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Article: CANADIAN WELCOME MAT FRAYED WITH ARRIVAL OF CZECH GYPSIES.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- August 28, 1997
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Hoping to escape racial harassment at home - but also, it appears, chasing false dreams of welfare checks and subsidized housing - unprecedented numbers of Gypsies are descending upon Canada, primarily from the Czech Republic.
Their arrival is causing overflows at homeless shelters and straining the resources of social workers, according to police and immigration officials in Toronto, where hundreds of Gypsies have flocked in recent days.
The exodus started earlier this month, after a misleading documentary was shown on Czech television. The TV-Nova report depicted Canada as a promised land for Gypsies, and indicated that the country offers a special ...