February-March 2009

Features

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  CANADA’S LIVE-IN CAREGIVER PROGRAM

  By Carole Pearson

  “If you live in the Philippines and you hear the word ‘Canada,’ you think, It’s a very nice place: good people, good salary,’” says Lilibeth Agoncillo. Unfortunately, her first job as a live-in caregiver only lasted three weeks.

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  CANADIAN IMMIGRATION POLICY & THE LCP

  By Salimah Valiani

  How well do live-in caregivers fare in achieving permanent residency in Canada?

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  COVER STORY: LEADERS FOR TOMORROW

  By Kristin Schwartz

  “To me it was like oxygen,” says elementary school teacher Arifa Ghaffar of her participation in the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario’s Leaders for Tomorrow program. “The program changed me totally as a teacher and a person. I felt validated, I felt part of the bigger picture.”

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  VIOLA DESMOND ENERGIZER

  Canadian Labour Congress

  An exercise that helps raise energy levels at meetings and gets people thinking about systemic ways in which racism shows itself.

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  ANNA WILLATS: A PROFILE

  By Deidre Walton

  “At the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre in the 80s I learned everything I know about organizing,” says part-time professor and militant pride activist Anna Willats, an active supporter of the Ontario Public Service Employees’ Union campaign to win equal rights for part-time college
  workers.

Departments

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  NOTES

  Repair EI! * Petrocan Workers Win * A Million Reasons Booklet

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  WEBWORK: THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF WIKIS

  By Derek Blackadder

  For the webbish amongst us, wikis embody the Web 2.0 ideal.

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  OUR TIMES TALLY

  By Sean Cain

  Percentage of the world’s poor who are women: 70

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  POETRY

  By Fiona Tinwei Lam