Posted by admin on Mar 13th, 2011
PICKET MINISTER OF CENSORSHIP AND DEPORTATION JASON KENNEY!
Jason Kenney in Vancouver! Monday March 14 10 am. CIC Building. Location: 877 Expo Blvd, just behind BC Place – walk over from Tinseltown, very close to Stadium Skytrain station&Â Costco
The War Resisters Campaign has called a picket to oppose the governments position on deporting war resisters. No One Is Illegal calls on our allies to join this picket and to oppose all deportations and detentions. Under Kenney, deportations have increased, while the number of people accepted as refugees and sponsored family members have drastically dropped. Instead, Kenney has increased the number of temporary workers who are constantly exploited for their labour. This month it was revealed that Kenney boosted spending in his office by 35%, with much of the money being used for advertising campaigns targeted at so-called ethnic voters.
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Posted by admin on Mar 13th, 2011
IMMIGRATION ACTIVISTS PROTEST MINISTER KENNEY
Monday March 14th at 10 am at Citizenship Offices, 877 Expo Blvd, Vancouver
Monday March 14, 2011, Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories– The refugee rights and migrant justice organization No One Is Illegal is protesting Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s arrival in Vancouver on Monday March 14th at 10 am at a citizenship ceremony, where he is expected to make an announcement. According to Harjap Grewal of No One Is Illegal, “Jason Kenney is routinely called the Minister of Censorship and Deportation because of his record as one of the most repressive immigration ministers in Canadian history. But there is a growing grassroots movement across the country to reject Minister Kenney’s oppressive, violent, and racist policies.â€
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Posted by admin on Mar 12th, 2011
By Jeffrey Simpson, Globe and Mail, Mar. 12 2011
If diplomats, as is said, are sent abroad to lie for their country, then Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has been sent across Canada to eat for his party. Mr. Kenney was scalded recently because his office sent, on ministerial letterhead, a frantic appeal for $200,000 to Conservative Party riding associations to finance yet more pre-election advertising. This ad campaign would be directed at South Asian and Chinese communities. Mr. Kenney apologized and the aide was fired, since parliamentary letterhead should not be used for such partisan purposes (although anyone not born yesterday knows a grey zone exists between the parliamentary and the political). Details aside, what if the aide had not inadvertently sent the letter to an NDP MP? No one would have ever known about the transgression.
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Posted by admin on Mar 10th, 2011
By Stephen Maher, Ottawa Bureau, Mar. 10 2011
OTTAWA — Jason Kenney has boosted spending by 35 per cent in the
immigration minister’s office in the three years since he took over the
portfolio, government financial records show.
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Posted by admin on Mar 9th, 2011
By C. L. Cook, Canadian Free Press, Mar. 9 2011
Vandana Shiva was scheduled to speak tonight in Calgary, Alberta, spiritual home of far right Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper. But, like other activists and writers trying to enter Canada lately, things didn’t go smoothly for her. Shiva is also scheduled to receive tomorrow a University of Calgary’s Consortium for Peace Studies award. (Please see below break for details). Swerve Calgary reports Shiva is being held tonight at the Canada/U.S. border due to “an issue with her visa.”
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