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Building Community Power Against Deportations

On Sunday, August 2, the Comité d’action de Parc-Extension (CAPE) and the Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC-CTI) organized a workshop on the rights of migrants facing deportation. The workshop formed part of the IWC-CTI’s ongoing campaign to resist deportations and defend migrant communities. The event was particularly urgent because Parc-Extension has become an epicenter of the deportation crisis. More than 200 people are deported from Quebec every week, with people from... Read more →

International Students Win the Right to Resume Their Studies—But the Crisis Is Not Over

Nearly 900 international students were thrown into uncertainty after the Quebec government refused to renew the operating permits of Collège supérieur de Montréal and Collège supérieur de Sherbrooke. Many students had left their families, paid tens of thousands of dollars in tuition, and worked in low-wage jobs to support themselves. Some were only weeks away from graduating when their studies were abruptly suspended, threatening their academic progress, employment, and immigration... Read more →

A Call for Housing Justice

The Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC-CTI) joined community organizations in calling for urgent government action following the release of the Quebec coroner's report into the death of Manjeet Singh, an unhoused migrant who died in Parc-Extension earlier this year. Speaking after the report's release, Gaurav Sharma, an organizer with the Immigrant Workers Centre, said Singh's death was not an isolated tragedy but the result of systemic failures that continue to leave... Read more →

Montreal Protest Against Deportations

Around fifty people gathered on Friday outside the office of federal MP Marjorie Michel in Montreal, responding to a call from the Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC-CTI) to demand an immediate halt to the deportation of the Singh-Rani family and a temporary suspension of deportations of rejected refugee claimants until their humanitarian applications have been fully assessed. The demonstration took place amid an unprecedented increase in deportations across Canada. According to... Read more →