Local organizations working to bring more people to Canada to help relieve pressure and provide shelter
The world is watching in horror as the image of a young boy — Alan Kurdi — face down and dead on a Mediterranean shoreline, flashes across screens and screams out from newspaper front pages, bringing the ongoing Middle East refugee crisis into sharp relief.
Immigration Minister Chris Alexander has temporarily suspended his re-election campaign to deal with the crisis a day after defending the government’s handling of the crisis while blaming the media for a lack of coverage.
Mayor Naheed Nenshi, speaking on Thursday, lashed out at what he sees as “the mean-spiritedness that seems to have snuck into our political discourse.”
Categories: Americas, Arab World, Canada