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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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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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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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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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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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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