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Connie Sorio, Tess Agustin
| On Thanksgiving we gather with family and friends and often we acknowledge the delicious bounty that's before us. But what about the temporary foreign workers who tend to and harvest this food? |
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Sophia Reuss
| Migrant worker justice groups have long advocated for an overhaul of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. RAMA is calling special attention to the plight of agricultural workers in B.C. |
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Sophia Reuss
| Parliament has begun its review of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program and has only heard from four migrant workers. Francisco Mootoo spoke to rabble about his experience. |
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Sophia Reuss
| #StatusNow actions during Parliament's review of the TFWP will demand reforms that grant temporary foreign workers mobility, voice and equality. |
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Teuila Fuatai
| The federal government's exemption to the Temporary Foreign Workers Program fails to fix underlying problems around unsustainable business practices and workers' rights, argue workers' groups. |
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Connie Sorio, Alfredo Barahona
| Canada announced a review of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP) just days after the Equal in Dignity – Equal in Rights Forum in Fredericton. The timing could not have been better. |
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Justicia for Migrant Workers Collective, Radical Action with Migrants in Agriculture
| Justicia for Migrant Workers and Radical Action with Migrants in Agriculture are outraged that the Vernon RCMP released personal information of four Mexican migrant workers to the public. |
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Jonathan Chapnick
| Twitter was raging against Tim Hortons last Thursday. According to the Ottawa Sun, for much of the day the hottest trending topic in Canada was #BoycottTims. |
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Ella Bedard
| Several unions and major labour groups take action against Canada's revolving-door immigration policy. |
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E.K. Hudson
| For the first time, the federal government has come down on an Alberta employer for misusing the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. But who does this ban actually affect? |
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Ethel Tungohan
| The Harper government repeatedly disregards findings about the LCP and instead chooses to believe that Filipino families "abuse" the system. Is history just repeating itself? |
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No One Is Illegal
| Two migrant justice activists from No One Is Illegal disrupted Employment Minister Jason Kenney's press conference Wednesday afternoon demanding permanent immigration status for migrant workers. |
