At least 10,000 Syrian refugees are expected to come to Canada under private sponsorships (in addition to the 25,000 the Liberals say the government will sponsor). Nancy Addison, a retired teacher, is sponsoring three of those refugees to move to Jasper, Alberta, a small town in the Rockies. We speak to her and Gail Millard, the refugee coordinator for the Anglican Diocese of Edmonton, who connects sponsors to applicants. Farah Malik, a Pakistani refugee who came to Canada about three years ago, talks about abandoning her family and friends back home. UPDATE – We asked Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada for a response to Farah Malik’s charges that they regularly lose applications and people have to pay to re-submit. Their response reads, in part: “Sometimes applicants disregard the instructions which appear on our website which explain how to submit an application — for instance applicants may try to mail a paper application directly to an Embassy. In this scenario the application may not reach the correct address or appropriate visa section. Applicants may also attempt to apply online but fail to complete the process properly. In this scenario no application will be received and the client will not receive an acknowledgement of receipt. All applications which are submitted to a visa office correctly – either paper applications submitted via a VAC or online – are tracked by the visa office using a data base. Visa office staff are able to query for applications using the electronic data base on a daily basis and determine which require action using several variables – such as the date the application was received, whether requested documents or a medical result has been received or when biometric results were entered.”

This is the story of Canada’s first-ever video game union. And the lengths that the industry went to try to stop it in its tracks

The huge rise in international students in Canada — most of them from Punjab, India — has become one of the biggest stories in the country.

She expected to face opposition from tech companies and governments that are hostile to workers. But what she didn’t anticipate was that one of the biggest obstacles in her path would be a labour union. 

Mandalena Lewis is one of far too many flight attendants who have been harassed or assaulted on the job. And her story is just one example of a culture of sexism and abuse that she alleges pervades the airline industry.

In 2006, Zakaria Amara was arrested and imprisoned for planning what could have been one of the deadliest terror attacks in Canadian history. A ringleader of the so-called “Toronto 18,” he’s one of the most infamous Canadian convicts of the last few decades. 

♩♪ But Spotify, it’s nearly killed us Ticketmaster’s ground us to dust The companies got too large Now monopolies are in charge ♩♪

Not only do Canadian prisoners work for for-profit businesses, but they’re sometimes doing the most dangerous and nauseating work around