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What’s wrong with the Safe Third Country Agreement?

Christian Courier | July 28, 2023

The Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA), effective since 2004, mandates that refugees must claim asylum in the first safe country they reach—either the U.S. or Canada—making many asylum seekers ineligible if they enter Canada at land or water borders. The agreement has been criticized for inaccurately designating the U.S. as a safe country, given its record of human rights violations and inadequate protections for women facing gender-based violence.

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The Way Through the Climate Crisis

By Liam Maclure | July 26, 2023

Collectively, we have lost our way. Across the world, greenhouse gas emissions are rising to levels that threaten other species, biodiversity, and ourselves. We have failed to understand how polluting industries and constant economic growth cannot coexist with sustainable living if profit and materialism remain the focus. We have failed…

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Aliénor leading the September 23rd 2022 youth climate strike in Toronto, where several thousands of students, youth and their adult allies took the streets to demand climate justice.

Finding Your Inner Activist: Debunking Three Myths about Being an Activist

By Aliénor Rougeot | July 12, 2023

In the face of the climate crisis and growing inequities, all hands are needed on deck to place justice at the top of the agenda. Polls repeatedly show that concern for inequities and climate catastrophe is on the rise. Meanwhile, opportunities to make a life out of activism are more…

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Letter to PM calls for immediate end to migrant incarceration

CBC News | June 28, 2023

Since the launch of the #WelcometoCanada campaign in 2022, CPJ has partnered with Human Rights Watch to call for an end to immigration detention in Canada. Since then, eight provinces have cancelled their immigration detention contracts with Canada Border Services Agency. However, some provinces have been transferring detainees to other…

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Sowing the Seeds of Justice and Joy

By Karri Munn-Venn | June 16, 2023

In June, 2000, the city of Windsor, Ontario hosted the Organization of American States General Assembly. I had just started my first full-time public policy job and was excited to attend such a high-profile event. Rallies and protests were already familiar spaces to me and I considered them important opportunities…

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Does signing petitions actually make a difference?

By Citizens for Public Justice | May 19, 2023

From calling on a papal apology for residential school abuse to ending poverty in Canada, online petitions have been increasingly present in digital space. But do they actually bring about change? Our own Socio-economic Policy Analyst, Natalie Appleyard, was one of the panellists on “The Agenda,” aired on TVO Today…

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Camp for African refugees and displaced people on the outskirts of Hargeisa in Somaliland under UN auspices.

Becoming Agents of Change: Power, Privilege, and Choice

By Njamba Koffi | May 8, 2023

I was still living in the refugee camp in Swaziland when, on the night of October 8, 2014, I woke up to high pitched screams and hysterical, distressed cries of three women—two of whom I would soon learn were my teen peers. It was around 4.30 a.m. I seemed to…

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Becoming Agents of Change: Youth Leading the Charge

By Serisha Iyar | May 1, 2023

We often see changemakers as those with immense power that can shift societal norms. From politicians to civil society, to activists, we tend to view change through the eyes of social capital. However, more and more youth are being looked to for their leadership and expertise, as we seek to…

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Curiosity as an Expression of Trust

By Willard Metzger | April 28, 2023

In the final video of the series on poverty and congregational responses by the Flourishing Congregations Institute, I encourage us to embrace a life of curiosity rather than control when facing the unknown – a timely reminder for the Eastertide season. Discover how a curious mindset can help us better…

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The Power We Don’t See

By Ronald A. Kuipers | April 24, 2023

I don’t normally think of myself as “an agent of change.” The problems we face today are so daunting that I often feel powerless to help bring about the kind of change our world so desperately needs. I sense I am not alone in struggling with this sense of powerlessness….

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