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Canada's border agency is seeing an uptick this year, but officials are hesitant to call it a trend just yet.

The candidates crowded onto a stage in Edmonton to put their campaign policies on display and occasionally spar over popular themes like carbon pricing and the perils of a Justin Trudeau government.

Some of the women haven’t even told their own families about what they experienced at the hands of their persecutors, said associate deputy immigration minister Dawn Edlund.

Members of the largest Somali community in the United States say they're not surprised to see a growing number of asylum seekers braving the elements to illicitly enter Canada.

Michelle Rempel and Tony Clement tweeted on Sunday that illegal crossings are unsafe and place a burden on local law enforcement.

​Saciido Shaie says something seemed to be weighing on her friend Mohamed Badal in the days before he vanished.

A Canadian Border Services Agency spokesman could not immediately say whether the White House travel order would be sufficient grounds for revoking a Nexus card.

A new Statistics Canada survey says almost half the country's population could be an immigrant or the child of an immigrant within the next 20 years.

Fifteen migrant workers from Guatemala were arrested on Oct. 26, 2016 and now face deportation. National Observer interviewed some of them to hear their story.

When my parents first left Laos for a refugee camp in Thailand, their first choice of adopted country was the United States of America.

My sister was sobbing. She's a Mexican immigrant, and she’s pregnant with a second daughter, Luisa, who will be born days after Trump’s inauguration.

Newly released statistics show Canada's citizenship and immigration website experienced a huge spike in web traffic from the U.S. just before it crashed on Tuesday, as election results rolled in.

A big wave just rolled in south of our border, but Canada can be a beacon of hope as one of the strongest democracies in the world.

If you find yourselves considering a new life in a new country this morning, here are three options to consider.

Fifty per cent of the students at one French school in Montreal are Syrian refugees. National Observer takes you inside of one of them through the eyes of a student.