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Migrant Dreams : The Story of migrant agricultural workers struggling against Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP)

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A powerful feature documentary by multiple award-winning director Min Sook Lee (El Contrato, Hogtown, Tiger Spirit) and Emmy award-winning producer Lisa Valencia-Svensson (Herman’s House), tells the undertold story of migrant agricultural workers struggling against Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) that treats foreign workers as modern-day indentured labourers. Under the rules of Canada’s migrant labour […]

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Ottawa ends ‘4-in-4-out’ rule for migrant workers

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By Nicholas Keung | Immigration reporter The Star Canada Liberal government eliminates notorious rule that kicked out migrant workers after four years, ending what critics dubbed the ‘revolving door’ for indentured labour to Canada. Ottawa has eliminated the notorious “4-in-4-out” rule that kicked out migrant workers after four years, ending what some critics call the

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Mac’s Convenience Stores facing class-action lawsuit from temporary foreign workers

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18 December 2015, CBC News Hundreds of temporary foreign workers have launched a class action lawsuit against Mac’s Convenience Stores, claiming they paid more than $8,000 to get jobs in Canada that did not exist. The notice of claim, filed with the B.C. Supreme Court, alleges that from December 2009 onwards the workers were recruited

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How Alberta’s oilsands boom opened doors to temporary foreign workers

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4 September 2015, The Toronto Star After lobbying by oil companies, the federal government allowed Alberta to recruit foreign workers faster than before. Gil McGowan was elected president of the Alberta Federation of Labour in 2005, just as oilsands development was starting to heat up. And he has been in the hot seat ever since.

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DOLE chief orders raps vs agency over Canada recruitment scam

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4 March 2015, Interaksyon MANILA, Philippines — Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz ordered Philippine Overseas Employment Administration chief Hans Leo Cacdac to investigate and file charges against officials and staff of a firm allegedly offering non-existent caregiver jobs in Canada. The order came after Baldoz was informed by labor attaché Leonida Romulo of the Philippine Overseas

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The role of labour market intermediaries in driving forced and unfree labour

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18 February 2015, Open Democracy There has been lots of talk about multinational corporations’ responsibility for fuelling forced labour.  But what about the labour market intermediaries who recruit and supply vulnerable workers to these firms? In many people’s minds, words like trafficking and modern slavery are associated with sexual exploitation, especially of women and children.

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Imelda Fronda Saluma charged in $1.5M immigration fraud scheme

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5 February 2015, CBC News A Toronto woman has been charged in connection with a scheme that defrauded would-be immigrant workers of more than $1.5 million, police say. The investigation into GoWest Jobs International, an employment recruiting agency on Finch Avenue West that specializes in immigrant workers, began in October last year. According to police,

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Ontario Human Rights Commission Warns Gender Discrimination in Migrant Recruitment a Human Rights Violation

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11 December 2014, MarketWired TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – Dec. 11, 2014) – The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has issued a statement regarding a recruitment program run by the federal government, in the wake of data pointing to the systemic exclusion of hiring women. The Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP), administered by the federal government, brings

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