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Canadian Housing And Immigration Policy

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Wed, 04/01/2023 - 23:35
Canadian Housing And Immigration Policy

So, Canada has done two interesting things in the last couple years to deal with the effects of Covid. The first is let in a lot more immigrants:

Canada added more than 431,000 new permanent residents last year, the largest annual increase in its history, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seeks to ease the country’s labor shortages.

The new admissions met the 2022 target set by Trudeau’s government and exceeded the prior year’s record of about 401,000 newcomers, according to a release from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada on Tuesday.

Exclusive: Graham claims credit for strike pay uplift that was in place months before she became Unite GS

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Wed, 04/01/2023 - 23:34
No response from union to questions about claim Unite general secretary Sharon Graham has published a tweet in which she claimed credit for an increase in strike pay that predated her taking up the role by several months. Ms Graham claimed that she ‘upped the daily strike rates to £70 when I became general secretary: […]

Data Sharing and Migrant Women Reporting Abuse

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Wed, 04/01/2023 - 23:23
On 9 December 2022, The Wales Cross Party Group on Digital Rights and Democracy, of which Open Rights Group is the secretariat, held its second session, this time held on data sharing and migrant women reporting domestic abuse. The session, chaired by Sarah Murphy, Member of the Senedd for Bridgend and Porthcawl, heard representations from […]

C. L. R. James’ Campaign Against Cricket’s Racial Hierarchy

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Wed, 04/01/2023 - 22:44

In 1961, hundreds of thousands of Australians lined the streets of Melbourne to give a tearful farewell to the motorcade passing them by. The Australian test cricket team had just won the home series two to one, but the crowd wasn’t cheering for them. The motorcade contained the West Indies cricket team under its first […]

É urgente tirar a família do foco dos ministérios das Mulheres e dos Direitos Humanos

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Wed, 04/01/2023 - 20:03

A pauta dos direitos humanos não pode ser a manutenção do núcleo familiar, muitas vezes espaço de violência doméstica e sexual contra mulheres, crianças e adolescentes.

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Perhaps You Were Unclear on the Meaning of the Term

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Wed, 04/01/2023 - 18:24

A winter storm, labor, shortages, and outdated computer systems caused Southwest Airlines to cancel thousands of flights over the winter holidays. Travelers reported that other airlines, instead of helping out, raised their prices to take advantage of the situation.

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