Migration

GroundWire | October 9, 2017

GroundWire Production — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 01:42:23 +0000

Wild Salmon Protectors demonstration, Rally in Quebec welcomes Refugees, and Racism in Winnipeg

This episode of GroundWire is hosted by participants attending the Grassroots Radio Confere

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GroundWire | Feb 27

GroundWire Production — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 21:37:24 +0000

Sanctuary City, Workers in Halifax Commemorate Strike, Indigenous Writing and Literacy

This episode of GroundWire was produced on Haudenosaunee and Anishinabe traditional territory in Kingston by CFRC.

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Have a Heart Day - a child and youth-led reconciliation event | Doug Farquhar, CFRC

Food service workers strike at the University of Toronto’s satellite campus in Scarborough | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah, GW

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Tent City Vancouver, #JusticeforAbdiRahman, CRTC dismissal of Commissioner Shoan

GroundWire Production — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:33:10 +0000

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GroundWire November 9, 2015

GroundWire Production — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 03:54:31 +0000

Vigil for Native women, World Kobane day, Montreal dumps sewage into St. Lawrence

This episode of GroundWire was produced on traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the New Credit by the GroundWire National Coordination Team in Toronto. Hosted by Carly Forbes and Jayal Chung at CILU in Thunder Bay.

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Ontario banning of police racist carding practices | Omme-Salm

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GroundWire | September 28, 2015

GroundWire Production — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:07:44 +0000

National Radio from a Grassroots Perspective

This episode of GroundWire was produced on the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the New Credit by the GroundWire National Coordination Team.

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GroundWire | September 15, 2015

GroundWire Production — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 22:16:19 +0000

This episode of GroundWire was produced on traditional Mohawk territory at CKUT in Montreal.

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GroundWire | June 22, 2015

GroundWire Production — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 04:28:52 +0000

Red Jam Slam Radio Festival, Bill C-24, Thunder Pride, Refugee Healthcare

This episode of GroundWire was produced in Tiohtià:ke also known as Montreal on unceded Mohawk territory by Marilla Steuter-Martin and co-hosted by Catlin Spencer at CJLO 690 am.

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Librarians and Archivists with Palestine Launches New Website and Solidarity Network

Ashley Fortier — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 19:13:25 +0000

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Blacklisting Migrant Workers

valcroft — Tue, 06 May 2014 16:53:47 +0000

Guatemalans speaking out against abuse expelled from temporary foreign worker program

GUATEMALA CITY—When Jose Sicajau left his community in Guatemala to participate in Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program, he hoped to make enough money doing seasonal agriculture work to be able to provide for his family back home.

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Undocumented Labour

dawn — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:18:28 +0000

Changes to refugee health care put women and babies at risk

MONTREAL—Violet worked as a secretary and raised her two teenage children by herself. Her husband had been killed two years previously. After his death, Violet moved to another town and “kept quiet” but a year later, her cousin advised her that she was in danger, so she prepared to move from Mexico to Canada and make a refugee claim.

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August in Review

dawn — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:45:06 +0000

Threats to salmon, sundance grounds, and Syria

On August 11, over 100 migrants and their supporters

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Governing Gender

taramichelle — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:10:15 +0000

Transgender activists fight for crucial changes to Quebec’s Civil Code

MONTREAL—Deena* emigrated from Jordan to Quebec in March 2010, hopeful about settling in a city where she could live safely as a transgender woman. Instead, she found herself caught in a multi-year long administrative nightmare.

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Welcome to Prison Nation

correybaldwin — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:45:44 +0000

Canada uses prisons to detain newly arrived asylum-seekers

MONTREAL―After arriving in Canada in 2007 and settling in Montreal, Uma, a Sri Lankan Tamil refugee, learned that some of his peers had been sent to ja

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Borderless Cities

Hillary — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:44:12 +0000

Sanctuary cities for migrants taking root across Canada

MONTREAL—Undocumented migrants face significant barriers when it comes to accessing education, healthcare, food aid and other essential services in Canada. A new campaign to build “sanctuary cities” across the country, however, is making urban services more accessible to those without papers.

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Ten Stories, Ten Years

dawn — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:00:00 +0000

Our editors' favourite Dominion stories from the past decade

From Nova Scotia to British Columbia, from a photocopied zine to a printed magazine distributed on newsstands across Canada, The Dominion has changed a lot over the past decade. But we've kept doing what's most important to our readers across the country: putting out news and analysis that breaks with the status quo.

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