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Gates: US 'should take more' refugees
2016-01-22 10:43:12| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has told the the BBC that the United States should set a better example by taking in more refugees.
VIDEO: Refugees' hopes from global leaders
2016-01-20 01:06:06| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
As world leaders gather in Davos to discuss global challenges like Syria's civil war, what do refugees living in the town want to say to those attending the forum?
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Maple Leaf Foods offers to hire Syrian refugees at plants in Manitoba, Alberta
2016-01-07 21:49:05| Food - Topix.net
Maple Leaf Foods, like others in Canada's meat sector, is dealing with a chronic shortage of employees that has been exacerbated by restrictions placed on the temporary foreign worker program. Maple Leaf Foods Inc. is offering to hire Syrian refugees to fill vacant jobs at two of its meat plants.
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Tuvalu: Meet the Worlds First Climate Refugees
2016-01-05 18:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: "This is a story about people who stand to lose everything--people who may need to flee their native home and never come back. These people are refugees, but they`re not running from war or an oppressive government. They`re seeking asylum from climate change," the narrator of the Seeker Stories episode below explained. Climate refugees are those displaced from their homes due to climate change-induced disasters such as flooding or drought, as well as slow-creeping crises such as sea level rise....
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Canadian Bank Welcomes Syrian Refugees With Special Program
2015-12-16 17:21:18| Grocery - Topix.net
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce's new program aims to help refugees "establish [their] new life in Canada" with two years of unlimited transactions with no monthly fee and the opportunity to get a credit card without income or credit history in certain cases. CIBC and Canada's four other largest banks announced earlier this month that they would collectively give $1 million to the Red Cross to support newly arrived Syrian refugees in Canada.
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