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Joint Statement on Human Rights
Moving Forward: A vision for strengthened international human rights implementation in Canada
Joint Submission on Medical Inadmissibility of Immigrants
November 16, 2017 - OCASI - Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants, together with Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic (CSALC) and South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario (SALCO) made a joint submission to the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, for their Study on Federal Government Policies and Guidelines Regarding Medical Inadmissibility of Immigrants.
Free legal training
A Free Workshop on recent changes to Housing, Employment, Immigration and Citizenship law
Organized by the Chinese & Southeast Asian Legal Clinic
Date: Friday, November 24, 2017
Time: 9:00 am to 4:30 pm
Location: Steelworkers Hall
25 Cecil Street, Toronto, Ontario
Speakers
Growing gap: immigrants, racialized residents in the 2016 Census
Toronto / October 31, 2017 / - OCASI welcomes the release of immigration and ethocultural diversity data by Statistics Canada on October 25, 2017. Thanks to the reinstatement of the mandatory long-form Census (after a ten year interruption) we once again have the much-needed demographic and economic information about the lives of immigrant and racialized residents. The data highlights the need for government action on several OCASI priorities such as: