Anti-violence advocates hail a court ruling in British Columbia that came down against a man who tried to use deportation proceedings against his former spouse.
View More Filing False Immigration Reports Against Partner is “Family Violence,” Judge RulesDear Minister Ahmed Hussen, Many of us cheered when you were recently made the Immigration Minister. We felt that as an immigrant Canadian you would surely bring to your position a new and hopefully more…
View More An Open Letter to Immigration Minister Ahmed HussenThroughout the campaign for the White House, Donald Trump sensationalized one of the great sores of U.S. political and social life: the issue of immigrants, notably the undocumented, and what his presidency would do to them.…
View More Trump’s Impossible Deportation Goals
When Elizabeth Philibert arrived in Montreal as an émigré in 1979, she immediately felt the city would be her closest connection to Haiti. The city’s circle of activists quickly embraced Philibert, who had risked her…
View More Haitian Canadians in Quebec: A Rich Political History
While candidates in Quebec are doing their best to reach out to new Canadian voters in the current federal elections, some advocates are hoping that the current Syrian refugee crisis will widen the conversation on…
View More Quebec’s Federal Candidates Urged to Tackle Immigration
The media has recently served as a powerful platform for immigrants seeking to appeal negative decisions, such as deportation orders and permanent residency denials. This year alone, a star American CFL football player used the…
View More Media Must Be Cautious Covering Individual Immigration Cases
The federal government will not abide temporary foreign workers going underground to avoid an April 1 deadline that will force thousands of them out of the country, the immigration minister’s office said Tuesday. “We will…
View More “We Will Not Tolerate People Going Underground”
Two days before an April 1st deadline imposed under changes to the government’s temporary foreign worker program, some foreign workers who have to go back to their home countries are doing so with empty pockets…
View More Temporary Foreign Workers Bilked by Immigration Consultants as Deadline LoomsJihoon Lee has come a long way since moving to Toronto two and a half years ago. Born in ideologically repressive North Korea, the teenager has outdone most of his peers at his Scarborough school. In…
View More No Place to Go: Closing the Door on North Korean Refugees