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Canadian Immigration Projects In Danger On the Eve of Election

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by Maria on May 1, 2011

I’ve had the chance to work with a York Region Immigration settlement worker this week in programs that are threatened by cuts to immigration organizations. I watched an immigrant mother cry because her son was not adapting to his new classroom. I saw another immigrant mom concerned about her son who had just been suspended. [...]

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Migrant Workers in Danger in Ontario

There are two worlds in Ontario. On Christmas Eve of 2009 I was getting ready to sit down to a traditional dinner with my family while five migrant construction workers fell from a swing stage platform that snapped in two. The platform hovered 13 floors above Kipling Ave on an apartment that had been undergoing [...]

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Angela Davis: Activism With Depth

By Maria Calleja Countless students wanted to catch a glimpse of activist Angela Davis at the Accolade East theatre at York University on Feb. 3rd 2010. After the 500 seat theatre at York was filled to capacity other students were filed into a lecture hall to watch a telecast of the famous ex black panther [...]

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The New Ecochic

By Maria Calleja You don’t have to be a hippie in Birkenstocks to fight for environmental change. That’s what the Regenesis Project proved with their latest fundraising event at the Arta Gallery in the distillery district on September 24th. Politicians, artists, students and business people mingled, Tea Martinis in hand, looking at pieces of local [...]

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York Federation of Students and Labour – A Perfect Union?

By Maria Calleja At this year’s Labour Day Parade the York Federation of Students were present to walk in solidarity with thousands of union representatives, workers and unemployed Ontarians. The YFS union has dealt with its share of controversy over the past academic year as they supported the demands of CUPE 3903 strikers in the [...]

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