Ep.54 - This Is Not Canada: Living as a Migrant Farm Worker
COMMONS
English - June 07, 2016 01:25 - 27 minutes - 25 MB - ★★★★ - 69 ratingsPolitics News Society & Culture Documentary canada hockey sports history storytelling Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
“Are these… 18th century working conditions?” Gabriel Allahdua asks. Gabriel came from St. Lucia to work on a farm as part of the Temporary Foreign Worker program.
He describes the long hours, difficult working conditions and his disappointment over speaking to a Parliamentary committee that’s reviewing the TFW program.
Justicia for Migrant Workers put us in touch with Gabriel.
Are Canadian politicians bending gender norms? Jerald Sabin, a research associate at the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation, talks about a study on masculinity in the last election, co-authored by Kyle Kirkup.
And a new segment where Supriya gets mad at Twitter.
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