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Migrant coalition slams secrecy of policy review

Migrant workers shut out of secretive closed door immigration consultations Posted on July 6, 2016 By Ted Alcuitas A coalition of migrant workers today slammed the government’s secretive consultations on immigration policy. The Coalition for Migrant Worker Rights Canada, the representative body of migrant workers released a statement denouncing the exclusion of migrant workers from […]

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Scrap temporary status for foreign workers – Migrante

Temporary workers tell of exploitation By Ted Alcuitas Vancouver, B. C. _ The Coalition for Migrant Workers Rights Canada today calls on the government to admit temporary foreign workers as permanent residents and give them open work permits. In a press conference at the B.C. Teacher’s Federation offices, the group press anew their demand for

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Another caregiver dies in ‘hit and run’ in Surrey

Surrey, B.C. Another Pinay caregiver killed in ‘hit and run’ accident By Ted Alcuitas Less than a week after the death of a caregiver hit by two cars in Vancouver, another one died in a ‘hit and run’ crash in Surrey, B. C. Josie Belcourt, 57, was hit on March 14 by a grey 2010

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Philippine government cancels licenses of recruitment agencies

InterAksyon.com means BUSINESS March 19, 2016 MANILA, Philippines — Attention overseas Filipino workers, the following is a list of recruitment agencies whose licenses to recruit and send workers abroad have been cancelled.  The list was taken from the records of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration which issued final and executory orders against them, indicating respective

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Lawyer Fay Faraday calls for action for migrant workers

Vancouver, B.C. Noted lawyer speaks at Migrante Gala By Ted Alcuitas Noted constitutional and human rights lawyer Fay Faraday will speak at the Migrante B. C. gala fund-raising dinner on Friday, March 18 at the Holiday Inn on Broadway. The Toronto-based lawyer will speak on “Moving Forward Together: Building Migrant Worker Security” to critically assess

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Caregiver dies in car-pedestrian accident-funds needed to bring her home

Vancouver,B.C. Friends and supporters start ‘abuloy’ thru Go Fund Me By Ted Alcuitas “It’s very hard to accept that the only box we are waiting for now would contain her remains,” says the son of Lucia Velasco who died last Tuesday (March 8, 2016) in a car-pedestrian accident in east Vancouver. The 51-year old Velasco

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Migrante BC: Statement on International Women’s Day

MIGRANTE BC March 8, 2016 As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, Migrante BC, a community-based organization committed to the protection and promotion of the rights and welfare of Filipino immigrants and migrant workers in British Columbia, stands in solidarity with the women in the Philippines and around the globe in their struggle against labour

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Franco Orr sentencing gets another delay

Vancouver, B.C. The man who was previously convicted of trafficking a Filipina caregiver from Hong Kong three years ago but won an appeal, is to appear in court on March 9 to set a date for his sentencing. The identity of the Filipina cannot be revealed due to a court publication ban. Franco Orr, whose

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Caregiver still waiting 17 years to bring family

Toronto 17 years and still waiting – a caregiver’s elusive dream By Ted Alcuitas She will be 61 next month – 17 years after she arrived in Canada as a caregiver but she is still not reunited with her family, a problem caused by a bungling immigration bureaucracy, according to a Toronto Star story. She

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