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January/February 2024 / Society

Invisible Lives: Meet Canada’s Undocumented Kids

February 2, 2024February 2, 2024 - by Cindy Blažević

Without legal status, these young people must live in the shadows

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Current Affairs / March/April 2024

Exploitation and Abusive Bosses Plague Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program

January 24, 2024August 13, 2024 - by Marcello Di Cintio

Government efforts to help vulnerable workers may be retraumatizing them

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Memoir

Community Storytelling Project: Three Stories from Chinese Canadians

June 28, 2023July 1, 2023 - by Various Contributors

Personal histories that touch down in rural Alberta, Jamaica, Hong Kong, and Toronto

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Memoir

100 Years after the Exclusion Act, Chinese Canadians like Me Still Question Their Belonging

June 28, 2023May 21, 2024 - by Adrian Ma

Searching for the sense of identity I had lost during the pandemic, I needed my family to see where our Canadian story began

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June 2022 / Justice

The Humboldt Crash: How Much Punishment Is Enough for Jaskirat Singh Sidhu?

June 2, 2022January 13, 2023 - by Sharon J. Riley

The truck driver readily accepted his jail sentence after killing sixteen people but is now fighting his deportation. What should justice look like after an accident?

The silhouettes of Afghan men who say they fled to Turkey through Iran standing in the countryside in Tatvan, Turkey.

Current Affairs

Escape from Kabul: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees

April 8, 2022April 8, 2022 - by Matthieu Aikins

As borders tighten and people find new ways to cross them, the shortest distance between two points is rarely a straight line

Podcasts

Why Are People Getting Deported During a Pandemic? Episode 11 of The Deep Dive

March 31, 2022May 10, 2022 - by The Walrus Staff

The Canadian federal government has deported thousands of people during the pandemic. Isabel Macdonald examines why these deportations are happening

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Current Affairs

Why Is Canada Deporting Front Line Workers in the Middle of a Pandemic?

March 25, 2022May 2, 2022 - by Isabel Macdonald

More than 18,000 people have been forced to leave, including those who kept our society running during the worst of COVID-19

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Current Affairs

Ask a Refugee Expert: How Will War in Ukraine Impact Immigration?

March 14, 2022June 9, 2022 - by Christina Clark-Kazak

Russia’s invasion is likely to spark the largest refugee movement in Europe since the end of the Second World War

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Podcasts

The Tangled Politics Keeping a Uyghur Man in Limbo: Episode 8 of The Deep Dive

March 10, 2022May 10, 2022 - by The Walrus Staff

This week Annie Hylton speaks about her longform feature for the March/April issue of The Walrus. She takes a look at the long, and complex case of Ayoob Mohammed

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Community Storytelling Project: Three Stories from Chinese Canadians

100 Years after the Exclusion Act, Chinese Canadians like Me Still Question Their Belonging

The Humboldt Crash: How Much Punishment Is Enough for Jaskirat Singh Sidhu?

Escape from Kabul: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees

Why Are People Getting Deported During a Pandemic? Episode 11 of The Deep Dive

Why Is Canada Deporting Front Line Workers in the Middle of a Pandemic?

Ask a Refugee Expert: How Will War in Ukraine Impact Immigration?

The Tangled Politics Keeping a Uyghur Man in Limbo: Episode 8 of The Deep Dive

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