CCR webinars

NEW!

Webinars are interactive presentations that you join online and by phone. CCR webinars include encore presentations from popular Consultation sessions, as well as other topics of interest to refugee and newcomer advocates.

Have a suggestion for future webinars? Send an email to Colleen French at cfrench [at] ccrweb [dot] ca

Past webinars

Communicating against the Grain: Strategies to counter the criminalization of migrants
26 January 2012 - 2pm
With Karl Flecker, National Director, Anti-Racism and Human Rights Department, for the Canadian Labour Congress.  There is no shortage of ugly media stories and questionable governmental policies, stereotyping, profiling and criminalizing immigrants and refugees. Who and what is a ‘...
Training: How to organize a meeting with your Member of Parliament to talk about non-citizen children rights
7 February 2012 - 1pm
With Janet Dench, CCR Executive Director, Canadian Council for Refugees Canada has signed the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, thereby promising to respect the basic rights of children. But the rights of children who are not Canadian citizens are not always respected. In 2012, the UN...
Bill C-31 Rolls Back Refugee Protection: What you can do
1 March 2012 (All day)
Thursday March 1st, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm (Eastern time) With Rick Goldman, member of the CCR Executive Committee and Rob Shropshire, CCR interim Executive Director. The CCR is seriously concerned that new government legislation, Bill C-31 will create a two-tier system of refugee protection in...
Mapping Memories: Participatory media, place-based stories and refugee youth
5 March 2012 - 2pm
With Liz Miller, professor in Communication Studies at Concordia University (Montreal) and member of the Mapping Memories project. One powerful way to change public opinion about refugees in Canada is through personal stories. But how do we do this effectively and with respect for the...