CFN Recognizes Orange Shirt Day
Saturday September 30th is Orange Short Day, a day to honour and remember the experiences and loss of the thousands of children who were...
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Sep 19, 20171 min read
Calgary Legal Guidance @ CFN
How does the government enforce Canadian immigration laws? Immigration laws are mainly enforced by 2 federal government departments...
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Jul 31, 20171 min read
Indigenous Education for Newcomers a Great Success
The official launch celebration of the Indigenous Education for Newcomers Initiative was a great success. We would like to express our...
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Jul 1, 20171 min read
Orange Ribbon Campaign - Celebrating Refugees: Kim Thuy
Part 9 of our Celebrating Refugee Series takes us to Kim Thuy. A Canadian novelist born in Saigon, Vietnam. At the age of 10, Thuy...
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Jun 27, 20171 min read
Orange Ribbon Campaign - Celebrating Refugees: Maryam Monsef
Part 8 of our Celebrating Refugees Series takes us to the Honourable Maryam Monsef. Monsef is a Canadian politician of Afghan descent...
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Jun 22, 20171 min read
Orange Ribbon Campaign - Celebrating Refugees: Hyam Abu Nada
June 20th was World Refugee Day, but Refugee Month and the Orange Ribbon Campaign continue throughout June. Part 7 of 9 in our...
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Jun 21, 20171 min read
AGM & World Refugee Day @ CFN
Yesterday CFN held its Annual General Meeting & World Refugee Day Celebrations and CFN would like to send out a big thank you to all...
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Jun 20, 20171 min read
Orange Ribbon Campaign - Celebrating Refugees: Dany Laferrière
Part 6 of our Celebrating Refugees Series take us to Dany Laferrière, a Haitian-Canadian novelist and journalist who writes in French...
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Jun 20, 20172 min read
June 20th is World Refugee Day
Here at the CFN, today, we celebrate World Refugee Day. Last year we started #RefugeeDayYYC to go along with our city wide, month long...
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Jun 14, 20172 min read
Orange Ribbon Campaign - Celebrating Refugees: Ahmed Hussen
Part 5 of our Celebrating Refugees Series take us to the Honourable Ahmed Hussen. As a young boy, he left war torn Somalia to forge...
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Jun 12, 20172 min read
Orange Ribbon Campaign - Celebrating Refugees: Michaelle Jean
The Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Canadian journalist and documentarian who was Canada’s 27th governor-general (2005–10) and the first...
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Jun 9, 20171 min read
Orange Ribbon Campaign: Celebrating Refugees: K'Naan
As a part of our Orange Ribbon Campaign, we will be highlighting some of Canada's most well known refugees throughout the month to bring...
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Jun 6, 20171 min read
Orange Ribbon Campaign - Celebrating Refugees: Ricardo Miranda
According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in 2016 Canada admitted the largest number of refugees in...
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Jun 5, 20172 min read
London Drugs’ #Welcoming150 Campaign Supporting Refugee Families in Calgary
London Drugs has launched #Welcoming150, a special program and donation drive that will support 150 new Canadian families across Western...
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Jun 2, 20171 min read
Orange Ribbon Campaign - Celebrating Refugees: Adrienne Clarkson
As one of our planet's most politically and economically stable countries, awash in natural resources with a firmly structured social...
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Jun 1, 20171 min read
Orange Ribbon Campaign Launches Today
June 20th is observed as “World Refugee Day” to honour the courage, strength and determination of women, men and children who are forced...
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May 24, 20171 min read
June is World Refugee Month
CFN would like you to join us in honouring the courage, strength, and determination of refugee women, men and children in Calgary...
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May 9, 20171 min read
CFN CEO Speaking @ Canadian Immigration Summit 2017
The Canadian Immigration Summit is where stakeholders from across the country convene to discuss innovative, practical, and actionable...
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Apr 27, 20171 min read
Canada's Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen & MP Darshan Kang Visit CFN
As a young boy our nation's newest Immigration Minister fled war-torn Somalia as a refugee with family to forge a new life in Canada at...
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Apr 24, 20171 min read
National Volunteer Week
April 23 to 29 is National Volunteer Week in Canada, a week dedicating the entire month to the hard work and passion volunteers give to...
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