Hundreds of migrant workers in Windsor-Essex have received first shot of a COVID-19 vaccine
About 440 farm workers in Windsor-Essex received the first shot of a COVID-19 vaccine in Leamington on Sunday.
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Posted: Apr 19, 2021 5:21 PM ET | Last Updated: April 19
Leamington and Kingsville have been identified as hotspot regions in Windsor-Essex as the areas have seen high COVID-19 case rates in migrant worker populations. (Ousama Farag/CBC)
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Canada is offering permanent residency to up to 40,000 more students from abroad who graduated from a Canadian institution in the last four years. Photo by Armin Rimoldi / Pexels
International students and recent graduates were overlooked in Canada’s response to COVID-19, but Ottawa is now offering a shortcut to permanent residency to some of those who can fill critical jobs as pandemic travel restrictions make it hard to hit immigration targets.
Some 90,000 new spots will be offered this year, including 40,000 for students from abroad who have graduated from a Canadian institution in the last four years, the federal government said this week.
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By Anna Mehler Paperny
TORONTO (Reuters) - Pedro, a Mexican migrant worker, knew he had to leave the Ontario cannabis operation where he worked when so many of his coworkers caught COVID-19 that his employer began to house them in a 16-person bunk house alongside the uninfected.
Pedro moved in with friends in the nearby farming town of Leamington, Ontario, at the end of October. He asked to be identified under a pseudonym because he fears that speaking out will affect his chances of employment. I didn t know where to go, where to get help. So I was left behind, hopeless, he said, speaking through a translator. About a week later, Pedro landed another job, working with peppers in a greenhouse. Conditions are better, he said.
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Pedro, a Mexican migrant worker, knew he had to leave the Ontario cannabis operation where he worked when so many of his coworkers caught COVID-19 that his employer began to house them in a 16-person bunk house alongside the uninfected.
Pedro moved in with friends in the nearby farming town of Leamington, Ontario, at the end of October. He asked to be identified under a pseudonym because he fears that speaking out will affect his chances of employment.