“Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney has so far failed to agree to repeated requests by national health care organizations for a meeting to discuss cuts to the Interim Federal Health Program IFHP providing health benefits to refugees.” Read more: via CMAJ: Health care organizations wait to talk to citizenship minister about.
“Budapest, 8 March 2013: Roma from Aubervilliers have faced multiple evictions, with disproportionate use of police force, after their settlement was burned down last month. The European Roma Rights Centre and Médecins du Monde sent a letter to French authorities asking them to provide assistance for the families.” Read more: via Roma in France Face … Continue reading
“Greek police have launched an investigation into the country’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party after one of its members threatened to turn immigrants “into soap” and put them in “ovens”. In the Channel 4 television documentary shot by Konstantinos Georgousis, Alexandros Plomaritis, who ran for parliament in last year’s election, is seen calling migrants living in Athens … Continue reading
“The latest issue of Der Spiegel magazine reports that while no one in the German government has ever officially stated the policy (and probably never will), it is completely evident whom it targets: Germany has been rattled by the immigration of Romani people from Bulgaria and Romania, which is why it doesn’t want to open … Continue reading
“Canadian doctors who have launched a legal challenge against the federal government’s cuts to health benefits for refugees promise further protests and disruption of federal Cabinet ministers’ announcements, starting this spring. Medical students and residents who have “never been in the streets before, never protested” are rallying around this issue and will join other health … Continue reading
From February 25: “… Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care (CDRC) and the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers (CARL), along with three individual patients, asked the Federal Court to declare that federal government health cuts to refugee claimants are unconstitutional and illegal.” Read more: via PRESS RELEASE: Doctors and Lawyers Challenge Federal Health Cuts to Refugees … Continue reading
“OTTAWA — As the federal government seeks a new boss for the Immigration and Refugee Board, one former chairman is raising concerns about the potential for bias. … Peter Showler argues that opens the door to patronage since there’s no mechanism to ensure transparency or accountability. More importantly, he said, it means the government could … Continue reading
“Looking back on Canada’s last decade of immigration, two trends are obvious: One is the exponential growth of temporary foreign workers. Tens of thousands of migrant workers fill the endless labour shortage in jobs and places of which Canadians typically have no interest. Second is the federal government’s stepped-up effort on border control, from a … Continue reading
“Canada has a less than stellar record historically when it comes to immigration policy, having rejected or excluded Indians, Chinese, Jews and Blacks during various periods over the past century. Today, the country no longer discriminates based on the colour of an applicant’s skin or religion. But simply having an immigration policy discriminates or excludes … Continue reading
“Canada is adding another eight countries to a list of safe places, making it harder for refugee claimants from those countries to get asylum. Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says he’s adding Mexico, Israel, Australia and others to a list of “designated countries of origin,” safe countries whose refugee claimants have a streamlined process … Continue reading
