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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 25, 2023 11:49 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size The federal government says it is investigating allegations that a farm in southwestern Ontario sent six Jamaican seasonal workers home earlier than planned after they protested their living and working conditions. …
Read More »‘I just need a chance to live again’: Jamaican migrant worker with cancer begs to stay in N.S.
A seasonal farm worker from Jamaica is fighting to stay in Nova Scotia for cancer treatment, saying it would be a death sentence for her to go home. Kerian Burnett, 42, was hired by a Colchester County farm through the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) in April. She picked strawberries …
Read More »St. Catharines to consult with migrant workers on transportation planning, after roadside death
When Blanca Islas Perez heard about the death of Fermin Soto Sanchez in St. Catharines, Ont., earlier this month, it brought her straight back to the 1990s. That’s when her husband died and she became a migrant worker, like him, in order to take care of her family. She has been travelling to Canada to …
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