Jean-Nicolas Beuze, UNHCR Canada Representative Most images of refugees profile life in camps, filled with makeshift tents made of plastic sheets. Women with infants are pictured in health clinics run by humanitarian organizations. Sometimes, images of children...
Persecuted and uprooted, a young Yemeni finds safe haven in Canada
Mohammed arrived in Québec through Roxham Road, fleeing the world’s worst humanitarian disaster. By Emmanuelle Paciullo in Montreal, Canada “I was welcomed in Canada with much respect and dignity. I felt a strong emotion, a mixture of fear and relief – unsure what lay...