While National Newswatch does not keep an archive of external articles for longer than 6 months, we do keep all articles written by contributors who post directly to our site. Here you will find all of the contributed and linked external articles from Priscilla Ki Sun Hwang.
Unions and lawyers worry Canada may be deprioritizing reconciliation and slowing Indigenous communities' access to justice, as looming public service cuts appear to heavily target the Indigenous rights and relations portfolio at the Department of Justice. "Now is not the time to cut any support for this really important area of Indigenous consultation, Indigenous negotiation and rights," said lawyer Cynthia...
Processing times for Canadian immigration applications have reached unprecedented lengths — up to 50 years under some permanent residency programs — stunning applicants and lawyers who say the system has become unviable. "We were shocked," said Olha Kushko, whose family fled Kyiv and settled in Ottawa in 2023 under the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel (CUAET), a special measure introduced...
Lack of privacy checks in $68M project raises ‘red flags,’ say lawyers. Three government agencies that partnered on a $68-million project to revamp Canada's asylum system failed to complete mandatory privacy safeguard tests for years while the project was being implemented, CBC News has learned. The lack of privacy protections raises "red flags," lawyers say, and may have put refugee...