Toronto / November18, 2021
OCASI made a written submission to the Standing Committee on Social Policy on Bill 27: Working for Workers Act, 2021.
The Bill proposes certain changes that are intended to address exploitation and abuse by recruiters. It is not certain if these proposals will be effective. Other proposals in the Bill have the potential to harm workers.
December 2021 / Toronto
We enter this last month of the calendar year with increasing alarm and some frustration as new variants of the COVID-19 are detected here at home and throughout the world. Frustration- or at least mine, comes from the knee jerk response of the Canadian and other high income countries quickly moving to shut their borders primarily to travellers from countries in the Global South, in this case countries in southern Africa including South Africa (not considered a global south country).
November 17, 2021 / Toronto
OCASI hosted a webinar on the “Queer Refugee Hearings Program Toolkit”, a resource from Capital Rainbow Refugee. The webinar was organized to assist service providers to better help people claiming refugee protection based on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, and/or Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC).
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