The Devouring: Can there be a stronger word in the English language to depict sheer horror and utter helplessness? This is the translation of the Roma word, Porajmos. The Romani people, more conventionally known as Gypsies, use this word to describe the genocide they endured during the Second World War; a genocide yet to be recognized officially by either Canada or the United Nations [...]

The Toronto Roma Commumity Centre presents for Holocaust Remembrance

A People Uncounted
Free Admission

August 2, 2016
6 PM -8:30 PM

Roma asylum-seekers who were deported back to Hungary deserve to finally get a fair hearing in Canada, says Jennifer Danch, a Toronto law student and Roma refugee advocate. Danch made a five-month trip to Hungary to see what has become of the asylum-seekers, and she says they now face double discrimination [...]

In a major blow to the Harper government, the Federal Court has ruled that denying appeals to refugees from countries on Canada’s so-called “safe countries” list is unconstitutional [...]

Teachers rose to the challenge of helping spirited Roma kids shed a legacy of prejudice and embrace education, only to see Ottawa force them away [...]

Protests in 19 Canadian cities Monday urged the Canadian government to reverse cutbacks to refugee health care [...]

Photographer Chad Evans Wyatt, shocked by how Roma were portrayed in the Czech media, decided to find Roma who defied the stereotypes and present a different portrait [...]

On February 17, 2012, in Ottawa, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney was discussing the arrival of one group of refugee claimants, most of whom are Hungarian. He was not pleased. “Our government is very disturbed by the recent rise in requests from democratic countries that respect human rights,” he remarked. “The rising number of bogus requests from democratic states of the European Union just makes this problem worse.” Kenney first used the term “bogus” in 2009 to describe Roma claimants and has favoured it ever since. He inspired the Toronto Sun to run this headline on October 27, 2011: “Feds vow crackdown as Pearson flooded with bogus Hungarian Roma claims [...]

Roma children from three Parkdale schools celebrate their culture in song and dance.

Erika Pintyo is a child and youth worker at Parkdale Collegiate. She invited me to the school recently, to attend a Roma Day assembly [...]

OTTAWA - An advocate for Roma refugee claimants says "Gypsy fiction" is fanning the same kind of discrimination in Canada that her ancestors have faced for centuries in Europe [...]

Parkdale Collegiate Institute students bring a message to the Minister of Immigration

A small group of Parkdale Collegiate Institute (PCI) students used a chance meeting in Ottawa to take the government to task over what they say is discrimination toward people of Roma origin [...]