Posted by admin on Mar 2nd, 2010
CTV.ca News Staff, Date: Tue. Mar. 2 2010 6:55 PM ET
Seven people who came to Canada to watch the Vancouver Winter Olympics are now seeking refugee status, CTV News has learned, including claimants from Hungary, Russia and Japan. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said it was “ridiculous” that anyone from Japan could claim to be a refugee and told CTV’s Power Play Tuesday that it was a sign that the system has broken down.
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Posted by admin on Jan 31st, 2010
January 31, 2010 by Ben Amundson, The Dominion
VANCOUVER—After the Copenhagen Climate Conference failed to produce a legally-binding agreement, Kim Carstensen, Leader of the World Wildlife Fund’s Global Climate Initiative, stated in a press release that the Copenhagen Accord translates into “three degrees Celsius of warming or more.†Those three degrees could trigger the migration of millions of impoverished agriculturalists around the globe. The direction of climate change negotiations concerned 150 small-scale farmers of NGO La Via Campesina for a different reason. “Our farms are not for sale on the climate market,†they protested in Copenhagen on December 15.
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Posted by admin on Dec 3rd, 2009
By Harsha Walia | December 3, 2009. Rabble.ca
What does the murder of a 24-year-old woman, found with blows to her body and a bullet in her forehead in Mexico, have to do with Canada’s immigration system? To refugee advocates it represents the system’s fundamental failure to uphold the rights of asylum seekers: the 24-year-old victim and her mother and sister had twice sought refuge in Canada from the druglords who are believed to have killed her upon her deportation. Immigrant rights activists are concerned by a pattern of tighter controls, increased deportations and inflammatory anti-immigrant posturing over the past year that further erodes the myth of benevolence in Canada’s immigration policy.
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Posted by admin on Nov 29th, 2009
By Radha Jhappan, rabble.ca, November 2009
Like more than 6.2 million Canadian citizens and permanent residents, I am a first generation immigrant. In fact, aside from the 1.3 million citizens of Aboriginal ancestry, whose ancient national territories held since time immemorial we have occupied, the entire population of what we now call Canada is comprised of immigrants and descendants of immigrants who have come in successive waves since the early 17th century. Like many of those immigrants, I have lived in several countries — six actually, on five continents — and have been fortunate enough to travel to 42 others. Canada is the country I chose to live in, and luckily, it chose me; it is a country I love and am privileged to call home.
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Posted by admin on Nov 17th, 2009
On November 14, 2009, No One Is Illegal-Vancouver (Coast Salish Territories) activists, supporters, and allies confronted Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Jason Kenney at the University of British Columbia. Kenney was invited to speak to the UBC Campus Conservatives but did not receive a warm welcome, as his talk was continuously disrupted by a barrage of questions and confrontation regarding Canada’s racist immigration policy. There was a heavy presence of security and police at the event, in anticipation of alleged ‘security threats’ and ‘disruptions’ based on a tip that NOII-Van had called allies to mobilize around Kenney’s arrival.
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