Category: Focus

The immigration department can be more of a hindrance than a help to newcomers settling in Canada, critics say, adding that it is responsible for poor quality service, over-stretched waiting times and mounting frustration among immigration claimants.

Maunir Louis spends 12 hours a day at the wheel of his taxi. It’s difficult and demanding work: he has chronic back problems, but can’t afford to take enough time off to get the rest he needs.

Teachers with the Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada program (LINC), the free English training for immigrants, want their students to get the language training they need.

Every second Sunday, the McNabb commmunity centre on Percy Street is redolent with the smell of home-cooked curry . . .