migrant workers
I came to work in Ontario thirteen years ago. I don’t know when my family can join me.
I spend 12 hours a day in a greenhouse, but the hardest part of my job is being apart from family
Pick our fruit, get COVID-19
Sadiya Ansari: Canada’s immigration system doesn’t provide citizenship paths to so-called ‘unskilled’ labour, fails to recognize their worth and, as a result, fails to protect them
Migrant farm workers and the cruel trade-off at your local produce aisle
Opinion: Is it a fair exchange when the fresh fruits and vegetables that we feed to our kids come at such a cost to other families and their kids?
California’s peach—and peach picker—shortage
The cling peach harvest in Northern California is shaping up to be one of the smallest in recent years. An unusually hot July slowed fruit growth, resulting in more small and unusable peaches, but the problem is being compounded by a lack of workers to pick the remaining fruit from the trees.
U.S. workers: Need job, can’t travel to Alberta
Washington wants Ottawa to make it easier for U.S. workers to fill vacancies there