Global refugee summits: our generation’s legacy moment

Two gatherings next week in New York will give Canada the chance to show longer-term leadership on the issue.

Families from Syria and the region that are part of Canada's refugee resettlement program are seen at the Catholic Centre for Immigrants in Ottawa earlier this year. UN photograph by Evan Schneider

Opinion

BY KEVIN DUNBAR

September 14, 2016

The images of bewildered and traumatized five-year-old Omran Daqneesh pulled from the rubble in Aleppo shocked our global consciousness. Just like the photos of Alan Kurdi a year ago—the Syrian toddler whose lifeless body washed up on a Turkish beach—it was another grim reminder of the tens of ...

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