Government alone won’t hit Liberal refugee target
The Liberals confirm it aims to hit its target of 25,000 Syrian refugees by year’s end through both government and private sponsorship
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Cold comfort: The trials of Sweden’s Syrian refugees
Syrian refugees find themselves lonely, and perplexed, at the Arctic Circle
Scott Gilmore faces his harshest critics
Our columnist called up some of the angriest opponents of his refugee plan. Underneath the abuse, he found, were some legitimate fears.
Roméo Dallaire: Response to Syrian refugees ’atrocious’
Roméo Dallaire, commander of an ill-fated UN mission in Rwanda, on the un-Canadian response to refugees and the missed opportunities for intervention
’A Princess Diana moment’: David Frum on refugees and response
The Canadian-born author tells Evan Solomon why he thinks politicians are failing in their duty to protect, and that Europe should close its harbours
How the refugee crisis went from burden to boon for Stephen Harper
What initially seemed a miscalculation on Syrian refugees may work out to Conservatives’ advantage. Paul Wells explains why.
The government must bring refugees to Canada. And so must we.
Privately sponsored? Government-assisted? It doesn’t really matter how refugees get to Canada. It just matters that more of them do.
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.
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