Photographer Chad Evans Wyatt, shocked by how Roma were portrayed in the Czech media, decided to find Roma who defied the stereotypes and present a different portrait [...]

On February 17, 2012, in Ottawa, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney was discussing the arrival of one group of refugee claimants, most of whom are Hungarian. He was not pleased. “Our government is very disturbed by the recent rise in requests from democratic countries that respect human rights,” he remarked. “The rising number of bogus requests from democratic states of the European Union just makes this problem worse.” Kenney first used the term “bogus” in 2009 to describe Roma claimants and has favoured it ever since. He inspired the Toronto Sun to run this headline on October 27, 2011: “Feds vow crackdown as Pearson flooded with bogus Hungarian Roma claims [...]

Roma children from three Parkdale schools celebrate their culture in song and dance.

Erika Pintyo is a child and youth worker at Parkdale Collegiate. She invited me to the school recently, to attend a Roma Day assembly [...]

OTTAWA - An advocate for Roma refugee claimants says "Gypsy fiction" is fanning the same kind of discrimination in Canada that her ancestors have faced for centuries in Europe [...]

Parkdale Collegiate Institute students bring a message to the Minister of Immigration

A small group of Parkdale Collegiate Institute (PCI) students used a chance meeting in Ottawa to take the government to task over what they say is discrimination toward people of Roma origin [...]