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Tag Archives: Immigration

Priest alleges Mexican victim’s family signed confidentiality agreement

January 28, 2014by David P. Ball Leave a comment

The sister of a Lucia Vega Jimenez, a Mexican woman who died in Canada Border Services Agency custody Dec. 28, alleged she signed a confidentiality agreement with authorities, according to the priest who visited the unconscious woman before she was taken off life support.

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24 Hours

Mexican woman dies in Canada Border Services custody

January 27, 2014by David P. Ball Leave a comment

The B.C. Coroners service has confirmed the death of a Mexican national who was being held by Canada Border Services Agency on Dec. 28

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24 Hours, Belleville Intelligencer, Brockville Recorder, Calgary Sun, Canoe.ca, Edmonton Examiner, Edmonton Sun, London Free Press, Sault Star, St Catharines Standard, Toronto Sun, Winnipeg Sun

Demolition halted for Japantown building

December 9, 2013by David P. Ball Leave a comment

A Chinese-Canadian association scrambling to save its 122-year-old Japantown building from demolition has received a reprieve.

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24 Hours

Trust of Care: Migrant women rally around undocumented moms-to-be

September 25, 2013by David P. Ball Leave a comment

Amidst hardening rhetoric against “illegal immigrants,” a network of health workers, many refugees themselves, have begun quietly filling gaps faced by non-status women in B.C.

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This Magazine

Woman asks McDonald’s for apology

August 20, 2013by David P. Ball Leave a comment

A Richmond resident is demanding a McDonald’s restaurant apologize after a manager at the chain’s No. 3 Road franchise allegedly refused to serve her, then asked her to leave, because staff couldn’t understand her English.

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24 Hours, Calgary Sun, Canoe.ca, Edmonton Sun, London Free Press, St Catharines Standard, Sun News Network, Toronto Sun

Deported migrant workers seek apology over ‘dehumanizing’ filmed raids

March 28, 2013by David P. Ball Leave a comment

What Diana Thompson and her eight-year-old daughter hoped could at least be a tearful goodbye turned to sobs of frustration as her husband was evicted from Canada late last night.

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The Tyee

Happy New Year: Stories of 2012

January 2, 2013by David P. Ball Leave a comment

Here’s a look back over some of my key stories of the last year.

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Briarpatch magazine, Canadian Dimension, Georgia Straight, Huffington Post Canada, Indian Country Today Media Network, National Post, rabble.ca, The Toronto Star, This Magazine, Vancouver Observer

Canada unique for lack of xenophobic sentiment in public discourse: Kenney

November 10, 2012by David P. Ball Leave a comment

The immigration minister said that his immigration crackdown — from marriage fraud to human smuggling and what he called the “abuse of Canada’s generosity” — is not driven by ideology or racism.

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The Tyee

A crisis in migrant health

November 8, 2012by David P. Ball Leave a comment

From refugees to temporary foreign workers, migrants are bearing the brunt of health-care cuts in Canada.

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Briarpatch magazine

Photo: Jason Kenney tells war veteran daughter: soldiers were “heroes,” but not Canadian citizens

July 2, 2012by David P. Ball Leave a comment

Citizenship Minister Jason Kenney told Jackie Scott, the daughter of a Canadian war veteran, that her father – and others serving the country – technically weren’t Canadian at the time they were fighting for their country. Photo by David P. Ball

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Vancouver Observer

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About David P. Ball

REPORTERS' DUTY IS TO INFORM, IMPACT, INSPIRE & DEFEND DEMOCRACY

My nearly 20 years of investigative journalism experience includes top national media awards, and bylines in Canada and the world's most-read outlets — including the Globe & Mail, Guardian, Le Monde, National Post, Toronto Star, VICE, La Presse, AFP, Figaro, Times of India, Daily Mail — in online, daily print, magazine, photo, video and radio storytelling.

Most recently covering the B.C. politics beat for the Star Vancouver (The Toronto Star's B.C. bureau), my journalism has been recognized with three of Canada's top media awards.

CAJ Award-Winner & Multiple Finalist

Webster Award Award-Winner & Finalist

CJF Co-winner

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Published in over 100 publications, reaching millions of readers worldwide:

• Globe & Mail
• Toronto Star
• The Guardian
• National Post
• New York Post
• Daily Mail UK
• VICE
• Ottawa Sun & QMI chain
• iPolitics
• Huffington Post
• Hamilton Spectator
• 24 Hours
• The Tyee
• Georgia Straight
• Xtra!
• Windspeaker
• Extract: Pipeline anthology chapter

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MY PHOTOJOURNALISM:
Published in the Globe & Mail, The Province, New York Post, CBC News, Toronto Star, National Post, Bild am Sonntag (DE), Arsenal Pulp Press, Georgia Straight, Tricity News


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