Mexican woman dies in Canada Border Services custody
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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Tag Archives: Immigration
INVESTIGATION: Deaths in Border Services custody
At 24 Hours Vancouver, I broke the story about the hanging death of Mexican undocumented worker Lucia Vega Jimenez in CBSA custody.
Demolition halted for Japantown building
A Chinese-Canadian association scrambling to save its 122-year-old Japantown building from demolition has received a reprieve.
Trust of Care: Migrant women rally around undocumented moms-to-be
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.
Woman asks McDonald’s for apology
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.
Deported migrant workers seek apology over ‘dehumanizing’ filmed raids
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.
Happy New Year: Stories of 2012
Here’s a look back over some of my key stories of the last year.
Canada unique for lack of xenophobic sentiment in public discourse: Kenney
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.
A crisis in migrant health
From refugees to temporary foreign workers, migrants are bearing the brunt of health-care cuts in Canada.
Photo: Jason Kenney tells war veteran daughter: soldiers were “heroes,” but not Canadian citizens
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
