Posted by admin on Oct 5th, 2009
By No One Is Illegal-Toronto – Monday, October 5, 2009
Some believe that the Canadian immigration system is fair and generous. It isn’t. And Stephen Harper and Jason Kenney are swiftly making it even worse. They are underhandedly taking apart the so-called ‘objective’ points-based system. They are moving quickly to get rid of its ‘humanitarian’ part, the refugee process. In its place, they are setting up temporary work programs that are designed to push most migrants in to vulnerable, precarious and temporary jobs without access to services or the ability to unionize.
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Posted by admin on Jan 30th, 2009
John Riddell. Rabble.ca
As darkness falls in Toronto and tens of thousands of office workers pour out of the downtown skyscrapers, another army enters the buildings, quietly and unperceived – the night shift that cleans the office towers and readies them for the next day’s activity. These buildings house Canada’s richest corporations – the banks alone had profits of $20 billion in 2007 – yet their janitors are among the worst paid and worst treated of Toronto’s work force. And they work within an employment structure carefully contrived to render them powerless.
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Posted by admin on Dec 22nd, 2008
By Chad Skelton. December 22, 2008. Vancouver Sun
More than a quarter of university-educated immigrants in Vancouver are still working in low-skilled jobs a decade after arriving in Canada, a higher proportion than in any other major city in the country, according to a new study by Statistics Canada. The study, released Monday, looked at how Vancouver immigrants who arrived from 1990 to 1994 with university degrees were faring. It found that 24 per cent of the men and 33 per cent of the women were still working in low-skilled jobs — such as clerks, cashiers or taxi drivers.
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Posted by admin on Oct 9th, 2008
Toronto Star. October 09, 2008. Nicholas Keung
At 73, Balkar Singh Bajwa cares for his two grandsons, taking them to school, parks and doctors’ appointments. At times, the Brampton man, a retired principal from India, gets calls to work as a certified Punjabi translator. The little money he makes is his sole income. “Many of us, immigrant seniors, are penniless. If you need money, you have to put your hands out and ask your children for money,” sighed Bajwa, who came here in 1999 under his son’s sponsorship and is a naturalized citizen.
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Posted by admin on Oct 7th, 2008
OTTAWA, Oct. 7 /CNW Telbec/ – Child poverty in Canada is stuck at the same level as 1989 and immigrant family incomes are falling behind, according to Canada’s Vital Signs 2008, the annual report card on quality of life from Community Foundations of Canada (CFC). Highlights of the report were released today and show:
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