First Nations-led evacuation centre in B.C. ensures resources available for IPV survivors

A former informant for a Marxist-Leninist military junta that ruled Ethiopia for 17 years, and who acknowledged that people he reported on were arrested and imprisoned, with some of them subjected to interrogations, beatings, and torture, has won another chance at staying in Canada. Mesresha Zewide, an Ethiopian citizen who came here 22 years ago as a refugee, was in the process of applying for permanent residency when immigration officials found in April 2017 that his involvement with Ethiopia’s Derg regime made him inadmissible to Canada for crimes against humanity, and ordered his...