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Rachel Parent

Canada, Toronto
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Food safety and environmental justice, that girl that debated about GMOs, TEDX speaker, former @NationalPost @NarcityCanada words in @globeandmail
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'This is the new slavery': Migrant farm workers underpaid, abused and injured

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By Robert Cribb Verified, Masih Khalatbari, Rachel Parent
| Brantford Expositor Verified
Nearly 80,000 foreign labourers pick the cherries, apples and wine that end up on Canadian tables. The system is set up to exploit them •   • Migrant workers overlook Okanagan Lake and Kelowna in late November. Many told the Investigative Journalism Bureau that they are unfairly compensated and living in substandard conditions. Others have recounted physical harm.
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'This is the new slavery': Migrant farm workers underpaid, abused, injured

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By Robert Cribb Verified, Masih Khalatbari, Rachel Parent
| London Free Press Verified
Her next memory, she says, was of her boss on top of her, kissing her against her will and doing “many things to my body.” “I wish I could have pushed him or hit him but I couldn’t,” says the woman, whose name is covered by a publication ban in a sexual assault case currently before the courts in B.C. “I wish I could have protected myself.” Maria is among tens of thousands from around the world who come to Canada every year to harvest and process fruit, tobacco, vegetables and other crops,...
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'This is the new slavery': Migrant farm workers underpaid, abused and injured

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By Robert Cribb Verified, Masih Khalatbari, Rachel Parent
| SaltWire Network Verified
Her next memory, she says, was of her boss on top of her, kissing her against her will and doing “many things to my body.” “I wish I could have pushed him or hit him but I couldn’t,” says the woman, whose name is covered by a publication ban in a sexual assault case currently before the courts in B.C. “I wish I could have protected myself.” Maria is among tens of thousands from around the world who come to Canada every year to harvest and process fruit, tobacco, vegetables and other crops,...
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