War mongers gather in Ottawa
Protesters disrupted CANSEC, the world's largest arms and weapons trade show. Press censorship and police violence surrounded the event.
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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, and how migrant workers are pushing back and winning.
The Migrant Justice Institute led by University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) law […]