March 21, 2013
This website is for front-line workers and advocates who work with refugee claimants and others who have questions about their immigration status in Canada. It includes information on how to file a...
August 13, 2012
Given the significant changes in Canada’s refugee system contained in Bill C-31 and their many associated access to justice issues, it is to be expected that a number of organizations and individuals...
July 16, 2012
In late April 2012, the federal government announced a series of sweeping changes to the Interim Federal Health (IFH) program (http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/refugees/outside/arriving-healthcare.asp),...
July 16, 2012
The Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP) provides limited, temporary of health-care benefits to:
protected persons, including resettled refugees;
refugee claimants; and
certain other groups who...
May 24, 2012
The Richmond Low Income Resource Directory has a full list of services for low income people in Richmond.
May 1, 2012
The Human Resources Ministery has changed the rules so employers will now be allowed to pay foreign temp workers 15 per cent less than the average wage.
See the Canadian Council for Refugees and...
March 22, 2012
In 2009, Stephen Harper’s Conservative government changed the contents of the official citizenship guide that is given to all recent immigrants. The new version contained a lot more military history...
March 16, 2012
With housing prices at record levels, a University of British Columbia-led study finds that new Canadians are struggling to find adequate and affordable housing in the country’s three largest cities...
March 6, 2012
This website is a portal, or clearinghouse, of Public Legal Education and Information (PLEI) resources and information for those who are working with and for the migrant workers in the Province of...
December 6, 2011
Your Legal Rights is a website of legal information for people in Ontario. This site has free, practical, and easy-to-find legal information produced by hundreds of organizations across Ontario and...
