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In 2020, Alberta Health extended health-care coverage to people waiting for the federal government to renew their work permits. Many of those extensions have now run out, leaving foreign nationals responsible for paying for their own health care.
A large number of immigrants say they've been waiting months to hear back from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) about whether or not they will soon become Canadian citizens.
Ashiru Sarafa Awoyemi drowned while caring for a group home resident in February. His body remains at a funeral home and his wife and four children in Nigeria still can't enter Canada to say a final goodbye.