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Black-led church, which is calling for volunteers, is 3rd in Toronto to step up A view of a room at Pilgrim Feast Tabernacles in Etobicoke. The church is providing temporary shelter for asylum seekers. (Oliver Walters/CBC) Another Toronto church has stepped up to provide temporary emergency shelter to asylum seekers as the city continues ...

Toronto mayor, Ontario premier want feds to speed up system for asylum seekers to get jobs Asylum seekers line up as volunteers from the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention hand out food, water and supplies. Staff at agencies providing services to refugee claimants say their clients are typically waiting anywhere from ...

Mayor Olivia Chow welcomes $97M in funding but says it ‘will not meet the needs’ of refugees in Toronto Refugees had been sleeping on the street in front of a Toronto shelter intake office for weeks, after the city said it could no longer cope with the high number of claimants ...

On her first full day in office, Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow says the refugee crisis spilling over onto the city’s streets is one of the first items on her agenda. “I’ll be meeting my chief of staff of course and getting a briefing on TTC, meeting some councillors, doing some paperwork, and really ...

In 2002, Mwai Kibaki became Kenya’s third president, a transition that ignited a surge of hope among Kenyans. President Kibaki’s ascension brought renewed optimism and ignited a flame of economic aspiration. In the early days of his presidency, interest rates for government loans dropped to about two per cent thus forcing ...