Research Coordinator @uOttawaTechLaw Researcher @MediaTechDem @McGillu Contributing author @theintercept, @typeinvestigate, @inthesetimesmag, @TheBreachMedia
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Must-read piece by @HaitiJustice, @HaitiBai's #MarioJoseph & Irwin Stotzky on why "a restitution claim by #Haiti...could generate a deluge of justice for all those harmed by slavery" miamiherald.com/opinion/op-e…
Please share! Our take on what Haiti can contribute to the fight for reparations for slavery, and why that contribution requires the US & France to allow democracy in Haiti. With #MarioJoseph of @HaitiBai & Irwin Stotzky of @UMiamiLawLib miamiherald.com/opinion/op-e…
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Please share! Our take on what Haiti can contribute to the fight for reparations for slavery, and why that contribution requires the US & France to allow democracy in Haiti. With #MarioJoseph of @HaitiBai & Irwin Stotzky of @UMiamiLawLib miamiherald.com/opinion/op-e…
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On Wednesday, May 18 at 3 pm ET ➡️ @IsabelMacdo will be hosting a roundtable on collaboration, universities and public interest journalism with @thecribby, @Hermida, @peterwklein, @PattiSonntag and @writevinita. #CCACC22
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Read @IsabelMacdo’s story “Why Is Canada Deporting Front Line Workers in the Middle of a Pandemic?” here: thewalrus.ca/pandemic-deport… #Immigration #Deportation
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#Canada's #EmergenciesAct should only be used as a very last resort, in crises like major earthquakes, warns former minister who wrote the law
Loi sur les mesures d’urgence | Ottawa doit être très prudent, selon le père de la loi lapresse.ca/actualites/polit… via @lp_lapresse
Thank you @NoLore @JesseBrown @CANADALAND for this show. Truly the best analysis I've heard of Anglo-Canadian media's disastrous failure to provide anything like the debate we urgently need about the implications of responding to #OttawaOccupation with updated #WarMeasuresAct
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1,544 Haitians—nearly 95 per cent of the total number deported since the end of the moratorium in 2014—have been expelled from #Canada under #Trudeau’s leadership.
My new article for @TheBreachMedia shows Canada misrepresented conditions in Haiti to justify deportations amid cholera, political instability and post-quake housing crisis: breachmedia.ca/revealed-cana…
My new article for @TheBreachMedia shows Canada misrepresented conditions in Haiti to justify deportations amid cholera, political instability and post-quake housing crisis: breachmedia.ca/revealed-cana…
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“Deportations during a pandemic are cruel and inhumane, but they are never justifiable, and they should never be taking place,” said Darwish. “We believe the only response to this should be to offer status to everybody so that nobody is living in fear of being deported.”
#Canada deported people to 132 countries during pandemic,reveals my new article for @TheBreachMedia.Destinations include #COVID disaster zones like #Brazil and #India,where yet another asylum seeker is set to be deported Tuesday breachmedia.ca/canada-deport…
#Canada deported people to 132 countries during pandemic,reveals my new article for @TheBreachMedia.Destinations include #COVID disaster zones like #Brazil and #India,where yet another asylum seeker is set to be deported Tuesday breachmedia.ca/canada-deport…
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In the wake of our investigation into a secretive committee the Trudeau government struck up with the oil lobby, @ElizabethMay raised it in the House of Commons today.
Read our report here: breachmedia.ca/oil-lobby-tru… #cdnmedia #cdnpoli
Oil lobby, Trudeau government formed secretive committee during pandemic breachmedia.ca/oil-lobby-tru… via @thebreachmedia @Martin_Lukacs
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While Trump officials repeatedly called a 96% decrease in the number of people in displacement camps in #Haiti "progress",@theintercept+@typeinvestigate found that displaced Haitians who died in camps were also officially counted,as part of this decrease, as progress. #TPS
After this week's court ruling upholding Trump's decision to end Haitians' protected immigration status, it's worth recalling the racist calculations behind that decision, which I documented in an investigation for @theintercept + @typeinvestigate #TPS interc.pt/2W37Tar
After this week's court ruling upholding Trump's decision to end Haitians' protected immigration status, it's worth recalling the racist calculations behind that decision, which I documented in an investigation for @theintercept + @typeinvestigate #TPS interc.pt/2W37Tar
Memo to the judges who just reversed the injunction blocking #Trump's #TPS terminations for #Haiti #ElSalvador #Nicaragua #Sudan, citing insufficient proof that these policy decisions were motivated by racism: Did you actually read the quotes cited in your own ruling??
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In our new article for @typeinvestigate + @theintercept,@MelissaLaLinea and I report on how US deportations are exporting Covid-19 to countries like #Haiti and #Guatemala interc.pt/2Bd4xvG
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With 19 other members cosponsoring, @RepWilson introduced legislation today that calls for stopping all deportations to Haiti for the duration of the pandemic. wilson.house.gov/media-cente…
IMPORTANT UPDATE: ICE Changes Course, Declines To Deport COVID-Positive Haitians: huffingtonpost.ca/entry/ice-…