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Covert calls for help — a hotline for migrant workers

A third Mexican worker has died from COVID-19 on a Canadian farm. Two people who staff a hotline for migrant farm workers give us an inside look at this crisis as it unfolded.
Three Mexican farm workers have died of COVID-19 in southern Ontario. (Julia Page/CBC)

COVID-19 outbreaks have ripped through farms in Canada, particularly in southern Ontario, taking a toll on migrant workers. Three have already died. 

Desperate for help, workers have been calling a hotline staffed by the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change — usually in secret. Today, the two people who staff that hotline give us an inside look at this crisis as it unfolded.

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