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Jen Dagsvik
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Access to justice outside the big cities. Immigration and refugee lawyer. Director of the Newcomer Legal Clinic in Thunder Bay. Asst prof to wonderful students at the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead U.
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I came across a clipping from the Terrace Bay (Ontario) News, Oct 3, 1973, inviting people without status to meet the immigration officer and do their paperwork for landing under the Adjustment of Status program.

No portal, no webform, no PDF forms that won't open. Just a human coming to town.
Newspaper clipping: MOBILE UNIT IN TERRACE BAY FRIDAY The Department of Manpower and Immigration Mobile Unit is making its last swing through the area, Tim Dodd, officer in charge of Thunder Bay's Immigration Centre said today. The mobile unit staffed by an immigration officer is travelling throught eh area to assist those people who are eligible to register under the immigration adjustment of status program. Anyone who is eligible to reghistere is urged to do so now, before the 15th of October. The fact that we have conditionally approved for landed status all who have been interviewed under the program is indicative of the relaxed regulations that are applied to people who are eligible for registration. Many of the early registrants, he said, were university or college students and able to interpret the new regulations for themselves. Our problem now, he said, is to get (continued on page 19....) MOBILE UNIT - continued from page 16 the message to the rest of the people who are in Canada without proper status, and to convince them to register. They have Manpower Minister Robert Andras' assurance that no one who is eligible for registration that who registers by the 15th of October will be penalized for the manner in which they came to Canada. The mobile unit will be in Terrace Bay on Friday, October 5th.
June 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Wonderful day on Friday with my immigration law class at Thunder Bay’s first citizenship ceremony since before the pandemic.

At the same time that we celebrated those getting Canadian citizenship, we remembered the injustices borne by those living in our community without it.
A clerk dressed in a black robe stands with his right arm up next to a digital Canadian flag. We see people standing and looking at the flag from the back as they swear the oath of citizenship.
March 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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View of Toronto at 6:45 am on board the 5:00 am flight from Thunder Bay. Almost makes the absurdly early flight worth it.
A photo of Toronto in the early morning, showing city lights, the lake beyond, and the sun just starting to rise over the horizon. In the foreground is a portion of the plane’s engine, painted red
December 3, 2024 at 11:57 AM