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MONTREAL - An international aviation catering company and a Quebec recruitment firm allegedly lured foreign workers to Canada under false pretences and exploited them, according to a proposed class-action lawsuit.

A Montreal organization that supports migrant workers is seeking authorization for a class-action lawsuit against an international aviation catering company and a recruitment firm that they say illegally employed foreign workers.

The workers centre is acting on behalf of more than 400 people since 2021 who it says were falsely promised they would be given work permits and legitimate jobs in Canada.

Trésors president says hes "stunned" by the allegations.

Protesters disrupted CANSEC, the world's largest arms and weapons trade show. Press censorship and police violence surrounded the event.

More than two dozen temporary foreign workers and allies gathered in Vancouver on Sunday to call for better working conditions, health care, stronger protections and a clear path to residency for the more than 32,000 temporary foreign workers in B.C.

Youssef Ismail, a stateless Palestinian who has been stranded in Canada since 1991, wants to be deported back to Palestine. But the Canadian government is refusing to send him home or grant him papers.

Canada is seeing record numbers of immigration – all part of a plan to shore up the workforce. But behind the image of our country as a welcoming nation lies a two-tiered society, says Mostafa Henaway. He is an organizer with the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal and the author of Essential Work, Disposable Workers. Henaway joins David Common to discuss what the pandemic revealed about how Canada values – or undervalues – some workers, how global policies have exacerbated inequality, an...

The Migrant Justice Institute led by University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) law […]