Nicholas Keung
Immigration Reporter
Daniel Garcia Rodriguez would have permanently lost his vision from a chronic retinal detachment if it wasn’t for a Toronto surgeon who defied Ottawa’s order not to operate on the Aurora man’s eye.
by Yolande Cole
Medical workers and members of the public concerned about recent cuts to refugee health-care services stood outside St. Paul’s Hospital Thursday (August 2) evening in the first of what they say will be bi-weekly vigils against the changes.
By members of No One Is Illegal – Toronto
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/no-one-illegal/whats-kenney-trp-kerfuffle-about
Recently there has been a flurry of words and tweets regarding the issuing of a Temporary Resident Permit (TRP) to Conrad Black by the Minister for Deportations, Jason Kenney. Except when some lawyers said that Kenney was involved, his office went ahead and tried to get them disciplined. Now a bevy of lawyers have written an open letter saying that they don’t believe Kenney when he says he wasn’t involved, something the Globe and Mail is calling it an “uprising”.
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Steven Chase — The Globe and Mail
More than 80 lawyers have signed an open letter to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney challenging his insistence he played no role in granting Conrad Black a permit to live in this country even before the U.K. citizen had finished his jail time in Florida.
STEVEN CHASE
OTTAWA — The Globe and Mail
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s office pursued a formal complaint against a Toronto lawyer who suggested publicly that the Conservative politician played a role in the decision to let former media baron Conrad Black return to Canada.
