COVID-19 front-line worker and her family face deportation to Mexico; anxious patients wait months for Pap test results; and charities offering hot meals grapple with rising costs
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Claudia Zamorano spent the pandemic working as a housekeeper in a COVID-19 ward in a B.C. hospital — but now she and her family face deportation to Mexico within weeks. She tells Matt Galloway her story; and we hear more about the government’s backlog of immigration cases from Warda Shazadi Meighen, a partner at Landings LLP and an adjunct professor of refugee law at the University of Toronto.
Then, wait times for cervical cancer screening results have gone from six weeks to six months in some jurisdictions. We hear about the toll that delay is taking on one patient in B.C.; and discuss the broader implications with Dr. Diane Francoeur, the CEO of The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.
And rising food prices are making it harder for charities that run food programs to help those in need. We pay a visit to the Scott Mission, a charity in Toronto; and talk to Ron Dunn, chief development officer at Souls Harbour Rescue Mission in Halifax; and Gisèle Yasmeen, a senior fellow who researches food security at the University of British Columbia's School of Public Policy and Global Affairs.