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Walking the Talk: Embedding Anti-Racism in Immigration Policies and Practices
Debbie Douglas Keynote Address at the Canadian Council for Refugees Consultation, November 2022
Good morning and thank you CCR for allowing me this space to address you this morning. It’s very difficult to say no to Janet as many of you know.
Take a look around you.
Joint Solidarity Statement / Déclaration conjointe de solidarité
Joint Statement in solidarity with Indigenous families mourning the murder of four Indigenous women
OCASI Pre-Budget Submission 2023 Federal Budget
OCASI made the following four recommendations for the 2023 Federal Budget, in our pre-budget submission to the Standing Committee on Finance.
1. Establish a minimum core funding threshold that invests in quality services and decent work for the non-profit immigrant and refugee serving sector and the larger non-profit sector.
Disruptions
November 2022 / Toronto
There is disruption in the air. Disruption to the status quo, to the usual. This may turn out to be both good and bad.
My thought this past first weekend of the month as we hit mid-twenties temperatures- “even mother nature is in a disruptive mood.” This thought brought about by the freakishly warm weather mother nature has served up here in Ontario in November, signaling the direction our planet is headed, as we continue to tinker around the edges of climate change. Worrying even while we enjoy the warmish winds.