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REFUGEE CRISIS

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Border Security Minister Bill Blair announced on Friday that the federal government will be giving Ottawa $7 million to help alleviate the costs of temporary housing for refugee claimants.

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  1. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gives newly-arrived Syrian refugee Sylvie Garabedian, centre, a winter jacket as her mother Anjilik Jaghlassian, right, looks on at Pearson International airport, in Toronto, on Friday, Dec. 11, 2015. Trudeau says it's his job to beam words and images around the country and the world, but the exercise isn't just about broadcasting — it's about tuning in his receiver.The Liberal prime minister has garnered global attention, and not a little partisan grousing at home, with his sky-high public profile and media courtship since winning office in the Oct. 19 election. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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  3. Files: Pearson Airport's Terminal, Canadian Customs and Immigration
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  4. Ben Rand and his father Marc Rand are welcoming refugees into their home in Ottawa South.
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  5. Bedroom at Maison Sophia the refugee resettlement house in the Byward Market
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  1. Advanced English class student, Soukaina Oleik, left, has a laugh with her teacher, Brenda Windmill, right, at a school run by the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization. Settlement agencies say they'll need more money for teachers, counsellors and other to help the wave of Syrian refugees about to arrive in Ottawa.
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  3. Shirley O'Connell is appealing to the knitting community to help make crocheted Izzy Dolls (www.izzydoll.ca) for refugee children when they arrive in Canada.
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  4. Migrants and refugees board a train, after crossing the Greek-Macedonian border, near Gevgelija on October 6, 2015. Macedonia is a key transit country in the Balkans migration route into the European Union, with thousands of asylum seekers and migrants - many of them from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia - entering the country every day. The EU said a controversial programme to relocate 40,000 refugees within the bloc from overstretched frontline states would formally start on October 9 when a group of Eritreans will travel to Sweden from Italy.
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  5. A Syrian refugee arrives on the shore of the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey, on Monday.
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  6. Ninette Kelley, regional representative for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Lebanon, a Canadian originally from Toronto, appears with Syrian refugee children in a handout photo.
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  1. Refugees and migrants arrive on Eftalou beach, west of the port of Mytilene, on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey on September 21, 2015. Europe's migrant crisis took centre-stage at the UN human rights council, as European states said the need to end the conflict in Syria was at an all-time high.
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  3. Syrian refugees arrive on the shores of the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey on an inflatable dinghy , Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015.
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  4. Faisal Alazem, of the Syrian Canadian Council, appears at a news conference in this file photo.
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  5. Barb Gamble, left, and Sue Pike, were involved in Project 4000, which saw 4,000 Southeast Asian refugees relocate to Ottawa in 1979 and the early 1980s.
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  6. Syrian refugee Raed Alabdou, 24, holds his one-month-old daughter, Roa'a, while he and his wife hide in a field from Hungarian police after they crossed the Serbian-Hungarian border near Roszke, southern Hungary, Friday, Sept. 11, 2015.
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  1. Syrian refugees arrive aboard a dinghy after crossing from Turkey, on the island of Lesbos, Greece on Monday.
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  3. A refugee hold a child as she walks on a platform after getting out of a special train coming from Munich upon arrival at the railway station in Berlin Schoenefeld on September 13, 2015. Around 700 migrants were sent from Munich as the Bavarian city is at the limit of its capacity to welcome refugees arriving en masse in Germany, police warned Sunday, a day after 13,000 asylum-seekers reached the city. AFP PHOTO / AXEL SCHMIDTAXEL SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images
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  4. Syrian refugees and migrants along a railway line as they try to cross from Serbia into Hungary near Horgos on September 1, 2015. European Union leaders called for action to defend the "dignity" of migrants ahead of fresh emergency talks, as tensions flared on the bloc's eastern borders over the escalating crisis.
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  5. Former prime minister Jean Chrétien spoke to journalists after delivering an energetic speech to Liberal supporters gathered to open the campaign office of Mauril Belanger, the party’s candidate in Ottawa-Vanier.
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  6. The sun rises as refugees and migrants walk to pass from the northern Greek village of Idomeni to southern Macedonia, Friday, Sept. 11, 2015. The sudden onset of autumn has taken tens of thousands by surprise all along the Balkans route from Greece to Hungary, the main gateway to Western Europe for more than 160,000 asylum seekers already this year. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos) / 0912 col fisher ORG XMIT: POS2015091113274581 ORG XMIT: POS1509111333272994
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