#cdnimm — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cdnimm, aggregated by home.social.
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Void in Québec b/c Québec has too much control over whom is given PR, etc. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/diab-foreign-doctors-permanent-residency-9.7006937 #polcan #cdnpoli #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #santeQC #QChealth #cdnimm #healthcanada
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Void in Québec b/c Québec has too much control over whom is given PR, etc. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/diab-foreign-doctors-permanent-residency-9.7006937 #polcan #cdnpoli #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #santeQC #QChealth #cdnimm #healthcanada
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Void in Québec b/c Québec has too much control over whom is given PR, etc. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/diab-foreign-doctors-permanent-residency-9.7006937 #polcan #cdnpoli #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #santeQC #QChealth #cdnimm #healthcanada
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Void in Québec b/c Québec has too much control over whom is given PR, etc. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/diab-foreign-doctors-permanent-residency-9.7006937 #polcan #cdnpoli #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #santeQC #QChealth #cdnimm #healthcanada
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Void in Québec b/c Québec has too much control over whom is given PR, etc. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/diab-foreign-doctors-permanent-residency-9.7006937 #polcan #cdnpoli #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #santeQC #QChealth #cdnimm #healthcanada
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"Today was a historic moment as the House of Commons voted unanimously to support a plan that would resettle to Canada 10,000 Uyghur Muslims who have been displaced by horrible conditions in China.
"Thank you Sameer Zuberi for all your leadership in moving this motion forward."
— Omar Alghabra, Minister of Transport and M.P. for Mississauga Centre
| #OmarAlghabra #SameerZuberi #cdnpoli #HouseOfCommons #HoC #UyghurMuslims #cdnimm #Canada #China
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"Today was a historic moment as the House of Commons voted unanimously to support a plan that would resettle to Canada 10,000 Uyghur Muslims who have been displaced by horrible conditions in China.
"Thank you Sameer Zuberi for all your leadership in moving this motion forward."
— Omar Alghabra, Minister of Transport and M.P. for Mississauga Centre
| #OmarAlghabra #SameerZuberi #cdnpoli #HouseOfCommons #HoC #UyghurMuslims #cdnimm #Canada #China
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"Today was a historic moment as the House of Commons voted unanimously to support a plan that would resettle to Canada 10,000 Uyghur Muslims who have been displaced by horrible conditions in China.
"Thank you Sameer Zuberi for all your leadership in moving this motion forward."
— Omar Alghabra, Minister of Transport and M.P. for Mississauga Centre
| #OmarAlghabra #SameerZuberi #cdnpoli #HouseOfCommons #HoC #UyghurMuslims #cdnimm #Canada #China
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"Today was a historic moment as the House of Commons voted unanimously to support a plan that would resettle to Canada 10,000 Uyghur Muslims who have been displaced by horrible conditions in China.
"Thank you Sameer Zuberi for all your leadership in moving this motion forward."
— Omar Alghabra, Minister of Transport and M.P. for Mississauga Centre
| #OmarAlghabra #SameerZuberi #cdnpoli #HouseOfCommons #HoC #UyghurMuslims #cdnimm #Canada #China
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Oh boy, @NFB... this looks great!
(More background for those curious: http://astronaught.media/boatpeoplepresentation)
#CdnImm #immigration #refugees #CdnHist @histodons
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Working with images around arrival, inclusion, and exclusion in the history of Canadian immigration again today.... one of my favourites is the collection of my home institution, the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. This is a picture of the Meijer family at Pier 21, waiting to join the train inland, in July of 1957.
If you're curious, the family took many beautiful images during their journey. See them in the museum's collection here: https://5104.sydneyplus.com/final/portal.aspx?lang=en-US&g_AABF=meijer&d=d
(Image: CMI DI.2013.1558.69)
@histodons #museums #histodons #CdnImm #CdnHist #Immigration
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CW: Canadian immigration history, health, and exclusion
One of the projects I have bubbling along is gathering up some key images regarding inclusion and exclusion of immigrants to Canada based on health. Health, of course, was a long-running factor in determining desirability in what is currently Canada. I often recall a letter of Jean Talon (intendant of New France) from 1667, which more or less sits comfortably alongside the "points system" of some 300 years later. (https://pier21.ca/research/immigration-history/immigration-regulations-order-in-council-pc-1967-1616-1967)
In it he pretty clearly frames out what remains one on the continuous threads of Canadian immigration preference: settlers should be between 16 and 40, and in good mental and physical health.
@histodons #histodons #HistMed #CdnHist #CdnImm #Immigration
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CW: Pseudo-scientific racism - medical exclusion - Canadian immigration history
So, I'm doing a very quick little round-up of health-related exclusion (and inclusion) in Canadian immigration history, and it gave me an opportunity to revisit one of my favourite examples of pseudo-scientific cover for racist exclusion.
This was the "hookworm" exclusion effort in Canadian immigration. Hookworm is an intestinal parasite that typically enters a host who is walking barefoot in areas with compromised sanitation (fecal contamination), and it was believed to be very common in immigrants seeking entry into Canada from India and elsewhere in Asia.
#CdnImm #CdnHist @histodons #immigration #racism
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@canadaehx For an immigration history angle - deportation from Canada during the Great Depression:
https://pier21.ca/research/immigration-history/deportation-from-canada-during-great-depression
This little summary just scratches the surface, of course. See Barbara Roberts for more! :)
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CW: Ugandan Asian Refugee Resettlement - Online Event
The #museum where I work (Cdn Museum of Immigration) is supporting the Carleton University-led conference Beyond Resettlement: Exploring the History of the Ugandan Asian Community in Exile (https://carleton.ca/uganda-collection/beyond-resettlement/) by hosting an online event tomorrow: a virtual screening of two documentaries on the subject of the expulsion of Ugandan Asians, their subsequent resettlement in Canada, and the unique, lasting ties to East Africa amongst the #refugees.
Tuesday, November 15th at 8:00 pm AST, here:
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CW: Kristallnacht / Holocaust / #CdnImm
9-10 November 1938 was Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass.
At least three hundred Jews died either immediately or in the "protective custody" that followed their arrest and detention as part of the pogrom.
In #CdnImm history, our federal government and its agents were busy keeping out as many refugees, and in particular, Jewish refugees, as possible during the 1930s.
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Did an interview with a TV journalist today on the wartime role of Pier 21 during the Second World War - normally, a #CdnImm major port of entry, but converted in wartime to be the main embarkation point for Canadian military personnel headed to the European theatre. About 400k deployed / returned through the site.
Image: HMT Queen Elizabeth brings military personnel and dependents to Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1946. [CMI clxn DI2017.852.1]
More info in blog here:
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Well, time for an #introduction! I am a historian of #CdnImm, working at the Canadian Museum of Immigration (one of Canada's national museums, located in Halifax, Nova Scotia).
Working for the museum means I do a variety of #PublicHistory projects. My research supports exhibits, I do public talks and presentations, sometimes I do specialized tours, I do media interviews, and of course I do more and less structured support for academics at various levels, from guest lecturing to "toss me that archival thing." You can see some of my blogs for the museum regarding various aspects of #CdnImm (Black exclusion, Depression-era Deportation, family status and migration, and much more) here: https://pier21.ca/taxonomy/term/34
I had the pleasure of co-authoring a book recently with my colleague Jan Raska on the history of the site of the museum, Pier 21: https://press.uottawa.ca/pier-21.html (available in French, too, thanks awesome press!).
The museum I work for has an ongoing and active #OralHistory program; I work with the interviews now but haven't been regularly interviewing in a while. It's how I started with the museum, though, and I contributed to interviewing for about a decade.
I am also the Chair of the Canadian Historical Association's public history working group. If you're a public historian in Canada, hit me up to keep in touch with the group! https://cha-shc.ca/affiliates/puhg.htm
Otherwise, you can expect parenting, biking, cats, and other things here too, along with probably some occasional but not-too-snippy politics on particular topics like public health, active transportation, and climate / environment measures.