Your rights with consultants and lawyers for immigrants and refugees

Your Rights with Lawyers and Immigration Consultants:

· You have the right to competent counsel who manages your case properly and knows how to handle that type of case

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Entitlements to Social Services for Non Status Immigrants

Please see attached flyer to find out what services people are entitled to based on their immigration status including medical, education, welfare and health benefits.

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Tips on Humanitarian Application

H&C Quick Tips

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Report From Law Union Delegation to El Salvador

Report From Law Union Delegation to El Salvador

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Know Your Rights with Immigration Officials

If you or someone you know is questioned or detained by an Immigration / CBSA Officer or Police Officer, contact No One Is Illegal at nooneisillegal@riseup.net.

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TDSB Finally Delivers on its Promise of a Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy

Toronto Wednesday May, 16 - in a unanimous
vote, Toronto District School Board trustees
stood up to in front of a board room packed
with community supporters brandishing neon

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Save the Court Challenges Program!

The federal government announced on Sept. 25, 2006 that it was abolishing the Court Challenges Program, a small program that provided modest contributions to the cost of important test cases dealing with language and equality rights. Without this Program, Canada's constitutional rights are real only for the wealthy. A website is now online to coordinate national efforts to save it: http://www.savecourtchallenges.ca

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Joint Intervenors' Submission to the Arar Inquiry

The Joint Intervenors' Submission to the Commission of Inquiry intothe Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar was submitted on September 10, 2005.

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Arar report exposes RCMP, government officials complicit in torture

The coalition of groups with intervener status at the Arar Inquiry, including the Law Union, released the following statement in response to the commission's final report.

September 18, 2006

Ottawa - Justice Dennis O'Connor has confirmed the worst fears of Organizations with Intervenor Status at the Arar Inquiry: that Canadian officials were complicit in the torture of Maher Arar and other Canadian citizens.

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