Refugee advocates are trying to reopen the cases of hundreds of Roma families who were denied refugee status in Canada after being bilked by lawyers, some of whom were later disbarred. But those who have already been deported have little chance of having their cases reviewed.

Shifting government-sponsored Syrian refugees to private sponsors who are able to house them immediately is one way the federal government is trying to ease a backlog that has left refugees lingering in hotels while settlement agencies struggle to find housing in tight real estate markets.

Health professionals who ask patients about their pets gain important information that can lead to better care for those people, new research shows.

A mere 50 km north of the sprawling Greater Toronto Area lies a small Greek Orthodox convent that runs on the devotion and elbow grease of just four nuns, who keep it going with a cottage industry that turns out beeswax candles, baked goods and custom-sewn vestments.

A Saskatchewan coroner has refused to allow the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies to participate in the upcoming inquest into the death of Kinew James, an aboriginal woman who died in a federal prison hospital in Saskatoon.

Two Muslim inmates have filed complaints with the Canadian Human Rights Commission over their treatment at Grande Cache Institution, a federal prison in northwestern Alberta.