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Federal Liberal Government and Country

: Her best advice to the thousands of new refugees who will come to the country in the months ahead is to focus on getting over the language barrier, and to respect and appreciate the country where they will be settling in, according to Globe and Mail. And also try as much as they can to integrate. They have had to adapt to different curriculum, as well as the cold walk to their schools. She and her children were part of an early trickle of people who came to Canada fleeing the civil war in their native Syria, and will soon be joined by thousands more. Although the federal Liberal government has said the process to resettle refugees will move more slowly than promised during the election campaign, documents circulated to immigrant agencies this week show that by the end of the year, the province could still welcome almost 750 refugees – including 439 in Calgary and 285 in Edmonton. About 3,000 of the 25,000 Syrian refugees set to land in Canada before the end of February will come mainly to five Alberta cities: Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer, Lethbridge and Medicine Hat. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.