Toronto workers are rallying in order to stop the departure to Guatemala of eighteen mushroom pickers, mostly female, who were fired from a farm in Blenheim a week before Christmas.

The pickers were to board a flight to Guatemala City at Pearson airport.

An HIV-infected stripper who infected her husband faces a possible deportation from Canada after she was convicted of criminal negligence and aggravated assault for knowingly passing the AIDS causing virus.

Asylum seekers who are not granted permission to live in the UK but are unable to return to their country of origin should be allowed to work and access health care, said a report by former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith’s think-tank.

The imminent deportation of a Vancouver-based Filipina caregiver along with her one year old Canadian-born baby underscores the ‘unjust’ and ‘exploitative’ policies of the Live-in Caregiver Program of Canada, says a national advocacy group fighting to have the federal program scrapped.

The nation’s courts continue to grapple with abuses committed by the administration of President Bush in the name of fighting terror. On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that turns on the claim of Mr. Bush that he can order people living in the United States to be detained by the military indefinitely without charges. The case involves Ali al-Marri, a citizen of Qatar who was living legally in the US. He was declared an enemy combatant in the mid of the year 2003 and since then, has been held in a Navy.

I arrived in Vancouver only recently and was immediately impressed by the Asian aspect of the city. Bilingual signs are in English and in Chinese in the airport. As you stroll down the streets, you are struck by the number of well-dressed, confident young people of Chinese origin.

Now, nursing jobs are simply not there for thousands of Filipinos hopeful of going to the United States.

Dean Josefina Tuazon of the University of the Philippines Manila-College of Nursing said that the US still needs nurses but it is not giving out visas for nurses now. It needs to legislate to provide additional work-related permanent visas for nurses, she said.

In 2002, Kushinga left Zimbabwe leaving behind her two young children and a husband. She worked as a speech therapist in Zimbabwe and was grated six month leave to enter the UK as a visitor. She was determined to pack in as many shifts as she could during the sex months and send money home. As a young couple, their dream was to build a dream house in Warren Park.

Teenager Buddhaholy Sui is still fighting against his deportation. The fate of this 13-year old boy who could be forced to leave Australia still remains up in the air.

Buddhist carer Caroline Ho said that letters in support of the 13-year old continues to flood in. Among so many supporters, the strongest support so far had come from Premier David Bartlett and Lisa Singh, who is Workplace Relations Minister.

Teenager Buddhaholy Sui is still fighting against his deportation. The fate of this 13-year old boy who could be forced to leave Australia still remains up in the air.

Buddhist carer Caroline Ho said that letters in support of the 13-year old continues to flood in. Among so many supporters, the strongest support so far had come from Premier David Bartlett and Lisa Singh, who is Workplace Relations Minister.