The Canadian Press, Jan. 10, 2011
VANCOUVER — Thirteen years have passed since Jose Figueroa escaped vicious death threats and a gunfire attack in his Latin American homeland for backing guerilla forces that opposed a murderous regime.
By JENNIFER O’BRIEN, The London Free Press, January 7 2011
For more than a decade, London has been the go-to spot for Colombian refugee claimants who have enriched the city they coined “Londombia†with their language, culture and food.
By Catalina Nieto, Other Words, Jan. 3 2011
In addition to directing funding towards enforcement-only policies that criminalize immigrants, CCA lobbies for immigration policies that get more undocumented residents locked up.
CBC News, December 27, 2010
A Mexican woman who fled to Toronto and claimed refugee status saying she was being persecuted for being gay, has been deported.
By Douglas Quan, Postmedia News, December 23, 2010
The Harper government calls the shadowy individuals who helped smuggle 492 Tamil migrants to Canada aboard a cargo ship this summer “criminals” and “ruthless profiteers.” But one of the migrants who took that perilous three-month voyage with her two children considers them “saviours.”
