Media Archive
2022
December 2022
Pandemic payouts are stalling cross-border workers' tax returns, Canada Revenue Agency says
CBC News, December 20, 2022
Canada embraces its immigrant soccer stars. Where's the support for migrant rights?
CBC News, December 17, 2022
Greenhouse growers, Leamington mayor welcome news migrant workers may be able to bring families
CBC News, December 8, 2022
Mexican workers accuse Canadian farmers of mistreatment
Niagara Now, December 7, 2022
november 2022
Quebec resort called discriminatory for paying temporary foreign workers less than Canadian employees
CBC News, November 29, 2022
Guest column: Migrant workers deserve fundamental rights in Canada
Windsor Star, November 26, 2022
Canada doesn’t appear to have a plan to welcome climate migrants
Penticton Herald, November 25, 2022
Canada's push to 'poach' nurses from abroad fuels fears of shortages in developing countries
CBC News, November 20, 2022
Migrant worker left injured, unable to travel home to Jamaica after he's hit while on his bike in Niagara
CBC News, November 15, 2022
How Canada became a hotbed for low-wage foreign labour
The Globe and Mail, November 8, 2022
'I just need a chance to live again': Jamaican migrant worker with cancer begs to stay in N.S.
CBC News, November 4, 2022
October 2022
Employers are rushing to fill jobs with temporary foreign workers
The Globe and Mail, October 31, 2022
Meet Gabriel Allahdua, University of Guelph's first activist-in-residence
CBC News, October 27, 2022
This McMaster student is learning a different side to her home country in a Canadian classroom
CBC News, October 27, 2022
'I am not a criminal': Calls for government to give permanent residency to migrants in limbo
CTV News, October 17, 2022
Migrants and supporters in Canada advocate for regularization, permanent status
CBC News, October 16, 2022
Canada strengthens protections for temporary foreign workers with new regulations
Canadian Lawyer, October 4, 2022
Injured migrant farmworkers fight for fair compensation from WSIB
CTV News, October 3, 2022
september 2022
Good enough to work, good enough to stay
Rabble, September 27, 2022
No help for undocumented workers
Toronto Star, September 25, 2022
Recruiters and employers increasingly taking advantage of temporary foreign workers, advocate says
CBC News, September 23, 2022
Migrant workers speaking out about alleged abuse at NS farms
CityNews, September 18, 2022
Migrants across Canada call on Ottawa for action on regularization, permanent status
CBC News, September 18, 2022
Migrant workers across Canada protests to demand ‘status for all’
Global News, September 18, 2022
Hundreds rally, march in Toronto to demand status for all migrants in Canada
CBC News, September 18, 2022
Advocates urge Canada to grant permanent status to migrants
Al Jazeera, September 14, 2022
Jamaica sending team to Canada to probe work conditions on farms
Al Jazeera, September 1, 2022
August 2022
We need to end the abuse of temporary foreign workers
Toronto Star, August 29, 2022
Jamaican minister rejects workers’ abuse claims on Canadian farms
Al Jazeera, August 27, 2022
Group of foreign workers allege verbal abuse, unfair treatment at Manitoba's Elkhorn Resort
CBC News, August 26, 2022
Foodland flyer sparks outrage: Farm family takes spotlight while migrant workers ‘invisibilized’
Yahoo! News, August 25, 2022
Filling Canada’s labour gaps with migrant workers
The Globe and Mail, August 25, 2022
Migrant farm workers' group calls for action over 'exploitative' working conditions
CTV News, August 25, 2022
Jamaican farmworkers decry ‘seismic-level exploitation’ in Canada
Al Jazeera, August 24, 2022
Migrant workers continue to call for change after death of Jamaican worker at Ontario farm
CTV News, August 24, 2022
'When...your boss is abusing you, you can't just leave': Jamaican migrant workers expose Canada's ‘systemic slavery’
Yahoo! News, August 23, 2022
Death of migrant worker in Norfolk, Ont. prompts call to change permanent immigration status
Global News, August 22, 2022
Open letter says Jamaican migrant farm workers face “systemic slavery” in Canada
CHCH, August 22, 2022
Protesters interrupt federal announcement on COVID-19 migrant worker isolation site
CBC News, August 22, 2022
Jamaican migrant workers in Ontario pen open letter likening conditions to 'systematic slavery'
CBC News, August 20, 2022
DNA collection from migrant workers ruled a human rights abuse
Canada's National Observer, August 19, 2022
OPP racially targeted 54 migrant farm workers while searching for a rapist, Ontario tribunal rules
CBC News, August 18, 2022
They were hunting for a rapist, but OPP ended up walking over migrant farm workers’ rights, tribunal finds
Toronto Star, August 18, 2022
Ontario tribunal rules OPP discriminated against migrant workers in 2013
The Globe and Mail, August 18, 2022
$600 to share a bedroom: Migrant workers lose their jobs after complaining about rent
CBC News, August 16, 2022
Temporary foreign workers rescued from abusive situation on P.E.I. farm
CBC, August 16, 2022
New University of Windsor study aimed at improving the lives of migrant workers
Windsor Star, August 2, 2022
July 2022
Ontario farm fined $125K for mishandling COVID-19 outbreak that killed migrant worker
CityNews, July 12, 2022
Deportations halted for two Edmonton families at 11th hour
CBC, July 5, 2022
June 2022
Filipinos highlight “legalized slavery” during Filipino Heritage Month
Rabble, June 30, 2022
Quebec migrant worker who helped on COVID-19 front line fears deportation
Global News, June 27, 2022
Caravan seeks justice for migrant workers in Essex County
Windsor Star, June 13, 2022
May 2022
Alberta lifts restrictions on temporary foreign workers
CIC News, May 3, 2022
April 2022
Out of Workers, Canada Is Throwing Its Doors Open to Migrants
Bloomberg News, April 29, 2022
‘COVID acted like a minefield’: What we know about migrant-worker deaths
TVO, April 9, 2022
Expanding temporary foreign worker program just means 'more exploitable workers': advocate
CBC Radio, April 6, 2022
Hundreds attend migrant worker health fair in Leamington
CBC News, April 6, 2022
Ottawa expands access to temporary foreign workers to ease labour crunch
Globe and Mail, April 4, 2022
March 2022
A ‘troubling narrative’ has been revealed within Canada’s system to help abused migrant workers
Toronto Star, March 23, 2022
Migrant workers make our agricultural industry viable. Why do we treat them as disposable?
Toronto Star, March 21, 2022
February 2022
B.C. residents fight to get migrants who lost work during floods $280,000 payout
Vancouver Sun, February 4, 2022
‘Unethical and inappropriate’: What coroners’ records reveal about the gaps that led to migrant worker deaths
The Toronto Star, February 1, 2022
January 2022
Two years into a pandemic, not much has changed for migrant workers
CityNews, January 25, 2022
Mexican worker killed after falling from Leamington greenhouse leaves behind a daughter
CBC, January 21, 2022
Death of quarantined migrant worker under investigation in Essex County
Windsor Star, January 20, 2022
Migrant worker advocate calls recent actions 'Band-Aid' solutions for 'gushing wound'
CBC, January 17, 2022
Windsor, Ont.-area businesses instructed to halt entry of temporary foreign workers
Global News, January 12, 2022
Canada Loosens Foreign-Worker Cap for Desperate Quebec Companies
Bloomberg, January 10, 2022
Three-to-a-bunkhouse rule terminated
Simcoe Reformer, January 10, 2022