Preserving our immigration history.

Bulletin

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Bulletin 113 October 2025

Main Topics Covered News about the new book Hearts of Freedom, authored by CIHS members and others, as well as a review. The final instalment of an immigration officer’s experiences working at a Can...
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Bulletin 112 May 2025

Main Topics Covered An overview of the CIHS’s work over the past 15 years, in partnership with many community, academic and creative organizations, to tell the stories of the Southeast Asian refugee...
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Bulletin 111 – December 2024

We end 2024 with Bulletin 111 which reports on CIHS activities this year: The October 2024 CIHS Annual General Meeting, which highlighted Canada’s Operation Parasol, the evacuation of Kosovars to Ca...
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BULLETIN 110 – September 2024

Bulletin 110 focuses on two themes: The Political Persons and Oppressed Persons Designated Class: development of the policy and legal framework for this class and its implementation, focused on events...
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Bulletin 106 – September 2023

Howard Adelman, a York University philosophy professor, founded Operation Lifeline in 1979 to promote and coordinate the private sponsorship of Indochinese refugees. He subsequently established the Ce...
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