Your claim that Syrian refugees are being used as cheap labor is dubious to say the least when less than 10,000 refugees have arrived so far and most are women and children.
Canada is desperate for immigrants so that the lower levels of the pyramid scheme also known as the "economy" can be filled out. I suggest your best recourse would be to find yourself a spot higher up on the pyramid than the one you occupy now. First step: sell some of your art.
Failing that, find a real job.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.