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2025 OCASI Compensation & Benefits Survey
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Shaping Equity in Ontario’s Immigrant and Refugee Services Sector
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This important initiative seeks to gather up-to-date insights on compensation trends across Ontario’s not-for-profit immigrant and refugee-serving sector, specifically for organizations dedicated to serving immigrants and refugees.
Solidarity with Refugees / Solidarité avec les réfugiés
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Solidarity with Refugees: End the Safe Third Country Agreement
Toronto / June 20, 2024
Open Letter / Lettre ouverte
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Open Letter: Canada puts refugee claimants at risk with Bill C-2
Toronto / June 13, 2025
Media Release - Open Letter: Canada’s Bill C-2 puts Refugee Claimants at Risk
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
A Time for Action
It seems like we can’t catch a breath, before another unexpected announcement of a legislative, by-law or policy change is announced by one or another level of government. All negative. All curbing individual and group rights. All must and will be challenged- in calls to elected politicians, in the streets and in the courts.
Bill C-2 an omnibus Bill introduced by the federal Minister of Public Safety contains several clauses that effectively shut the Canadian borders to refugee claimants (asylum seekers) in need of a safe refuge and Canada’s protection.