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Temporary Farm Worker Program
COVID-19 raising costs of bringing foreign workers to Okanagan
With commercial flights cancelled between Mexico and Canada, Okanagan fruit growers are having to pay…
Essential Okanagan farm workers should have the same rights as citizens: activist group
Despite being called temporary foreign workers, the thousands of people who are essential to getting…
You can help these Mexican workers fired from a West Kelowna nursery
A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to try to replace the income lost by two…
Province takes steps to provide more campsites for temporary farmworkers
A search is on in the Okanagan for suitable locations for additional campsites to provide…
Mexican farm workers destined for Okanagan begin landing in Vancouver tomorrow
A charter plane with about 150 Mexican farm workers will land at Vancouver International Airport…
When foreign workers arrive, orchardists will have pandemic precautions to consider
As thousands of temporary foreign workers are anticipated to return to the Okanagan, the question…
Foreign workers for Okanagan farms, orchards still aren’t allowed to travel to Canada
Okanagan farms and orchards were expecting big news last night and thought they got it…
Time for change in thinking on temporary farm worker housing, Kelowna council says
CENTRAL OKANAGAN – The four Central Okanagan municipalities and the regional district are moving to…