Newswire
In this section, you find a newsfeed that tracks current articles, blog posts and events about immigration, integration, diversity in leadership and other topics of interest to Maytree.
- Ottawa Citizen: Sharing secrets with bad guys
January 22, 2009: Late last week, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced that it would not oppose the release of 25 Tamil refugee claimants who were in detention. It was a modest announcement that did not attract much media attention but there is a story behind it that should cause us to consider the role of Canada’s security agencies when dealing with refugee claimants. - Toronto Star: Flemingdon Park's long, cold trek for groceries
January 18, 2010: Flemingdon Park's only supermarket long gone, like the lone bank branch that left shopping plaza. - Toronto Star: 13 neighbourhoods in need
January 16, 2010: It has been four years since the launch of an ambitious campaign to lift up Toronto's 13 most troubled neighbourhoods. Millions of dollars later, it's not clear what that effort has achieved. How does a city measure hope? - Toronto Star: Indo-Canadian entrepreneurs make their mark
January 13, 2010: "There really has been a demographic and societal shift that is going on right now that is really interesting," says Agrawal. "We all know the typical story of the struggling immigrant. But what about the immigrants who made it? And how did they do it?" - The Toronto Star: A Mez-merizing list of city-specific ideas
Better Ballots, a fledgling citizens' movement to push for change in city elections. ALEJANDRA BRAVO, DESMOND COLE and NEETHAN SHAN are some of the "Better Balloteers". - Toronto Star: Thorncliffe Park community crowded, stressed
January 11: Severe overcrowding and poverty is heightening stress and ethnic tensions in Canada's most populated immigrant neighbourhood, says a study of the Thorncliffe Park community released Monday. - Toronto Star: Visa clampdown near for Hungarian visitors
January 9, 2010: Ottawa is seriously considering imposing visa requirements on visitors from Hungary to cut off a growing flood of refugee applicants, mainly from its Roma community, The Canadian Press has learned. - The United Church Observer: A national disgrace
January 2010: Sixty percent of children living on First Nations reserves do not graduate from high school. Aboriginal leaders and educators agree: something must be done to fix Native schooling. - The Philippine Reporter: Recognizing foreign credentials
January 4, 2010: One would think that everything is rosy and promising for immigrants to come and work in Canada. It is almost as good as true if one relies on government reports and documents alone. But the reality is starkly the opposite. - Toronto Sun: $50 million for foreign-trained workers down the tubes
January 5, 2009: The announcement by the federal government in December that recognition of foreign-trained workers' credentials will be expedited is a welcome development toward the equitable employment of immigrants. However, it falls far short of having a major impact. The most important -- and missing -- factor in efforts to ensure employment for immigrant professionals, is the employer. - The Globe and Mail: Ratna Omidvar (Nation Builder: Citizenship)
January 2, 2010: One of the remarkable features of Canada's last decade is the degree to which a widespread consensus on immigration has taken hold. Ratna Omidvar, a leading advocate for settlement and integration, has been particularly influential in nudging Canada toward this new consensus. - Toronto Star: Why Canadians should feel proud
December 26, 2009: Whatever missteps have been made by leaders at the national level, we have much reason feel pride in the accomplishments of our fellow Canadians. In almost every sphere, Canadians this year achieved breakthroughs, were recognized for their deeds or made a difference in people's lives. - TheRecord.com - Local - Immigrant council hopes to fill in gaps
December 15, 2009: Immigrant settlement agencies have traditionally worked on their own, trying to assist newcomers with basic settlement issues such as finding housing, a doctor or obtaining a driver’s licence. - The Globe and Mail: As countries shut out migrants, Canada warned it will become the new safe harbour
December 16, 2009: The worst recession in a generation has already played havoc with the job market, housing prices and the banking system. Now it's doing the same with something else: the worldwide movement of people. - Tandem - Online magazine: Always a welcoming place for immigrants
December 2009: An open door policy, then and now. Since the ’60s, COSTI has recognized the importance of social cohesiveness – an essential piece in what is the puzzle of a multi-ethnically rich society like Canada’s. COSTI has never stopped evolving. And it will continue to expand, COSTI president Bruno M. Suppa explained, as long as it continues to be “recognized by the government and the working world as being valuable to immigrants and their contribution to the economy and the country’s well-being.” - Toronto Star Editorial: Senators join fight on poverty
December 15, 2009: The poor will always be with us. It is a common refrain used to make us feel there is little we can do about the millions of Canadians who cannot afford to keep a roof over their head and food on the table. - Toronto Star: Voices: Remembering David Pecaut
"He made the extremely difficult, if not sometimes the impossible, he made it appear possible and doable. That was his greatest gift." – Ratna Omidvar Maytree Foundation president - Toronto Star Editorial: David Pecaut's vision
December 15, 2009: He was a dreamer, a booster, a builder. David Pecaut died yesterday, cut down by cancer at 54, but his legacy is destined to endure in his adopted city because he stitched together remarkable coalitions for action on the big issues of our time: poverty, diversity, culture, the environment. - The Globe and Mail: Toronto visionary David Pecaut succumbs to cancer
December 14, 2009: “I am very much at peace with death,” he told the Globe, his breathing assisted by oxygen, his voice raspy, but still waving the flag in his favourite black Luminato t-shirt with its slogan about seeing the world in a new way. “I am surrounded by my loving family. I have received more love from this family in the last 20 years than most men would get in a hundred. I don't feel any sense of sorrow or regret. I feel in the time I have had that I have been lucky enough to do so much that it feels like a rich and full life.” - The Globe and Mail: In death, David Pecaut sets out a challenge for all Torontonians
December 15, 2009: Sometimes a death is more than a loss or a tragedy. Sometimes it is a challenge. When he died Monday, aged 54, David Pecaut threw down a dare to the people of Toronto. - Toronto Star: James: David Pecaut brought impossible to life
December 15, 2009: If ever someone deserved to live to a ripe old age, it was David Pecaut. For we know that every minute of his life was 60 seconds spent striving to improve the city region we call home. - Toronto Star: Knelman: David Pecaut, 54: 'Greatest mayor Toronto never had'
December 15, 2009: Passionate city-builder and Luminato co-founder David Pecaut has succumbed to cancer. He was 54. - CBC News - Toronto - New rules to protect foreign caregivers
December 12, 2009: Nannies and other home-care workers who come to Canada for jobs would be better protected from abuse and exploitation by their employers under proposed changes to rules governing live-in foreign caregivers, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Saturday. - The Canadian Press: Ottawa announces changes to protect foreign caregivers from abuse
December 13, 2009: The federal government announced steps Saturday to better safeguard foreign caregivers from abuse and exploitation, but opposition critics said the changes Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is proposing won't provide full protection. - Toronto Star: New nanny laws 'a start'
December 13, 2009: Critics of the government's new plans to protect foreign nannies from abuse say they were not allowed into Saturday's invitation-only announcement because of the objections they might raise. - Toronto Star: Ontario a loser in immigration points game
December 13, 2009: There is no doubt that the initiative by federal Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and Human Resources Minister Diane Finley to speed up the recognition of foreign credentials for new immigrants is a step in the right direction. But this initiative addresses the effect of the problem, not the cause. It addresses the issue of what to do when they are in Canada, not the question of why we have let them immigrate to Canada if their credentials are not recognized by the provinces and whether the provinces really need new immigrants with those credentials. - Toronto Star: Nannies anti-exploitation law passes
December 11, 2009: Nannies bravely told their stories of exploitation, their abusers were exposed, and lawmakers have acted. After a year-long Toronto Star investigation, a tough new Ontario law is in effect to protect vulnerable foreign caregivers who look after children, the infirm and the elderly. - Toronto Star: David Pecaut: a true city-builder for Toronto
December 10, 2009: David Pecaut wasted no time in getting to the key points of the open letter he sent Tuesday to friends and colleagues across Toronto. - Toronto Star: Agency hones job seekers' work skills
December 10, 2009: The recession has left an indelible mark on south Etobicoke, where factory closings have thrown more than 1,600 people out of work. - Cnmag.ca: The Magic of Mentoring
December 2009: Mentoring is all about empowering newcomers. When we begin the process of immigrating to another country, the immigration counsellors and lawyers who are in a position to advise us, tell us to make sure we have enough capital (money) to survive in a new country for at least six months, as it usually takes that long to get settled. But nobody talks about the social capital we leave behind. - Share News: Diversity training urged for public service managers
December 9, 2009: As part of a three-year strategic plan to keep pace with changing demographics and public expectations, the OPS launched an online diversity awareness course last June for employees to acquire a basic understanding of diversity. As of three weeks ago, 3,651 employees had completed the course while another 934 had registered. - CANADIAN MIGRATION INSTITUTE | CMI urges government to reconsider new temporary foreign worker regulations
December 9, 2009: The Canadian Migration Institute (CMI) is calling on the Federal government to revisit new regulations being proposed that will impede the availability of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) to businesses in key industries, which could hamper Canada's economic recovery. - Vancouver Sun: Diversity requires more than policies, practices, programs
December 4, 2009: For Cheryl Tjok-A-Tam, the last five years at the Royal Bank have been what she calls “a remarkable experience.” Tjok-A-Tam, 39, is a women of colour who came to Canada from her native Jamaica as a child. Through a heady combination of talent and the bank’s broad range of diversity and inclusion programs, she has risen quickly through the ranks and is now head of the program management office at RBC’s national contact centre in Mississauga, Ont - Mississauga.com: Newcomers guide helps immigrants adjust
December 4, 2009: A community-based, not-for-profit corporation has all the information newcomers need to adjust to life in Canada. The information is contained in an updated guide first published by the Peel Halton Workforce Development Group in 2007. The group unveiled the new guide today at the Mississauga Convention Centre. - Lawers Weekly: Foreign-trained lawyers face hurdles
December 11, 2009: Lawyers trained abroad who want to practise in Canada must overcome many hurdles, not least of which is having their legal education and experience recognized by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada (FLSC). - Vaughan Today: Libraries reach newcomers
December 8, 2009: Vaughan Public Libraries pulls a welcome wagon filled with programs and books for all newcomers. - Toronto Star: David Pecault's message to the city
December 9, 2009: We can be a city where collective leadership is the norm. A city where civic entrepreneurs are everywhere and the process of bringing all the parts of civil society together to solve a problem is really how the city defines its uniqueness - a city where this quality is the essence of what makes Toronto so special. - Toronto Star: A love letter to Toronto from an ailing visionary
December 9, 2009: In an open letter, an ailing David Pecaut has issued a call to arms for those who love Toronto, urging collective leadership, not negativity, to ensure the region's success. It's his blueprint for success – for his adopted hometown and the whole region. - Macleans.ca: Where to draw the line on child poverty
December 8, 2009: Introducing his famous motion in Parliament committing the government of Canada to abolish child poverty by the year 2000, NDP leader Ed Broadbent conjured a Dickensian vision of Canada. “Being a poor kid means box lunches from food banks and soup from soup kitchens. Mr. Speaker, to be a poor kid means trying to read or write or think on an empty stomach . . . One quarter of our children are wasting away.” The motion passed, unanimously. - The Globe and Mail: Hiring plans not keeping up with recovery
December 8, 2009: Canada's economic recovery may be gathering speed, but a new survey suggests the road remains bumpy for the labour market. - Toronto Sun: Slavery battle blasted
December 8, 2009: The province has again been slammed by an expert in human trafficking for failing to take steps necessary to protect victims from predators who profit from the human flesh trade. - The Globe and Mail: A new era for Canada rises in the East - The Globe and Mail
December 8, 2009: It is one thing for pundits and other wiseacres to declare that the Great Recession has thrown the West into relative decline, and the future lies with Asia. It is another thing for a Western leader to say so himself. - Videos | Global News: new jobs - where are they
December 7, 2009: Canada gained 79,000 jobs in November, with 27,000 of those new positions coming in Ontario. So where are these new jobs? Mark McAllister reports. Dec. 4 - CBC News - Politics - Backlog of refugee claims has grown under Conservatives
December 4, 2009: The backlog of people waiting to have their refugee claims heard has tripled since the Conservatives came to power, statistics show. The wait times have increased despite the government's criticism that delays open the door for so-called bogus refugees to stay in the country. - Toronto Star: Unlikely beauty queen
December 5, 2009: After fleeing her native Zimbabwe, arriving in Toronto alone, living in a Salvation Army shelter, getting first an undergraduate degree in Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto and then a master's degree in history and ethnic and pluralism studies and founding the Humane Migration Institute, Andriata Chironda decided it was time for a little fun. - Boosting Your Cultural IQ | U of T Programs that Help Immigrants with their Careers
December 2009: In July 2005, Norma Mendez’s career screeched to a stop. In San Luis Potosí, Mexico, she had headed human resources for the Latin American operations of a multinational corporation. She flew from city to city, recruiting, training, chairing meetings, and enjoying her life as a coveted executive. Then Mendez moved to Toronto, where the employment guru had to pound the pavement for eight months before finding someone who recognized her skill set and offered her a job. “I really struggled,” says Mendez. “Everyone asked for Canadian work experience and, of course, I didn’t have any. I could have been the president of my old country, and they still wouldn’t have hired me.” - rabble.ca: Community and labour groups decry Canada's immigration system
December 4, 2009: Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is under fire from community and labour groups who gathered outside his regional office in Toronto Wednesday to protest his proposed changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker program and what they called the failures of the immigration system. - CBC News - Calgary - Bogus modelling offers lured girls, allege Calgary police
December 3, 2009: Social networking sites are easy places to lure young women with empty promises, say experts, after a Calgary man was charged with human trafficking. - The Globe and Mail: Defining necessities
December 4, 2009: Like the underlying condition itself, measuring poverty has never been easy or simple. Yet an intriguing innovation from the government of Ontario this week breaks new ground on the topic. It may not be perfect, but it's a perfectly good way to start a debate on improving poverty measurement in Canada. - Canada faces widespread e-health skills shortage - IT Workplace
December 2009: While the Ontario government is dealing with the political fallout of the eHealth Ontario scandal and Ottawa reviews its funding commitments to Canada Health Infoway, a new research report suggests Canada may need to fill approximately 12,000 IT-related health-care jobs within the next five years. - South Asian Focus - The Voice of Brampton's South Asian Community
December 2, 2009: Does regulation by provincial watchdogs - who for instance keep doctors from practising as Canada's wait-times grow longer, or engineers from using their professional skills as Ontario's manufacturing industry dies and heads offshore - does such regulation serve the public interest? - Toronto Star: Credentials fight is far from over
December 3, 2009: When foreign-trained doctors apply for accreditation to work in Ontario, they generally wait four to six weeks to get an answer. Pharmacists wait about two weeks and engineers six weeks for decisions from their professional regulatory bodies on whether their foreign credentials will be recognized here. - Canada’s CAs onside with framework to improve foreign credential recognition | Chartered Accountants of Canada
December 2, 2009: Canada’s Chartered Accountants welcome a framework established by governments across the country aimed at enhancing foreign qualification recognition for internationally trained workers. - Toronto Star: Where are you on the Deprivation Index?
December 2, 2009: One in eight Ontario children is living in poverty, according to a new provincial measure released Wednesday that looks at whether families can afford items on a list of basic necessities. - Vancouver Sun: Making full use of our skilled immigrants must be a national priority
December 2, 2009: The national agreement announced by the feds this week to make it easier for immigrants to have their credentials assessed is both welcome and long overdue. - Montreal Gazette: At last, a deal on foreign credentials
December 2, 2009: It's a cliché that's all too familiar in every big city across Canada: "I was an architect back home," your cab driver tells you in accented English or French. "They told me they would accept my credentials but I've been here four years and I'm still waiting." - Toronto Star: MD groups told to cut the red tape
December 2, 2009: Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is accusing physicians' organizations in the provinces of dragging their feet in the effort to speed up recognition of foreign-trained doctors. - Toronto Star: Advisers aim to fix Ontario's welfare 'quagmire'
December 2, 2009: Ontario has appointed the head of Toronto's Daily Bread Food Bank to head a panel of anti-poverty advocates to advise the government on a long-awaited review of its welfare system, the Star has learned. - The Globe and Mail: Knowledge shared
December 2, 2009: The federal-provincial foreign-credentials framework announced this week is a substantial step forward toward an immigration policy that would reliably achieve its goals. - Engineering Regulator Welcomes Federal Move to Help Newcomers
December 1, 2009: As a leader among regulators in Canada in assessing the credentials of internationally trained professionals, Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) applauds the direction by the federal government to enhance foreign qualification recognition for internationally trained workers. - National Post: No more doctors driving cabs
December 1, 2009: Talk of making it easier for foreign-trained professionals to have their credentials recognized so they may practice in Canada has been around since at least the 1980s when the Mulroney government more than doubled the number of immigrants admitted to Canada every year. Now, instead of just talk, it appears as if Ottawa and the provinces are finally going to take action. Yesterday, federal Human Resources and Immigration ministers Diane Finley and Jason Kenney announced that they have agreement from the provinces that by the end of 2012, most skilled immigrants will have to wait no more than a year after they arrive to have their academic credentials evaluated. - Economic Times: Canada fast-tracks recognition of immigrant degrees
December 1, 2009: Canada, where a majority of new immigrants cannot find work in their chosen fields because of non-acceptance of their degrees, Monday announced to fast-track recognition of foreign credentials. - Canada News Centre - Federal, provincial and territorial governments speed up foreign credential recognition for newcomers to Canada
November 30, 2009: Under the new Pan-Canadian Framework for the Assessment and Recognition of Foreign Qualifications, foreign-trained workers who submit an application to be licensed or registered to work in certain fields will be advised within one year whether their qualifications will be recognized. The Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development and Co-Chair of the Forum of Labour Market Ministers, and the Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, today endorsed a new framework to enhance foreign qualification recognition for internationally trained workers. - Toronto Star: Deal to speed credentials for foreign professionals
November 30, 2009: The federal government and the provinces are unveiling a major agreement on Monday to help foreign-trained professionals get their credentials recognized in Canada. - The Globe and Mail: Wait times reduced on foreign credentials
November 30, 2009: Foreign-trained workers will be told within one year of applying whether their credentials will allow them to work in their profession in Canada, the federal government announced Monday. - Winnipeg Free Press: Ottawa to let immigrants know sooner if credentials acceptable in Canada - Winnipeg Free Press
November 30, 2009: The federal Conservatives are planning to reduce the time it takes for internationally-trained workers to have their foreign credentials recognized. - National Post: Workers trained abroad get boost
November 30, 2009: Foreign-trained architects, nurses and engineers are among new immigrants who will get first crack at having their credentials recognized within one year under a new federal-provincial accord to be announced today. - News @ UofT: Rotman program for internationally trained women professionals receives $2 million boost from government of Ontario
November 26, 2009: The Rotman Initiative for Women in Business is among 16 new bridge training programs funded by the Government of Ontario. The $2 million in funding to the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, as part of an announcement made Wednesday in Mississauga, will support Business Edge, a program for internationally trained women professionals. - South Asian News: Open doors to foreign trained professionals, watchdogs told
November 26, 2009: The federal government is unequivocally telling the 400-plus Canadian professional licensing bodies: "It's time to open up your doors to foreign trained professionals." - National Post: Money can't end poverty
November 26, 2009: Twenty years ago, Canada's Parliamentarians passed an ambitious (and naive) resolution calling for an end to child poverty by 2000, as if there were some magic lantern that could be rubbed to make the problem disappear. Now on the 20th anniversary of that resolution, the anti-child-poverty lobby Campaign 2000 is complaining that very little has changed. - Metro - Database aims to link foreign engineers to jobs in Canada
November 25, 2009: Despite being the largest cohort of skilled immigrants to Canada, internationally trained engineers have been locked out of the profession for years — only 15 per cent find work in their field. - The Globe and Mail: Earnings gap a 'troubling' trend
November 24, 2009: very immigration story begins with high hopes: A new home in a safe, prosperous country, a job that matches the immigrant's training, and a rate of pay that reflects the person's qualifications. - Toronto Star: Immigrants trail on wages and jobs - thestar.com
November 24, 2009: Immigrants face lower wages and are more likely than Canadian-born workers to be forced into temporary or part-time jobs, according to a new study. - The Daily, Monday, November 23, 2009. Study: Quality of employment in the Canadian immigrant labour market
November 23, 2009: In 2008, there were key differences in many indicators of quality of employment between immigrants and non-immigrants. On average, immigrant wages were lower, while rates of involuntary part-time work, temporary employment and over-qualification were higher. For immigrants who landed in Canada more than 10 years ago, however, the indicators of quality of employment more closely resembled those of the Canadian born. - The Gobe and Mail: Immigrants overqualified, earn less
November 23, 2009: Newcomers to Canada tend to see lower wages and higher rates of involuntary part-time work, temporary jobs and over-qualification, a new study suggests. - StarTribune.com - Editorial: The economic case for immigration
November 20, 2009: In the shallow, often misinformed rhetoric over immigration, we too seldom hear the case for reform made in economic terms. - The 2008 Canadian Immigrant Labour Market: Analysis of Quality of Employment
- Toronto Star: Good news on diversity
November 17, 2009: Greater Toronto is one of the most immigrant-rich regions on Earth but you would be hard pressed to know it wandering the halls of finance, government and culture. - The Globe and Mail: Ottawa moves to remodel Canada's image
November 11, 2009: The Conservative government will redefine what it means to be Canadian this week by introducing a new guide to citizenship, a rare and significant attempt to reshape the national image. - National Post: Report suggests road tolls, parking and fuel taxes for GTA
November 10, 2009: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development says the greater Toronto area could tackle gridlock by creating incentives to get people out of cars, such as congestion tolls, parking and fuel taxes and high occupancy toll lanes. - Toronto Star: Public discussion on guest workers
November 5, 2009: Canada prides itself on being a nation of immigrants, but it is fast becoming a clearing house for temporary workers. - The Globe and Mail: In the right direction
November 4, 2009: Canada's increasing selectivity with regard to refugee claimants, revealed in a recent report of the government to Parliament, should be seen in conjunction with other aspects of Canada's immigrant and refugee system. Canada is still an open and welcoming country, and the government is showing concern for refugees who are in the greatest danger. But many other aspects of the system need to be improved. - canadianimmigrant.ca: Auditor General reveals flaws in immigration system
November 2009: Auditor General Sheila Fraser says Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has made key decisions — including measures taken in 2008 to limit the number of new applications in the skilled category of immigration — that were not based on sufficient analysis, including potential side effects. - Temporary workers program is a time bomb - thestar.com
November 5, 2009: The Stephen Harper Conservatives have adopted one of the worst policies of authoritarian oil-rich Arab states: an exploitative system of indentured labour, a.k.a. the temporary workers program. - Toronto Star: 'Guest worker' abuses blasted
November 4, 2009: Lack of oversight by the federal government has allowed foreign workers to be abused by their employers, Auditor General Sheila Fraser says in a scathing report on Canada's immigration program. - The Canadian Press: Reforms to fast track skilled immigrants a bust so far: auditor general
November 3, 2009: Vaunted reforms to fast track skilled immigrants and quickly plug gaps in Canada's labour force have not lived up to advance billing, says Auditor General Sheila Fraser. - Toronto Star: Manitoba welcome host for guest workers in Canada
November 3, 2009: The immigration system, groaning under a massive backlog, is widely seen as incapable of meeting labour demands. So last year, 192,519 foreigners were brought in with work permits of up to three years – almost double the number that arrived in 2003. - The Globe & Mail: Auditor-General sounds alarm on immigration policy
November 3, 2009: Lack of follow-up by the federal government on employers of foreign workers could expose the workers to abuse, Auditor General Sheila Fraser says in a scathing report on Canada's immigration programs. - Toronto Star: Foreign workers vulnerable, Fraser warns
November 3, 2009: Lack of follow-up by the federal government on employers of foreign workers could expose the workers to abuse, Auditor General Sheila Fraser says in a scathing report on Canada's immigration programs. - Ottawa Citizen: Immigration Minister Jason Kenney cuts refugee targets for 2010
November 2, 2009: Canada plans to cut substantially the number of refugees it will accept in the coming year from people who make their claim after arriving in the country, according to new government figures. - Toronto Sun: Canada's secret shame
November 1, 2009: A look at how different provincial governments are addressing human trafficking. - Toronto Star: Star Investigation: A temporary worker's Catch-22
November 2, 2009: Fair isn't a word commonly used to describe Canada's controversial program for foreigners working here temporarily. It's widely criticized for being poorly monitored and for leaving workers vulnerable to abuse. - Toronto Sun: The story of Eve
November 1, 2009: Several requests for comment from Premier Dalton McGuinty regarding the province's lack of strategy to combat human trafficking and lack of services geared toward trafficking survivors were denied. Instead, a spokesman for Ontario's attorney general's office e-mailed a list of programs that fall under the Ontario Victim Services Secretariat -- programs that are mostly reserved for those involved in the criminal justice process. - Thought > Action > Impact: Diversifying Public Boards
October 2009: Toronto’s Maytree Foundation facilitates change through leadership. Nice words but what do they mean? In the case of Maytree’s DiverseCity: The Greater Toronto Leadership Project, specifically its DiverseCity onBoard initiative. - Toronto Star: Coyle: Life in politics a 'badge of honour'
October 30, 2009: It's unlikely much that comes his way – as either MPP for Ottawa Centre or, starting Saturday, president of the Ontario Liberal party – will strike Yasir Naqvi as the worst that politics has to offer. - London Free Press: Giving to community constant quest: author
October 29, 2009: "Giving back to the community" is a phrase one of Canada's notable entrepreneurs and philanthropists dislikes. It conveys the idea that you spend part of your life making a fortune and building a reputation and then, when the time is right, you give something back, Alan Broadbent said. - Toronto Star: Fixing the refugee mess
October 28, 2009: Peter Showler, a former chair of the Immigration and Refugee Board, has proposed a more nuanced set of fixes to ensure that every inland claimant still gets a fair hearing, but far more expeditiously. Showler would create a new refugee tribunal, staffed not by political appointees but solely on merit. He'd also streamline the system to decide cases in 13 months, not four to six years. The tribunal would hear claims within six months, instead of 18 months now. Appeals would be heard within four months, instead of years. And those who lose appeals would be deported within three months. - Toronto Star: Mexican woman deported to her death
October 23, 2009: "A woman between the ages of 20 and 30 was found murdered – and with evidence of childbirth – with blows to her body and a bullet in the forehead, a classic revenge from drug trafficking," said a June 5 story in the Mexican newspaper El Informador de Jalisco. - Toronto Star: Diverse models on Toronto's catwalks
October 21, 2009: No other runways in the world authentically embrace the concept of diversity like those in Toronto. - TheStar.com | Ontario | Database validates immigrant records of credentials
September 28, 2009: A university transcript in a foreign language. A postgraduate degree from a school Canadians have never heard of. A list of unverified overseas work experience.
