Media Releases

 June 27, 2013

For Immediate Release

08 May 2013/Toronto – OCASI – Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants is deeply concerned that the Statistics Canada Voluntary Household Survey released today does not capture the full reality of Canada's populations, such as racialized residents, and foreign-born individuals.

The Voluntary Household Survey notes that foreign-born residents were one-fifth, or 20.6% of the Canadian population in 2011. It notes that recent immigrants (2006-2011) represented 3.5% of the total population and 17.2% of the foreign-born population.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  

Refugee Rights Day 2013 - Toronto

 July 16, 2012/Toronto – OCASI - Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants is launching ‘Making Ontario Home', a new report based on extensive research carried out over a period of two years, on newcomers' experience with use of services in Ontario.

March 8, 2012/Toronto - Immigrant and refugee women have little to look forward to on International Women`s Day this year according to the report “State of Immigrant and Refugee Women`s Status in Canada – 2012”.

Media Advisory

July 14, 2011

For Immediate Release

Social Assistance Review Should Address Concerns of Racialized and Immigrant Communities

Toronto/April 25, 2011 - Refugee and immigrants rights groups, legal clinics, and women's organizations are calling on all federal parties to reject a proposed change to Canada's immigration law that will make women more vulnerable to violence and abuse.

Colour of Poverty Campaign