LGBTQ2 refugee activist spreads message of tolerance and equality
By Biko Beauttah, as told to Fiona Irvine-Goulet Biko Beauttah arrived at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport in 2006 as an asylum seeker. Beauttah is transgender, and in her native Kenya, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning...
The sweetest welcome: Syrian refugees bring taste of home to Canada
By Fiona Irvine-Goulet Imagine you’ve just arrived in a foreign country with almost nothing to your name. You know little about this cold land, but at least you speak the language, though it’s not your own. You’re educated and ambitious but have no family or friends...
“Canada’s responsibility to refugees globally must not falter”
Note to readers: This opinion piece was originally published in The Hill Times on 20 Dec 2017. Reprinted with permission. By Jean-Nicolas Beuze, UNHCR Canada representative Just a little over two years ago, three-year-old Alan Kurdi’s tragic death on a Turkish beach...