Tag: Migrant farm workers
10 months ago
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Migrant farm workers win cash and more in wake of OPP’s DNA-sweep ‘discrimination’

The Ontario Provincial Police has struck an agreement with 53 migrant farm workers who were subjected to a DNA canvas...

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about 1 year ago
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Cold reception. Back-breaking work. Cruel comments: How a migrant worker learned to fight back

In just over a decade in Canada, St. Vincent native Gabriel Allahdua has transformed himself from a migrant farm work...

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about 1 year ago
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Sly stickers redirect restaurant diners from menu to stories of mistreated farm workers

Eatery patrons who scan these QR codes are brought to advocates’ ‘secret menu’ page that sheds light on the working c...

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over 1 year ago
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They were hunting for a rapist, but OPP ended up walking over migrant farm workers’ rights, tribu...

Ontario’s human rights watchdog says the OPP violated the rights of Leon Logan and others as authorities hunted for a...

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over 3 years ago
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Could new COVID-19-testing rules keep some migrant farm workers out of Canada?

Ottawa’s new rules requiring negative COVID-19 test results for all travellers entering Canada will create another ro...

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over 3 years ago
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Stuck in Canada, hundreds of migrant farm workers get help from federal government

Hundreds of Trinidadian migrant workers have been issued open work permits to stay in Canada after they found themsel...

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over 3 years ago
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‘We don’t have winter clothes or boots’: These migrant farm workers toiled through the pandemic. ...

After finishing the harvest season, migrant farm workers from Trinidad & Tobago can’t return home due to their countr...

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