Warda Shazadi Meighen – Provincial legal aid cuts are senseless economic and social policy
The Government of Ontario has cut one-third of legal aid funding. Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) funds legal representation for those individuals whose annual income is less than $17,000 – in other words, the most impoverished in our society...
Warda Shazadi Meighen – The Criminalization of Migration
With over 240 million migrants in the world, including over 65 million forced migrants and refugees, states have turned to draconian measures to stem the flow of irregular migration, including the criminalization of migration itself...
Jacqueline Swaisland – Meet Refugee Lawyer Jacqueline Swaisland
It’s a tumultuous time for refugee lawyers. For Jacqueline Swaisland, the number of people willing to work hard and start over in this country is inspiring. It’s her job to help give those people a chance to start over...
Erin Simpson – Q&A with a refugee lawyer, on “irregular” border crossings in the age of Trump
Erin Simpson, a Toronto-based attorney who sits on the executive committee of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers, is one of the people working to find out who’s fleeing the U.S., and why...
Warda Shazadi Meighen – M-103: Canadian Muslims need this showing of solidarity
Much has been made this week of something that should have been a simple gesture to a community in mourning. Many Muslims in Canada have been hurting...
Erin Simpson – How Canada should react to Trump and refugee crisis
Refugees entering Canada through the US are risking dangerous irregular crossings to avoid detection of Canadian border officials because the Safe Third Country Agreement requires Canadian immigration officials to deny entry...
Jacqueline Swaisland – How Canadian lawyers can respond to Trump’s executive orders
Here are six ways that you can put your skills into action as a member of the Canadian bar to respond to Donald Trump's anti-immigration executive orders.