Lucene Charles, the St. Vincent native who has been battling deportation from Canada for some time now because of her failure to fill out the proper immigration papers years ago, has finally achieved victory. The decision in principle to allow her to stay has been made, a decision that will
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Accidental Deliberations: Move along, nothing to see here
And certainly no reason for worry about this afterthought as the Cons decide which immigrants they’d like to throw out of Canada on their respective ears (or prevent from arriving): And there are another 2,500 people who, for various reasons, have prompted the concern of the government. Mr. Kenney said
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: A Robocall Invitation to Toronto Mayor’s Rob “Ford Fest” Barbecue
The term “robocall” reminds the majority of Canadians of the robocalls election fraud perpetrated during the May 2011 federal election. The robocalls and related U.S.-style voter suppression methods robbed thousands of Canadians of their voter rights. Canadians have since registered more 1,394 robocalls complaints in 234 ridings across the country with Elections Canada, the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Kenney Among The Bishops
Denni Gruending offers this guest piece by ex-Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishop director Joe Gunn: In a move that has no precedent in recent memory, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) has invited a federal cabinet minister to address their Plenary Assembly this autumn. Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister
Continue readingImpolitical: Jason Kenney’s week
From a Toronto Star editorial on refugee health care cuts on Wednesday: Daniel Garcia Rodriguez has experienced some of the best, and worst, that Canada can offer. The best includes St. Michael’s Hospital eye surgeon Dr. David Wong, who saved this Columbian refugee claimant’s vision in an operation largely funded
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: An Update on Sayed Sharifi
After many setbacks, Sayed Shah Sarifi, the brave young Afghan interpreter who recently arrived in Toronto thanks to his own tenacity and the efforts of people of goodwill, has landed his first Canadian job. You can read this good-news story here. Recommend this Post
Continue readingImpolitical: Jason Kenney’s immigration department at work
Heartless, baby, just heartless: “Toronto grandmother, 70, deported to Sri Lanka.” This is a 70 year old grandmother who has trouble walking on her own, with no family left back in Sri Lanka, who obviously has a daughter (and grandchildren) here in Canada to care for her. The family made
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to end your week. – Tim Harper suggests that the Cons are running out of options to try to push the Gateway pipeline on a thoroughly-opposed public in British Columbia. But in keeping with the Cons’ general view of the world as nothing but a public relations problem
Continue readingImpolitical: Lawyer on the Kenney letter
Lawyer Lorne Waldman speaks to CBC about the open letter that he and 80 plus lawyers wrote to Jason Kenney that was published in the Globe today. It’s a very good interview and a key part is Waldman’s response on the documentary evidence that Kenney’s office has produced in order
Continue readingTrashy's World: Even lawyers…
…80 of them, in fact, are sure that CPC attack dawg, Jason Kenney, lied about his involvement in the “repatriation” of Conrad Black! Watch out J-boy! When 4 score of lawyers are pissed, you had better take cover under your boss’s desk! (6) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingImpolitical: Kenney gets a letter
In the Globe today: “An open letter to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney.” Dear Mr. Kenney We, the undersigned, all members of the Ontario Bar, agree with the statement of Guidy Mamann when he asserted that it was not credible that the decision taken in relation to the Conrad Black Temporary
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – George Monbiot discusses the effect of inegalitarian and austerian policies imposed by the UK Conservatives: (T)he neoliberal programme has closed down political choice. If the market, as the doctrine insists, is the only valid determinant of how societies evolve, and the market
Continue readingImpolitical: Kenney’s bogus stats on refugee health care
Jason Kenney has come out with some stats on refugee claimants from ‘safe’ countries and the cost of their using Canadian health care. They will likely come off as sounding high and will serve the political purpose of getting the usual base riled up, but they need to be considered
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Sayed Shah Sharifi Arrives In Canada
Thanks to the doggedness of The Toronto Star, for whom social justice and journalistic integrity are more than mere words, the long tale of Sayed Shah Sharifi, the Afghan interpreter, is finally over. In a world where victories are often few and far between for the ‘good guys,’ today is
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s Official White Supremacist Portrait: PHOTO
Our Ford, the (Lord) Mayor of Toronto is rabidly right-wing. No doubt about that. After all, he recently proposed exiling Toronto’s convicted criminals, most of whom tend to be persons of color. Fellow Conservative and immigrant-bashing minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Jason Kenney, endorsed the idea. Still, I would never
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Is A. Raoul Nembhard The New Patrick Brazeau?
Jason Kenney appoints him to the Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF). The day of the CRRF’s first meeting, he phones it in after dancing it up in Spain. Boogey down Raoul! Whatever it is you do with the CRRF apparently doesn’t require your physical presence.
Continue readingImpolitical: Kenney’s recent appointment to the CRRF
Missed his first meeting as a board member of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation on Friday ‘cuz he was clubbing in Ibiza: First meeting as a member of the CRRF Board today, was interesting, & awesome to meet my new colleagues although I called in from Spain — A. Raoul
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford: When the Bigot is a Moron
Damn. I've been trying to think of something nice to say about Rob Ford for soooo long. It's the kind of guy I am. Always looking for the good in people. Or the pony in the manure. And besides after calling him an incompetent buffoon, a crass and vulgar redneck,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Victory To Celebrate
I have expressed more than once in this blog my opinion that the Harper regime aims to make Canadians feel powerless and disenfranchised, thereby facilitating the government’s efforts to remake Canada in its own calloused corporatist image. Once in a while, however, a victory comes along to remind us that
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Making Political Hay
Well, you have to hand it to them. The Harper regime never forgoes an opportunity to exploit tragedy: In an interview airing on CBC’s Power & Politics on Friday, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said “clearly the recent rash of gun crime in Toronto is connected to criminal gun
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