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Justin Ling

Justin Ling is a freelance journalist based in Montreal, and the author of Missing From the Village.

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The Hands That Feed Us

Throughout the pandemic, temporary foreign workers have worked in cramped quarters under unsafe conditions to keep our pantries stocked. Is it time they were given a pathway to permanent residency?

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