“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.
View More Migrant Workers Call on Ottawa to Remove Language Barrier for PR
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.
View More Migrant Workers: Frontline for COVID-19 Risk, but Back of the Line for Vaccines
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.
View More “We Don’t Just Want You to Study Here, We Want You to Stay Here.”
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.
View More UPDATED: Migrant Detainees Launch Hunger Strikes to Protest Government Inaction on COVID-19
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…
View More The Rising Tide of a Nationalist EthosLynne 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…
View More WWII Japanese Displacement Parallels Migrant CrisisIn 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…
View More Liberals Seek to Reunite More FamiliesIn this week’s round-up of what’s been making headlines in Canada’s ethnic media: the Black community reflects on the shortcomings of Black History Month; groups react to the passing of a federal motion denouncing sanctions…
View More Overhaul Black History Month, Community SaysEvery day, we see pictures and videos of families desperately crossing the sea to escape war and poverty back home. Hundreds of refugees are interviewed and photographed arriving on Western soil with nothing except what…
View More Refugees – Buzzword of the Year and Deservedly SoPeople running across the borders, others hanging for their lives on an overcrowded boat and a three-year-old Syrian boy washed up on a beach. These are just some of the chaotic images reported to us…
View More Refugee Journalists Take Over Danish Newspaper