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Legal groups respond to Trump's 'Muslim ban' and Islamophobia in Canada

January 31, 2017
| Listen in to a press conference by the B.C. Civil Liberties Association featuring legal groups that launched the Islamophobia Legal Assistance Hotline.
Length: 25:20 minutes (25.14 MB)
Image: Facebook/Ahmed Hussen
Trudeau's new immigration minister must tackle Harper's nasty refugee reforms
By
Karl Nerenberg
| January 13, 2017

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Toronto lawyer Ahmed Hussen is Canada's first refugee and immigration minister who was himself a refugee, and those who work with refugees are applauding his appointment.

It provides a huge contrast to the sort of cabinet appointments the president-elect is making south of the border -- mostly aging, paunchy, white billionaires.

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Needs No Introduction
Needs No Introduction

Lawrence Hill on his novel, 'The Illegal'

October 18, 2016
| From Octopus Books in Ottawa, author and journalist Waubgeshig Rice talks to Lawrence Hill about his novel "The Illegal."
Length: 53:51 minutes (56.52 MB)
Asia Pacific Currents
Asia Pacific Currents

More scandals hit Australia's concentration camp in Nauru

August 15, 2016
| Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region and update on the treatment of refugees in Australia's Nauru concentration camp.
Length: 29:22 minutes (13.45 MB)
Image: Ion Etxebarria, July 2016
Canada is about to deport me and my mother to racist, anti-Roma violence in Hungary
By
Gilda Lakatos
| August 2, 2016

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August 2 is the official date designated by the worldwide Roma community to commemorate the Devouring, the genocide suffered by the Romani people during the Second World War. It is not yet recognized by Canada or the United Nations.

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Talking Radical Radio
Talking Radical Radio

Challenging the marginalization of African refugees

July 13, 2016
| Kimbra Yohannes and Daniel Tseghay talk about the work of We Welcome African Refugees.
Length: 28:23 minutes (25.99 MB)
Redeye
Redeye

Indefinite detention, deaths of refugees spark hunger strike

May 7, 2016
| Advocates say that Canada's practice of detaining refugees indefinitely runs counter to both international law and the Charter of Rights of Freedoms. They're calling for a 90-day limit.
Length: 14:08 minutes (12.95 MB)
Photo: Binuri Ranasinghe/flickr
Apology doesn't address root cause of Chronicle Herald's mishandled refugee story
By
Stephen Kimber
| April 20, 2016

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Chronicle Herald publisher Sarah Dennis was contrite. Under the headline, "We Have Listened And Will Learn From This," she wrote about her newspaper's mishandling of the infamously viral story that "should not have been released."

She seemed forthright: "apologize," "failure of foresight," "acknowledge our mistakes," "accept and try to learn from criticism..."

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Asia Pacific Currents
Asia Pacific Currents

Refugees are workers -- let them stay

April 2, 2016
| Jiselle Hanna interviews Amanda Zifcik from the Refugee Action Collective.
Length: 29:32 minutes (10.14 MB)
Image: Flickr/2010 Legal Observers
We must reform Canada's expensive, ineffective and inhumane immigration detention system
By
Vince Wong
| March 30, 2016

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In the wake of the public outcry from two more deaths of immigration detainees over the past few weeks -- Melkioro Gahungu and Francisco Javier Romero Astorga -- the response from Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has been predictable.

Keep it quiet. Release as little information to the public as possible. Hope it goes away.

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