Warda Shazadi Meighen – Canadian legacy of the life and death of 3-year-old Alan Kurdi
Alan Kurdi never knew peace. Just three years old when he died, he was born in war and died trying to flee it, like many thousands of others...
Jacqueline Swaisland – Precedent Setter Awards 2016
Jacqueline Swaisland receives Precedent Setter Award for cofounding the Refugee Sponsorship Support Program, that has grown to more than 1,200 lawyers worldwide and has helped more than 1,000 refugees in Toronto alone.
Jacqueline Swaisland – Immigration consultants violating rules of refugee sponsorship program
Professional immigration consultants, in partnership with some refugee sponsorship groups, are charging refugees thousands of dollars in arrangements that critics say are unethical and violate federal rules...
Jacqueline Swaisland – How Canadians are Stepping Up
December 22, 2015 | NPR Canada's newly elected government faces a challenge - how to fulfil a promise to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees in a matter of months. NPR interviews Jacqueline Swaisland on the matter...
Jacqueline Swaisland – Legal community poised to greet Syrian influx
December 7, 2015 | Law Times While the federal immigration minister has taken heat for vague details on 10,000 government-sponsored Syrian refugees, the legal community is also busy preparing for what impacts the influx may bring...
Warda Shazadi Meighen – Can a Picture Change the Rhetoric on Refugees?
September 10, 2015 | New America Weekly Aylan Kurdi, age three, had escaped from Syria and was en route to seek refuge in Canada with his family. He drowned off the Turkish coast. Last week, the widely circulated photo of the infant’s body washed ashore triggered an intense discussion...
Jacqueline Swaisland – Canada’s Federal Court urged to declare refugee health cuts illegal
December 18, 2013 | Toronto Star Ottawa has breached international laws and the Charter of Rights by reducing and eliminating refugees’ access to basic health care, a refugee advocate told the Federal Court on Tuesday...
Jacqueline Swaisland – Alleged Rwandan war criminal Jean Leonard Teganya pleads for mercy, asylum
January 24, 2012 | National Post
Jacqueline Swaisland – Future of young refugee in hands of Ontario appeal court
April 13, 2011 | Toronto Star In a peculiar case that highlights the competing rights of children, parents and refugees, a dozen lawyers argued in a Toronto court this week over whether a deported 13-year-old refugee should be allowed to return to Canada...