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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
January 24, 2012 | National Post
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...
