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Unless you are of Indigenous descent, your family settled in Canada. In honour of Canada Day, we would like to encourage everyone to reflect upon their family's immigration journey. Whether you are 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd or further generation immigrant, you have a personal history of being a newcomer. Knowing we have that shared settlement history with our newest and future Canadians can help us relate, have empathy for their journey and inspire us to provide support to that process, much like...

The advantage of Lived Experience in Helping Others

Sunita Gupta is a student of the SPU-N4 Online Program and has lived the newcomer experience several times over. She exemplifies how the impact of lived experience contributes to the development and implementation of newcomer-centric services. Born in Kenya to a family of immigrants, she moved to India where she lived for ten years without citizenship. Afterward, she moved to the United Kingdom where she and her family were British subjects (similar...

Article from WHO - World Health Organization

This article is part of a series of explainers on vaccine development and distribution. Learn more about vaccines – from how they work and how they’re made to ensuring safety and equitable access – in WHO’s Vaccines Explained series.

Vaccines are supported by decades of medical research. They work by preparing the body's own immune system to recognize and defend against a specific disease. The volume of information available about vaccination...

rainbowrailroad.org · Toronto, ON

Rainbow Railroad is global not-for-profit organization that helps LGBTQI+ people facing persecution based on their sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics. In a time when there are more displaced people than ever before, LGBTQI+ people are uniquely vulnerable due to systemic, state-enabled homophobia and transphobia. These factors either displace them in their own country or prevent them from escaping harm.

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June marks Pride Month in Canada, a time for us all to examine our role in creating equity for LGBTQ+ people.  Unfortunately, not all countries embrace these values. Global statistics reflect the increasing levels of violence against minority sexual orientation and gender identity expression (SOGIE) populations. This has resulted in increasing numbers of asylum seekers from the LGBTQ+ community. Canada has made substantial progress in recognizing the intersectional vulnerabilities of LGBTQ2S+...