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Al Jafiliya (Arabic: الجافلية), also written Jafilia is a community in Dubai, United Arab Emirates primarily composed of private residential dwellings but also including Dubai's Department of Naturalization and Residency, Rydges Plaza Hotel and Al Hana Center shopping mall. [2]
The Canadian Centre for Refugee and Immigrant Health Care is a healthcare clinic in Scarborough, Toronto, that provides free healthcare to refugee and immigrants. [1] [2] [3] The centre, which opened in 1999, is led by Paul Caulford M.D. As of 2021 it had 70 healthcare professionals providing care.
In 2007, the Ministry of Citizenship of Immigration was accused of using immigrant aid money as a slush fund by directing it to groups with strong Liberal ties. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Ontario Auditor General probed $32 million of spending over a 2-year period and found no direct evidence of money flowing due to political ties, but that political ties ...
The largest group of Ethiopians in Canada is that of Toronto.In the 2016 census, there were 17,730 people who reported their ethnic origin as Ethiopian (15,990), Amhara (500), Oromo (830) and/or Tigrinya (410) in the Toronto CMA. [7]
During World War I, Middle Eastern Canadians of Turkish origin were placed in "enemy alien" internment camps. [4]The Middle Eastern Canadian population grew rapidly during the latter half of the 20th century; the 1979 Iranian Revolution resulted in a spike of immigration to Canada from the West Asian country.
Mario D. Bellissimo is the founder of Bellissimo Law Group Professional Corporation, setting up its head office in Toronto. [4] He graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School and became a Certified Specialist in Citizenship and Immigration Law and Refugee Protection. [5]
Immigration laws were liberalized after the Second World War, and immigration steadily increased in the 1950s and 1960s. The greatest influx of Lebanese was during the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990), and this period saw a number of Lebanon's wealthiest and best educated move to Canada to flee the violence in their homeland.
Tirone E. David, cardiac surgeon and professor of surgery at the University of Toronto. Known for developing the "David Operation”. Tony Clement, Canadian Member of Parliament from Parry Sound-Muskoka. Mother of Syrian descent. [12] Moshe Safdie, architect who designed Marina Bay Sands and Jewel Changi Airport