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As of April 1st the total number of immigration detainees held in all three of Canada’s immigration holding centres dropped to 64 from 98 https://www.google.ca//coronavirus-immigration-detain/amp/

When Ben Affleck agreed to take part in the PBS documentary series "Finding Your Roots," he probably never imagined he'd learn that one of his ancestors was a slave owner.

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What do you have in your kitchen pantry? Fascinating assortment reflects diversity of Toronto https://www.thestar.com//a-peek-inside-covid-19-pantries-a

Canada welcomed the highest number of new immigrants in more than a century last year, opening its doors to 341,180 people from 175 different countries. That an...nual total, which exceeded Ottawa’s target of 330,000, was topped only twice before in 1913, when 401,000 new immigrants arrived in the country, and 1912, when 376,000 settled here. The vast majority back then came from Europe as a result of this country’s campaign for newcomers to settle in Western Canada. See more

For six years, Ali Mesgarzadeh lived in limbo in the United States, unable to return to his home and family in Tehran during the turmoil of the Iranian Revoluti...on and later the Iran-Iraq War. Then Canada opened its doors. People leave because of war, economic situations and political persecution. No one wants to leave their home if they had a good life and a good job, said the 62-year-old Toronto man, who joined his sister and moved to Canada in 1987 after finishing an engineering degree in Chicago and finding himself an unwelcome guest in the U.S. I never felt I belonged there, but I feel I’m home in Canada. I belong here. When Mesgarzadeh and his three business partners all immigrants who fled chaos in Iran in the 1980s saw a City of Toronto notice looking for a site for a temporary refugee shelter, they immediately responded and offered the decommissioned Toronto Hydro building on eight acres of land they’d just bought on Yonge St., north of Finch Ave.