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Canada and Mauricio Osorto

Mauricio Osorto: He abandoned his life as a university teacher and lawyer who shared his mother's law practice to go to Canada where he had to start again, according to CTV. But many others after Osorto, 33, won't have the same opportunities in British Columbia after the federal government cut almost of all of its funding for agencies that had been offering mental health services to thousands of traumatized refugees and - Months after his mother was murdered by gang gunfire, Mauricio Osorto recognized he would be next if he didn't escape Honduras. A Vancouver refugee-assistance program helped him get through the grief and trauma of what he left behind and allowed him to build a new life in Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.