immigrants

NeverHome – refugees in Canada, & Aylan Kurdi, the child who never made it here

September 3, 2015

NeverHome – refugees in Canada, & Aylan Kurdi, the child who never made it here

“Between 2010 and 2014, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees found that Canada dropped from fifth to fifteenth in the list of refugee-receiving industrialized countries.”

This fact about Canada’s failure to take in its share of refugees, and about the way it imprisons refugees in Canada for years on end, with children being born and growing up in jail, comes from the excellent website NeverHome.ca.

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Chan family house in 1950s Vancouver

January 30, 2009

Chan family house in 1950s Vancouver

These photographs are from my husband grandparents’ house, a blue Edwardian two-storey that still stands in Strathcona, Vancouver’s oldest residential neighbourhood. The house is less than a block away from our studio and very close to where we both live.

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