Migrant Farm Workers

A Federal Court has set aside an immigration officer’s decision to refuse a work permit application after finding the officer made speculative conclusions about the applicant’s family ties in Canada …

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Millen Farms Limited has been directed to pay three temporary foreign workers’ outstanding wages to the Director of Labour Standards in trust. The decision by the Nova Scotia Labour Board …

By Stephanie Mayell, University of Toronto; Janet McLaughlin, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Jenna L Hennebry, Wilfrid Laurier University Migrant agricultural workers are employed in one of Canada’s most hazardous industries. …

By Stevens Azima, Université Laval Local food systems are often viewed as alternatives to the global food system to stress their “promise of difference.” Research supports several benefits associated with …

Proposed changes to Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program that will directly affect thousands of Niagara-on-the-Lake seasonal workers won’t come soon enough and don’t go far enough, says the head of …

By Richard Hutton | The Lake Report The fight to compensate a seasonal farmworker injured on the job in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., is likely to continue despite the man’s death earlier …

By Stephanie Mayell, University of Toronto; C. Susana Caxaj, Western University, and Janet McLaughlin, Wilfrid Laurier University The government of Canada recently amended the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations to …