The Kurdis wanted only for options, safety and reunion
Nancy Macdonald talks to the family at the heart of the tragedy that has focused the world’s attention
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Election Issues 2015: A Maclean’s primer on Syrian refugees
Maclean’s is your destination for the 2015 election. Start with our in-depth primers on the big issues, including Syrian refugees
A refugee crisis is only half the story in Syria
Michael Petrou on why it’s time to confront our original failure in Syria: allowing Bashar al-Assad’s reign of terror to continue
The Syrian refugee tragedy becomes a political battleground
After crisis meetings, Stephen Harper makes the crisis part of his campaign. Paul Wells reports from B.C.
For the record: Stephen Harper on Syrian refugees
A transcript of Stephen Harper’s statement about the death of Alan Kurdi and his family at a B.C. campaign stop
His name was Alan Kurdi
Jonathon Gatehouse on a photograph that should trouble everyone who has stood by and watched Syria’s refugee crisis unfold
Transcript: Chris Alexander’s CBC response on Syrian refugees
A full transcript of the heated exchange on CBC’s Power & Politics Wednesday night between host Rosemary Barton and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander
Why Canada should take in 20 times more refugees
In Canada, ’thinking big’ often means thinking a little less small. Scott Gilmore on why the image of a drowned Syrian boy must shock us into action
For some, Kos is a holiday island. For Syrian refugees, it’s a waiting room.
On the small Greek island of Kos, a wave of desperate migrants were met by European sunbathers, weary locals and totally unprepared officials
Inside the Syrian refugee crisis
The stories of two families who left everything behind in Syria to chase a better life only to be part of the worst refugee crisis since the Second World War