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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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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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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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Dope Sheet Column - May 18, 2005

DOPE SHEET COLUMN May 18, 2005 CSIS-TURNING A BLIND EYE TO TORTURE In December 2002 Mohamed Harkat was arrested on a Security Certificate issued under Section 77 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. Since that time Mr. Harkat has been detained at the Ottawa Detention Centre.

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Dope Sheet Column - January 25, 2006

DOPE SHEET COLUMN FEDERAL ELECTION IMPLICATIONS This Dope Sheet is being prepared on January 25, 2006, two days after the Federal election. Prime Minister Harper. Now there is scary thought.

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