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OTTAWA — Refugee lawyers who help asylum seekers who have crossed into Canada irregularly are calling on government to end its co-operation with the U.S. government and suspend the safe third country agreement. Maureen Silcoff, a spokeswoman for the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers,[1] says her organization and other civil society groups were dismayed to hear Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen...

AG James and Coalition Continue Fight Against Unlawful Rule That Puts Asylum-Seekers at Greater Risk of Contracting COVID-19 at Southern Border NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James, as part of a coalition of 22 attorneys general, today took legal action to stop the Trump Administration’s unlawful attempts to limit immigrants from accessing the nation’s asylum process. In an...

Expressing deep concern for the refugees who may be endangered, CARL said that the policy was unjustified, given that an earlier plan announced by the federal government could have protected not only public health in the country but also the refugees’ interests by providing them safe housing and quarantine. “We simply did not have to choose between tackling the pandemic...

The Maersk Developer drills an exploratory well into Statoil’s Martin prospect in the Gulf of Mexico, with work expected to finish in the third quarter of 2014. Two years ago, Statoil paid $157 million for the right to drill into a single 9-square-mile block at the site and the Norwegian company is now spending about $1.1 million a day to...