OTTAWA – After two weeks of sustained pressure to do more for the victims of conflict in Syria, Stephen Harper’s government announced Saturday that Canada will provide $100 million in additional humanitarian assistance for the millions of Syrians crammed into refugee camps.A second announcement — to speed up the tortuously slow process of resettling refugees in Canada — is expected within a few days.Four million people have fled Syria since civil war broke out in 2011 but it wasn’t until Sept. 2 that the crisis pierced Canadians’ consciousness, when the image of a dead Syrian toddler on a Turkish beach …read more
Source: National Newswatch
