Toronto / February 2024
How far have we come in these past four years when global consciousness was reawakened to the persistent and enduring legacy and practice of anti-Black racism, when for more than nine minutes we watched on television the snuffing out of breath from a Black man by the knee of a uniformed white policeman.
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Toronto / January 2024
OCASI's 2024 pre-budget submission for Ontario highlights growing and deepening disadvantages in employment, housing and settlement faced by im/migrants and refugees, and calls for more investment in services and supports.
Toronto / January 2024
2024 arrived amid the echoes of war for land and the richness it holds, in the various diasporas here in Ontario and across the country. From Palestine (Gaza) to Sudan; and Congo to Ukraine many of our communities here in our cities and towns are engaged in some discussion, debate, protest, anguish and fear for their loved ones caught in the violent power play of capital and its unrelenting greed.
Toronto / December 19, 2023
OCASI welcomes the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship (IRCC), Minister Marc Miller’s statement last week to The Globe and Mail that he plans in the spring to present to cabinet a proposal for a “broad and comprehensive program” for immigration status regularization.