Activists worry about a “secretive policy shift” that may explain an unprecedented rate of rejections of PR applications on Humanitarian & Compassionate grounds.
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Community Helps Undocumented Migrants Get Vaccinated
With no one-size-fits-all solution, community leaders and doctors are filling in gaps left by governments. NCM reporter Tuvana Sahinturk looks into the vaccination of the most marginalized in Canadian society.
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Housing: A Boom for Investors, Inaccessible Bust for Newcomers
While investors in the housing and rental markets are making huge returns, racialized newcomers and immigrants are struggling to find stable, affordable housing, which is a human right.
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Migrant Workers Call on Ottawa to Remove Language Barrier for PR
“Not speaking English is not an impediment to our work.” One migrant justice organization is calling on Ottawa to expand the pathway to permanent residency for essential migrant workers by removing the language requirement.
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Migrant Workers: Frontline for COVID-19 Risk, but Back of the Line for Vaccines
Even as Canada increases its vaccine supply, there is no plan to vaccinate undocumented essential workers. Two undocumented workers share their stories of working under precarious conditions as they struggle to keep safe on the job during the pandemic.
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“We Don’t Just Want You to Study Here, We Want You to Stay Here.”
Canada urges graduating foreign students to stay, as a new study shows COVID-19’s devastating effects on the international education market, migrant workers and recent immigrants.
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UPDATED: Migrant Detainees Launch Hunger Strikes to Protest Government Inaction on COVID-19
Migrants at Canada’s busiest detention centre are on a hunger strike to draw attention to crowded living conditions that could result in an outbreak. Insufficient information from Canada Border Services Agency about the coronavirus is also contributing to growing concerns among migrants.
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The Rising Tide of a Nationalist Ethos
There is an egregious crisis brewing at the United States-Mexico border, according to US officials. Thousands of migrants – mostly families and unaccompanied kids are seeking to gate crash. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin…
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WWII Japanese Displacement Parallels Migrant Crisis
Lynne Kutsukake’s The Translation of Love is as haunting as it is beautiful. Set in post-WWII Japan, the novel touches upon migration and identity issues as pertinent today as they were in 1946. It is…
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Liberals Seek to Reunite More Families
In this week’s round-up of what’s been making headlines in Canada’s media: the federal government has a new plan to welcome immigrants that aims to reunite more families; women from ethnic communities in Canada call…
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