Posted by admin on Aug 7th, 2012
Thursday August 30th
Doors at 5:30 pm, Program at 6 pm
Gallery Gachet (88 East Cordova)
- Midlaunch of the Inheriting Resistance Project
- Panel and storytelling with Inheriting Resistance participants
- Pre-launch of a children’s colouring book based on the Project illustrated by the wonderful Erica Mah!
For more information email noii-van@resist.ca or call 778 848 0722
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Posted by admin on Aug 2nd, 2012
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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Posted by admin on Aug 2nd, 2012
Steven Chase — The Globe and Mail
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/jason-kenney-faces-legal-uprising-over-conrad-black-visa/article4457055/
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.
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Posted by admin on Aug 2nd, 2012
by Danny Glenwright
http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/Let_Leatitia_stay-12374.aspx
This past May British criminal Conrad Black was allowed to move to Canada after he was released from an American prison. In 2007 Black was convicted of fraud and obstruction of justice.
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Posted by admin on Aug 1st, 2012
STEVEN CHASE
OTTAWA — The Globe and Mail
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/lawyer-says-kenneys-office-tried-to-intimidate-him-over-conrad-black-comments/article4451188/
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.
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