Immigration News
Immigrant Access Fund! Information About Micro-Loans! For Internationally Trained Immigrants!
Immigrant Access Fund Canada supports newcomers who arrive in our country equipped with excellent professional skills and knowledge but face significant barriers to employment. Often they fall into poverty as they become stuck in unemployment or low paying “survival” jobs. As they lack...
Information about Refugee Settlement in Regina! RODS Annual Report!
2015-2016 has been an unprecendented year for Newcomer Settlement in Regina! The 2015-2016 Annual Report from Regina Open Door Society (RODS), the Regina organization responsible for settling Government Assisted Refugees (GARs) in Regina, is very informative. The Syrian Initiative,...
Follow-up Information About Heritage Language Funding - Questions at the Legislature!
Update on Petition to Restore Heritage Language Funding (from Saskatchewan Organization of Heritage Languages - SOHL) Thank you to everyone who has sent in signed petition forms thus far. With your help, we have collected an impressive number of signatures. Though the Legislative Assembly is...
Warning! Telephone Scam Targeting Newcomers! In Regina!
A Regina immigrant newcomer recently received a phone call from a person claiming to be a police officer, calling in relation to CIC immigration. An ESL student, he had a hard time understanding the conversation, so asked for help from his LINC teacher (Language Instruction for Newcomers)....
World Refugee Day! 8 Young Refugees Now Living in Regina Awarded Education Bursaries!
21 Jun 2016 by Natascia Lypny Leader-Post Bishnu Kafley lived for a dozen years in a refugee camp in Nepal. Now she has her sights set on becoming a doctor. Emmerence Bagenda bounced from school to school as her family hopped from country to country after leaving the Democratic Republic...
2016 World Refugee Day Event! Free! City Square Plaza! June 20th - Noon - 1pm!
Ordinary people, forced to FLEE! On Monday, June 20th, 2016 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m., the Regina Open Door Society will be hosting the 2016 World Refugee Day event. Please join us at the City Square Plaza - Stage at noon. The program will include a special guest speaker, the newcomer...
Researcher Exploring Health Care Challenges for Senior Immigrants!
11 Jun 2016 by Ashley Martin Leader-Post Somayeh Faghanipour is a young woman, but she is an immigrant. That gives her some context for her PhD research into immigrant seniors’ access to health care. Somayeh Faghanipour of the University of Toronto is exploring challenges faced by new...
Callers Using Premier Wall's Name to Try to Scam Regina Residents!
3 Jun 2016 by Brian Fitzpatrick - with files from D.C. Fraser Leader-Post Premier Brad Wall’s office has warned that any callers claiming to be the premier or part of his team are not who they claim to be, after a Regina resident in her 70s was left a voice mail by an apparent scammer who...
Beautiful Feet Ministries! Taking Supplies to Zambia!
7 May 2016 by Darlene Polachic Leader-Post BIBLES FOR ZAMBIANS Clair Ziolkowski, founder of Beautiful Feet Ministries, will take 2,400 of these pillowcase dresses, sewn by volunteers across Saskatchewan, to Zambia later this year for girls in orphanages. Clair Ziolkowski’s first...
Refugee Story - Boxing for Canada!
14 May 2016 by Greg Harder Leader-Post Arthur Biyarslanov has been boxing for 8½ years, but his fight began much earlier. Team Canada’s Arthur Biyarslanov trains at the Regina Boxing Club in advance of Friday’s Ken Goff Memorial Boxing Classic.The Chechen refugee was forced to abandon...
