Stay updated with the latest news coverage featuring Romero House through our collection of post, videos, and podcasts.

  • Romero House: “We welcome refugees differently; we welcome them as neighbours.”
    September 27, 2024. PANL Perspectives.
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  • Apartment building for refugee families set to open in Toronto’s west end.
    Oct 03, 2024. CBC News.
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  • Shelters seeking private homes to help house refugee claimants. December 6, 2023. NEW CANADIAN MEDIA.
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  • Immigrant journalists share stories of exile from their home countries. September 11, 2023. NEW CANADIAN MEDIA.
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  • Is Canada Really So Immigrant-Friendly?
    August 28, 2023. Foreign Policy.
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  • Refugees facing a housing, health and paperwork crisis in Toronto.
    July 24, 2023. The Final Word, Met Radio.
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  • The homeless refugee crisis in Toronto illustrates Canada’s broken promises.
    July 14, 2023. Broadview.
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  • Riding the Waves: Toronto’s Latin American Community. Explore the contributions of the Latin American community to advocacy and activism in Toronto.
    October 5, 2022. HERITAGE TORONTO.
    Explore and learn with interactive map! 
  • Torontonians urged to offer temporary housing for refugees.
    Jan 31, 2022. HUMBER NEWS.
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  • Charity turns to Torontonians to house refugees as shelters fill up.
    Dec 24, 2021. CBC News
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  • Why are you here? Theologian Mary Jo Leddy looks to Canada’s newcomers and the land itself for answers.
    Feb 9, 2019. The Catholic Register.
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  • Romero House: A place to call home for refugees in Toronto. November 29, 2018.
    America, The Jesuit Review.
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  • Anglicans offer refuge to asylum-seekers.
    March 2, 2017. Anglican Journal.
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  • Toronto shelters struggle to cope with surge in refugee claimants.
    February 2, 2017. TORONTO STAR.
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  • Romero House’s real success: Once ‘very white’ Toronto neighbourhood opens homes to refugees.
    Jun 11, 2016. CBC News.
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  • A Conversation with Mary Jo Leddy, founder of Romero House for Refugees.
    September 11, 2016. Kolbe Times.
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  • Romero House: 25 Years of welcoming the stranger.
    April 24, 2016. TORONTO STAR.
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  • Schoolkids welcome Syrian teen to Canada with heartfelt letters.
    Feb 22, 2016.
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  • Syrian teen to stay in Canada after deportation order cancelled.
    Feb 18, 2016. CBC News.
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  • Canada Reverses Its Decision to Deport Syrian Teen It Held in Solitary Confinement.
    February 18, 2016. VICE MEDIA.
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  • Winnie Muchuba: A refugee flees a violent past, creates a hopeful future.
    Dec 10, 2015. CBC News.
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  • Syrian refugees: 3 radical approaches to solving the crisis.
    Nov 28, 2015. CBC News.
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  • Ideas from the Trenches – Refuge.
    November 26, 2015. CBC radio.
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  • Resettled refugees to run Toronto marathon to bring Syrians to Canada.
    October 16, 2015. CBC News.
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  • Toronto lawyer suspended for five months for misconduct involving Roma refugees.
    May 12, 2015. CBC News.
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  • Roma family living in Toronto church exhausted from living in exile.
    Apr 08, 2014. CBC News.
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  • Summer camp opens ‘whole new window of Canada’ for refugee family.
    June 23, 2017. TORONTO STAR.
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  • What Is Entailed in Offering Sanctuary? Findings from a Consultation held at Romero House Toronto, November 2007.
    JSTOR Digital Library.
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