In The News

What follows are a list of some of the articles which have appeared in the press, television and radio about the Lost Canadians. This is by no means an exhaustive list. If you know of an article that appeared in the newspaper, in a magazine or on the radio or television, please let us know by sending me an email at dcinbc@yahoo.ca

Vancouver Observer: February 13, 2014 - Decades-long wait for citizenship coming to end for some Lost Canadians - "I cried when I was reading the (new citizenship) bill. I want to jump for joy, but I'm afraid to allow myself that until I can hold my citizenship card in my hand," said Jackie Scott, the daughter of a Canadian war veteran who has been waiting for nearly seven decades to receive the citizenship she was supposed to have all along. Click here to read more...

CKNW Vancouver: February 11, 2014 - The Bill Good Show Interview with Don Chapman, Leader of the Lost Canadians - Popular radio show host, Bill Good, interviews Don Chapman, Leader of the Lost Canadians, about proposed changes to the Citizenship Act. Click here to read more....

CBC Metro Morning: February 10, 2014 - Interview with Lost Canadian Marion Vermeersch - Lost Canadian Marion Vermeersch speaks about about proposed changes to the Citizenship Act that will have a direct impact on her decade long struggle to have her citizenship recognized by the Canadian government. Click here to read more....

Montreal Gazette: February 7, 2014 - Lost Canadian provisions in citizenship bill fall short: critics - Measures aimed at closing the citizenship loophole for so-called lost Canadians came up short, critics said Friday — a day after the government introduced a sweeping bill overhauling the Citizenship Act. Bill C-24, the Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act, purports to restore citizenship for those born before 1947 when Canada didn’t have a Citizenship Act and were thus considered British subjects, as well as their first generation children who were born outside Canada and often only learned they weren’t Canadian when they tried to get a passport. Click here to read more....

The Tyee: February 7, 2014 - 'Lost Canadians' Advocate Isn't Celebrating Yet - Changes to Citizenship Act leave Don Chapman 'guardedly optimistic', but court battle continues. - They're known as the Lost Canadians: people who have spent much of their lives in Canada, but have lost their citizenship thanks to a series of bizarre provisions in the country's antiquated citizenship laws. Each case has its own unique parameters: some are Mennonites. Others celebrated their 24th birthday in a foreign country sometime between 1947 and 1977. Many are the children of Canadian servicemen and "war brides" born out of wedlock before 1947, when the Canadian Citizenship Act first came into effect (children born within the bonds of marriage automatically took their father's nationality). Click here to read more...

Daily Gleaner: February 5, 2014 - 'Injustice' to war brides may finally be addressed - A Fredericton author who has written extensively on Canada's war brides is praising a commitment by the federal government to correct what many believe to be a "historical injustice." Melynda Jarratt, author of War Brides: The stories of the women who left everything behind to follow the men they loved, said recent comments by Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander that changes to the Citizenship Act are forthcoming has left her thrilled. "I am over the moon," Jarratt said. "It remains to be seen, but I think they're going to do it." Click here to read more...

February 5, 2014: Rick Howe Show 88.9 FM - Listen to Rick Howe interview Don Chapman on 88.9 FM News Radio discuss proposed changes to the Citizenship Act which could finally solve the problem of War Bride children and children born out of wedlock prior to 1947. Click here to read more...

January 31, 2014: Rick Howe Show 88.9 FM - Listen to Rick Howe interview Don Chapman on 88.9 FM News Radio about the announcement by the Citizenship Minister that the lost Canadian issue will finally be resolved with the introduction of new legislation. Click here to read more...

January 29, 2014: The Royal Canadian Legion Dominion President, Gordon Moore, is encouraged by Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander's statement that changes to the Citizenship Act are forthcoming. In particular, complicated circumstances that have barred War Brides and children of War Brides from obtaining Canadian citizenship will be fixed under new legislation. Click here to read more...

January 27, 2014: Ottawa Citizen - Canadian Citizenship Should Mean More - If there is a recurring theme in the statutory media reviews of the Conservatives on and around the eighth anniversary of their election, it is their fondness for incremental change. ...The exception is citizenship and immigration, which was long the prerogative of Jason Kenney, the most effective minister in this government. His successor, Chris Alexander, is promising “the first comprehensive reform of the Citizenship Act in a generation.” This is something to watch....let it address the injustice of the “lost Canadians” who have been denied citizenship through loopholes in the law. Click here to read more...

January 24, 2014: CBC - Canadian citizenship rules face broad reform in 2014 - The federal government will introduce several changes to Canada's citizenship rules after members of Parliament return to Ottawa next Monday following a six-week hiatus, says Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander. Alexander said the reform will aim to give Canadian citizenship to "Lost Canadians" who had seen it denied from them for one reason or another over the years. "We want to make sure that those loopholes that have done great injustice to a few people for all of those decades are closed, and that Canadian citizenship embraces all of those it should have embraced from the beginning." "Some are children of war brides, some have other complicated circumstances which should never have barred them from citizenship, and we have to fix the legislation," the minister said. Click here to read more...

January 10, 2014: Vancouver Observer - Amid deportation fears, Indigenous Lost Canadian struggles to gain citizenship - In the cold northern town of Dawson City, Yukon, 59-year-old Donovan McGlaughlin speaks with a heavy voice as he describes what it's like to wake up each morning, wondering if the government will deport him. McLaughlin lacks identity papers, and can't prove he is a Canadian citizen. Click here to read more....

November 26, 2013: Rick Howe Show on 97.5 FM Halifax - Rick Howe interviews Lost Canadians Doris McKay and a man named "Jarrett" along with Don Chapman of the Lost Canadians. Click here for more.

November 10, 2013: Vancouver Observer -  No More Silence on Remembrance Day - Thousands of legitimate Canadians, including war veterans and their children, have been denied Canadian citizenship due to arcane provisions of the Citizenship Act, some of them blatantly discriminatory. Known as the "Lost Canadians", these people are still waiting for justice from a federal government that has promised change for years while refusing to act. Two minutes of silence on Remembrance Day?  Not me. Why?  Because I think the best way to honour our war dead is to speak out on their behalf.  And they need a voice in the worst way. Click here for more...

 August 6, 2013: McLeans Magazine - ‘Lost Canadian’ court action looks to overhaul citizenship laws - Canadian citizenship laws may need to be overhauled if a so-called “lost Canadian” wins her legal battle. Jackie Scott, 68, was refused citizenship even though she came to Canada with her British mother and Canadian father at the age of two. A judicial review of that refusal was scheduled for July, but Scott put it on hold so she and her lawyers could broaden the court action. Click here to read more...

August 6, 2013: CTV News - 'Lost Canadian' court challenge looks to overhaul citizenship laws - Canadian citizenship laws may need to be overhauled if a so-called "lost Canadian" wins her legal battle. Jackie Scott, 68, was refused citizenship even though she came to Canada with her British mother and Canadian father at the age of two. A judicial review of that refusal was scheduled for July, but Scott put it on hold so she and her lawyers could broaden the court action. Click here to read more...

August 6, 2013: Vancouver Sun - 'Lost Canadian' court action looks to overhaul citizenship laws - Canadian citizenship laws may need to be overhauled if a so-called "lost Canadian" wins her legal battle. Jackie Scott, 68, was refused citizenship even though she came to Canada with her British mother and Canadian father at the age of two. A judicial review of that refusal was scheduled for July, but Scott put it on hold so she and her lawyers could broaden the court action. Click here to read more...

August 6, 2013: Halifax Chronicle Herald - ‘Lost Canadian’ widens action in citizenship case - Documents filed Friday in Federal Court in Vancouver show Scott is petitioning for “declarations” from the court that could have serious ramifications for Canadian citizenship, including whether Parliament has total control over who is considered Canadian. Scott said even though she would have loved to settle her own citizenship dispute back in July, her fight has become about much more than herself. Click here to read more....

August 6, 2013: Vancouver Sun - ‘Lost Canadian’ Jackie Scott kicks off citizenship battle in B.C. court - Scott was born in England in 1945 to a Canadian serviceman and a British woman and later migrated to Canada. The government claims Scott’s father was legally a British subject rather than a Canadian at the time because Canada’s first citizenship act did not come into effect until 1947 and because her father and mother were not then maried, Scott cannot automatically be considered a Canadian. Click here to read more....

July 25, 2013: Vancouver Sun - Indian status and citizenship both out of reach for desperate Ontario mom - Despite a Canadian Ojibwa bloodline spanning so many years ago that her grandmother can’t put a date on it, Heather Harnois is considered neither aboriginal, nor Canadian. It means that while she grew up in this country since her teens, the now 25-year-old mother of two can’t get a social insurance number, health-care coverage or child tax benefits even though one of her children was born in Canada. Click here for more...


July 24, 2013: Ottawa Citizen Editorial: Lost Canadians - Jackie Scott should not need to go to court to get the Canadian citizenship that is hers by right, and which she eminently deserves. Scott, who is 68, is one of the thousands of so-called Lost Canadians who have been denied citizenship because of a quirk in the law that should not be countenanced in today’s Canada. Click here for more....


July 23, 2013: Sing Tao Daily - For the Chinese Canadian perspective on the Lost Canadians. Click here for more....

July 23, 2013: UPI 'Lost Canadian' woman sues Canadian government for citizenship - A woman born to a Canadian soldier and a British woman during World War II sued the Canadian government after she was denied Canadian citizenship. Click here for more....

CBC The National: "Still A Lost Canadian"

July 22, 2013: CTV "Lost Canadian" denied citizenship mulls class-action suit - Surrey resident Jackie Scott can pay taxes and vote, but the Federal Government says she is not Canadian. Click for more...

July 22, 2013: Vancouver Sun ‘Lost Canadian’ hopes to overhaul Canadian citizenship laws in court - Thousands of so-called “Lost Canadians” may have their day in court if a woman who’s waited years to establish her own Canadian citizenship decides to pursue a class-action lawsuit. Click here for more...

July 22, 2013: Vancouver Observer - Landmark Lost Canadian court case could redefine citizenship law - The Lost Canadians court case starting in Vancouver could set a precedent for how the government deems people eligible for citizenship. Click here for more...

July 22, 2013: CBC: 'Lost Canadian' sues government for citizenship Jacquie Scott was born out of wedlock to a British mother and Canadian father during WWII - A woman born to a Canadian soldier and a British woman during the Second World War is suing the federal government after being denied Canadian citizenship. Jacquie Scott says it was only 10 years ago that she discovered she was not officially a Canadian, even though she was raised in Canada by her Canadian father. Click here for more...

July 22, 2013: Globe and Mail ‘Lost Canadian’ hopes to overhaul Canadian citizenship laws through class-action lawsuit - A woman who has waited years to establish her Canadian citizenship in court is considering expanding her case into a class-action lawsuit to include thousands of other so-called “lost Canadians.” Jackie Scott, 68, was refused citizenship even though she came to Canada with her British mother and Canadian father at the age of two and spent most of her life here. A judicial review of that denial was to have started on Monday, but as the proceedings got under way, Ms. Scott put it on hold so she and her lawyers could broaden the court action. Click here for more...



July 22, 2013: National Post: Brian Hutchinson: ‘Lost Canadian’ fighting nonsensical law that prevents war babies from becoming citizens - Jackie Scott has no doubt that she is Canadian. It’s in her blood, and in the way she was raised. Her father was a Canadian soldier who served overseas during the Second World War. He met a British woman. The couple fell in love and had a child. Click here for more...



Canada.com : NDP makes pitch to fix ‘Lost Canadian’ citizenship quagmire

July 19, 2013: Vancouver Sun: Daphne Bramham: Federal government parses patriotism in strange ways when defining citizenship Lives will depend on whether courts buy in to federal arguments about what is Canadian. There is something discordant in the federal government’s view of citizenship and what it means to be Canadian. Somehow it was important to spend more than $28 million marking the War of 1812 as a “Canadian” war. Yet, repeatedly in Federal Court, the Federal Court of Appeal and even the Supreme Court, there is a complete avowal by the federal government that before 1947 there was any such thing as a Canadian.Click here for more...

July 16, 2013: LOST CANADIAN PRESS RELEASE - New Citizenship Minister Faces 65 year old Problem That Won't Go Away: War bride child fights for citizenship in Federal Court A Surrey, B.C. woman who arrived in Canada 65 years ago with her British war bride mother is fighting for her citizenship in the Federal Court of Canada. Because she was born before her parents’ marriage, she is excluded from citizenship by a technicality in Canada’s pre-1977 citizenship law. Click here for more...

July 16, 2013: Vancouver Observer - Canadian military couple fights for adopted child's right to citizenship Not Canadian enough? Sarah Currie and her husband Mike are an Ottawa-based couple looking forward to bringing a child in their lives: 23-month-old Smith, a boy currently living in a Haitian orphanage. Click here for more...

June 6, 2013: Ottawa Citizen - NDP tries to fix "Lost Canadians" quagmire They are men and women who have been denied citizenship because their fathers were technically British subjects when they got their would-be war brides pregnant while serving during the Second World War. Click here for more....


June 6, 2013: Canada.com - NDP makes pitch to fix "Lost Canadian" citizenship The NDP will table a motion before a Commons committee on Thursday - the anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Nazi-Germany occupied France - to recognize that the situation of the remaining Lost Canadians "has gone unaddressed for too long." Click here for more...



September 22, 2012: The National Post Thousands of ‘Lost Canadians’ struggling to achieve citizenship stuck in legal quagmire - It was a remarkable exchange, caught on tape. Jason Kenney, Canada’s Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, was confronted in June by a 67-year-old woman to whom his department had denied citizenship, thanks to circumstances surrounding her birth. Circumstances that were not extraordinary. Jackie Scott was born out of wedlock in England, to a Canadian soldier and his British lover, just before the Second World War had ended. She is a war bride child. Canada has thousands of them. Click here for more...

September 1, 2012: Vancouver Observer Kafkaesque bureaucracy denies citizenship to legitimate Canadians - Jackie Scott and Linda Missal De Cock have collectively lived in Canada for over a century. Scott, the daughter of a war bride and Canadian soldier, arrived in Canada from England in 1948, and resided here for 57 years. De Cock, meanwhile, has lived in Canada for 69 out of 70 years. The women, living on opposite ends of the country, went to school, married, and carved a life out for themselves in Canada. But bizarrely -- even as Canada accepts 250,000 new immigrant Canadians a year -- government has denied such individuals citizenship. Click here for more...

July 10, 2012: Globe and Mail: Conrad Black asks for a say in Order of Canada hearing - Almost a year after Conrad Black learned that he could lose his Order of Canada, the former media baron has gone to court to force the council reviewing his membership to hear him in person. Click here for more...

July 10, 2012, Toronto Star: Conrad Black wants say at Order of Canada hearing - Disgraced former media baron Conrad Black insists he shouldn’t be stripped of his Order of Canada without being able to personally defend himself. Click here for more...
 Toronto SunJuly 8, 2012, Toronto Sun: Second World War not over for would-be Canadian - It’s pretty hard to believe that Citizenship Minister Jason Kenney would tell the daughter of a Canadian war veteran in Vancouver that her father, who was born in Canada and had never set foot out of the country until it asked him to go to war, was not, in fact, a Canadian citizen but a British subject. Insulting, degrading ... and wrong. This is a theme Kenney and Citizenship and Immigration (CIC) have been pushing for some time. It’s not just a slip of the tongue or a misunderstanding, but a considered view to which the government is apparently committed. Or, as Jason Kenney told Jackie Scott, who confronted him: “(Soldiers) are heroes, but at the time they were British subjects.” He said prior to 1947 there was no such thing as a “Canadian” citizen. Click here for more...
  
July 2, 2012, Vancouver Observer: Jason Kenney tells war veteran daughter: soldiers were "heroes," but not Canadian citizens - Citizenship Minister Jason Kenney told Jackie Scott, the daughter of a Canadian war veteran, that her father – and others serving the country – technically weren't Canadian at the time they were fighting for their country. Click here for more...
May 25, 2012, Toronto Star - Citizenship Insane: Here we go again. This week we ran the story of Lawrence Connelly, born in 1967 to a Canadian military family based in Germany, who found out this year that he cannot get a passport unless he can prove he’s a citizen — and the DND certificate of birth isn’t proof. Click here for more...
Jackie Scott in a recent photo.
The Canadian government will not
grant her citizenship because
she was born out of wedlock.

May 10, 2012: 1940s document key to citizenship for Lost Canadian Jackie Scott: “Absurd injustice” denies citizenship to War Bride children - A Surrey, B.C. woman who arrived in Canada in 1948 with her War Bride mother is now fighting for her citizenship in the Federal Court. A document from the 1940s recently discovered in the Library and Archives in Ottawa could hold the key to citizenship for Jackie Scott and others, known as Lost Canadians, who are excluded from citizenship because they were born out of wedlock outside Canada before 1947. Jackie Scott was born in England in 1945 to a Canadian father and a British mother. She was born out of wedlock because her father, a Canadian soldier of the Second World War, could not get the required permission to marry. Such cases were common and inevitable under wartime conditions. Click here for more....

Jackie Scott with her
parents at Niagara Falls in 1948.


May 10,2012 - Status of Illegitimate Child 1948: A ruling has been received from the Citizenship Branch concerning the status of an illegitimate child whose father is a Canadian citizen. The case upon which the ruling is based is as follows: “A Canadian born citizen was living in the United States out of wedlock with an American born woman. They had an illegitimate child born in the United States. Subsequent to the birth of the child (three weeks thereafter) the parents were married. The father returned to Canada and his wife and child later applied for entry to join him. Our examining officer at the port of entry took the view that the child, having been born out of wedlock, came under Part 1, Section 4, (b) of the Canadian Citizenship Act, deriving citizenship from his mother. Therefore, the child was regarded as an immigrant, of American citizenship, and admitted as such. However, when the facts were submitted to the Citizenship Branch for review the Registrar furnished the following ruling:-  Click here for more....

May 10, 2012: On February 9th, 1945, the Cabinet made an Order in Council that is now all but forgotten but is of continuing importance to one group of remaining Lost Canadians: War Bride children who arrived in Canada before January 1st, 1947. Some of them, after a lifetime in Canada, are still excluded from citizenship because they were born out of wedlock, even if their parents later married. The purpose of this note is to show that this continuing denial of citizenship is both historically and legally indefensible. Click here for more. Click here for more...



Vancouver ObserverMarch 16, 2012: Vancouver Observer: Lifelong Canadians face discrimination by their own government...still - Advocates for Lost Canadians – those excluded from citizenship because of obscure legal loopholes – are asking questions after citizenship and immigration minister Jason Kenney seemingly admitted to discrimination recently at a press conference. Click here for more...

Vancouver ObserverMarch 8, 2012: Vancouver Observer - Discriminatory laws against unwed mothers leave Lost Canadian Ken Smith out in the cold - Ken Smith and his wife Liz Johnston love to travel. But recently, planning a vacation has become a nearly impossible task. “Lately, we’ve had some problems at the border because of my weird situation, where I can’t say I’m Canadian but I’ve lived here the majority of my life,” said Smith. The 68-year-old White Rock resident is one of a number of Lost Canadians, excluded from citizenship due to the country’s archaic laws. Despite having lived in Canada since 1945, he’s been rejected twice by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. And ever since border security ramped up after 9/11 he says he’s had terrible experiences with customs officials. Click here for more...

March 8, 2012: Huffington Post - Harper Could Make This a Happier Women's Day - Two weeks ago, years of Harper government inaction forced Mrs. Jackie Scott, now 66, to file an action in the Federal Court in Vancouver gain her citizenship. It was denied to her because she was born out-of-wedlock. Click here to read more....

March 7, 2012:
Lost Canadians Say Citizenship a Battle for Women’s Rights - As Canada prepares to observe International Women’s Day on Thursday, some Canadians are still excluded from citizenship solely because they were born to unwed mothers over 65 years ago. They are part of a group known as Lost Canadians: people who are excluded from citizenship or are having difficulty claiming it because of the date or circumstances of their birth. Click here for more....

Vancouver ObserverFebruary 23, 2012: Lost Canadians sue government over discriminatory citizenship - While speaking at a press conference in Surrey, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney stated that the government does not deny citizenship based on age, gender or marital status. Yet these factors are at the heart of problem for "Lost Canadians", who are taking the federal government to court over its refusal to grant citizenship to victims of Canada's discriminatory laws of the past. Click here for more....

Vancouver ObserverJanuary 28, 2012: Vancouver Observer - Daughter of Canadian war veteran, Jackie Scott, denied citizenship by Canada. Again - Jackie Scott was trembling as she waited for the FedEx envelope from Citizenship and Immigration Canada. When she started reading out the letter that accompanied the citizenship applications that she had sent two years ago, tears sprang to her eyes. She had been denied citizenship. Again. Click here for more...

December 2011 - Readers Digest: How Unjust Legal Quirks Rob Canadians of their Citizenship - The world's most read magazine has finally featured the story of the Lost Canadians on its front cover this December, 2011! Written by Drew Nelles, the six page article Lost Canadians: How Unjust Legal Quirks Rob Canadians of their Citizenship, features an interview with Don Chapman, leader of the Lost Canadians and tells the the true life story of several victims, including Guy Vallieres, a Second World War veteran who died in 2009, disenfranchised from his own country. Click here to read more...

November 9, 2011 - Toronto Star: Suit seeks citizenship for ‘Lost Canadians’ - Peter Brammah had always considered himself as Canadian as it gets, enlisting in the Royal Canadian Navy and serving as a police officer in Calgary. But Brammah, now 75 and in poor health, didn’t realize until 2002 that he was not considered a Canadian citizen, even though he has lived in Canada since he was six years old. His parents were both British subjects, but Brammah’s mother came to Canada with him as a child after divorcing his father and then marrying a Canadian citizen. Click here to read more...

November 7, 2011 - Yahoo News! Lawsuit aims to return citizenship to elderly "lost" Canadians - "This has got a lot of tentacles and it's going to affect a lot of people and potentially cost a lot of money," he said, adding the suit is only the first in a series of planned legal manoeuvres. Click here to read more....

November 6, 2011 - CTV: Lawsuit seeks citizenship for elderly 'lost' Canadians VANCOUVER — Peter Brammah sailed with the Canadian navy and later worked for Calgary's police force. Despite serving this country as both a naval and police officer, he can't actually call Canada his own. Click here to read more.

October 28, 2011: Coast Reporter: Back to court for Lost Canadians - The leader of the Lost Canadians, Don Chapman of Gibsons, said he once again intends to take the government of Canada to court over citizenship discrimination. Having taken up the cause of 10 people he said were undeservingly stripped of their citizenship, Chapman described the group’s position as being indisputable. Click here to read more.

2011

August 8, 2011
Lost Canadians to take Canadian government to court, advocate tells war vets
Vancouver Observer

July 1, 2011
On Canada Day, Lost Canadians Sit on the Sidelines
Huffington Post

July 1, 2011
More Equality Needed for All in Canada
Vancouver Observer

July 2011
Are You Sure You're a Canadian?
Downhome Magazine, Newfoundland

May 26, 2011
The Lost Canadians
Huffington Post Canada


April 29, 2011
Toronto Zoomer Radio 740 AM: Dale Goldhawk Live
Interview with Don Chapman

April 20, 2011
So you think you're Canadian, eh?
by Robert Addington, Vancouver Observer

April 20, 2011
Candidates Trudeau and Dosanjh rattle Tories' cage on family reunification and citizenship
by Darren Fleet, Vancouver Observer

March 30, 2011
Fighting for the Lost Canadians
By Sean Kolenko - North Shore Outlook

March 23, 2011
Ian Munroe, War Bride Child Complaint to Human Rights Commission Leads to Citizenship
CTV

March 22, 2011
Interview with War Bride Child, Ian Munroe
The Tom Young Show, 88.9 FM, Saint John, New Brunswick

March 22, 2011
Interview with War Bride Child, Ian Munroe
The Karen Black Show, CJOB-Winnipeg, Manitoba

March 20, 2011
War Bride Child Makes Human Rights Complaint to Federal Rights Agency-Says Department Discriminates Against Children Born out of Wedlock during WWII

March 18, 2011
Justin Trudeau says citizenship rules that discriminate against Lost Canadians must change Liberals pledge further action for “lost Canadians”
Office of Justin Trudeau, Member of Parliament,

March 13, 2011
Canada Pension Plan debacle
by Rob Granatstein, Editorial Page Editor, Toronto Sun

March 12, 2011
Daughter of Canadian war veteran fights 18 years for citizenship
by Darren Fleet, The Vancouver Observer

March 8, 2011
Time for women's groups to stand up for war bride children
Op-Ed by Melynda Jarratt, Halifax Chronicle Herald

March 8, 2011
War Bride Children Deserve Better
Letter to the Editor, National Post

March 6, 2011
Time for women's groups to stand up for war bride children
Op-Ed by Melynda Jarratt, NB Media Co-op, Fredericton, NB.

March 5, 2011
Op-Ed by Melynda Jarratt, Sarnia Daily News, Sarnia Ontario

February 28, 2011
Lost Canadian Velma Demerson's tragic story of love and loss
by Darren Fleet, Vancouver Observer

February 17, 2011
Canadian Citizenship Laws: Interview with Don Chapman
PBS Television 8 Arizona, USA

February 17, 2011
Finding the Lost Canadians
Op-Ed by Don Chapman, The Mark, Vancouver, BC

February 11, 2011
Daughter of Canadian war veteran still denied Canadian citizenship
by Darren Fleet, Vancouver Observer

February 11, 2011
To Stand on Guard for Thee
Op-Ed by Don Chapman for the Vancouver Observer

2010

December 29, 2010
The Lost Canadians - Fighting for Canadian Home Soil
Voice America, In Discussion with David Gibbons

December 23, 2010
Not your standard new Canadian
by Darren Fleet, Vancouver Observer

December 23, 2010
Born in Canada, but not Canadian
by Emily Barca, Vancouver Observer

December 10, 2010
Transformational Canadians - Don Chapman is reclaiming citizenship for lost Canadians
Globe and Mail

December 10, 2010
Born Canadians are still winding up stateless
Op-Ed by Don Chapman, Calgary Herald

December 10, 2010
Human rights not a right for all, even in Canada
Op-ed by Don Chapman, Vancouver Observer

December 5, 2010
Tug of war intensifies between Lost Canadian advocate and citizenship minister
Vancouver Observer

November 23, 2010
Lost Canadians Left in Limbo
Opinion, Lethbridge Herald

November 22, 2010
Stateless Canadians fight for citizenship
By Diana Mehta, Halifax Chronicle Herald

November 21, 2010
Lost Canadians seek citizenship at home
By Diana Mehta, MSN

November 21, 2010
Frustrated but fighting: 'Lost Canadians' push Ottawa to make them true CanucksBy Diana Mehta, Canadian Press
This article also appeared under the same headline in countless newspapers, radio, tv and internet media across Canada, including the Winnipeg Free Press, Kitchener Waterloo Record, the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal, CTV News, CJAD, 680 FM, 660 FM, etc. etc.

November 17, 2010
Lost Canadians: Minister Gets It Wrong
Letter to the Editor, The Brunswickan

November 17, 2010
Lost Canadians: Let the dialogue begin
Letter to the Editor, The Brunswickan

November 12, 2010
Lost Canadian Veteran Just Wants to Belong
by Melynda Jarratt, The Daily Gleaner

November 3, 2010
Lost Canadians: the biggest story you’ve never heard: The incredible story of how the Canadian government left so many out in the cold
By Colin McPhail, The Brunswickan

November 3, 2010
The time has come to give lost Canadian veterans citizenship
Daily Gleaner, Fredericton, NB

November 1, 2010
Canadian Philanthropist and Citizenship Critic in Fredericton for Public Lecture on Lost Canadians

October 31, 2010
Trudeau leads MPs' call for citizenship law reform
Vancouver Observer

October 30, 2010
The Inexplicable Tragedy of our Lost Canadians
Dan Veniez

October 21, 2010
Citizenship Week No Time for Celebration

October 21, 2010
Vancouver Observer Series on Lost Canadians wins top award at 2010 Candian Online Publishers Awards
Vancouver Observer

October 21, 2010
Voice America: Lost Canadians with Don Chapman, Ian Munroe, Jackie Scott and Jan Makin
In Discussion with David Gibbons on Voice America Network

October 20, 2010
Government violates charter by denying citizenship to Lost Canadians, says Don Chapman
by Emily Barca, Vancouver Observer

October 20, 2010
Justin Trudeau, Liberal Citizenship Critic, Speaks out in support of Lost Canadians during Citizenship Week

October 14, 2010
Ujjal Dosanjh speaks about proposed amendments to the Citizenship Act and Lost Canadians
The Current, CBC

October 7, 2010
Citizens of Nowhere
The Current, CBC

October 3, 2010
Canadian citizenship drama broadcast on national U.S. radio
by Megan Stewart, Vancouver Observer

September 8, 2010
Lost Canadian denied citizenship and now has to fight for pension benefits
by Daphne Bramham, Vancouver Sun

September 7, 2010
Canadian war bride denied passport
by Daphne Bramham, Vancouver Sun

September 4, 2010
War bride, 87, denied new passport Bureaucrats prevent Canadian resident of 67 years from seeing her great-grandchildren
by Daphne Bramham, Vancouver Sun

July 12, 2010
Howard Kornblum's fight for Canadian citizenship
by Megan Stewart, Vancouver Observer

July 2010
10 Part Series in the Vancouver Observer

June 30, 2010
Sandra Burke: Woman learns, too late, she is not a Canadian
By Nicholas Keung Immigration Reporter, The Toronto Star

March 10, 2010
Who stands on guard for lost Canadians?
By Melynda Jarratt and Don Chapman, Halifax Chronicle Herald

March 10, 2010
Women's Day woes
By Antonia Zerbisias, Living Columnist, Toronto Star

March 9, 2010
Gender discrimination in citizenship act
By Melynda Jarratt and Don Chapman, Daily Gleaner, Fredericton, NB

March 7, 2010
'Lost Canadians' seek route home; Man urges Canada to fix holes in immigration laws to restore citizenship
The National Post

February 23, 2010
Jack Babcock Was A Lost Canadian
By Melynda Jarratt, Daily Gleaner, Fredericton, NB

February 5, 2010
Case made for Canada's war brides
by Adam Huras, The Telegraph Journal

February 4, 2010
78 Year Old Canadian Not a Citizen: No status, no health card
By ANNE SUTHERLAND, The Gazette

January 27, 2010
‘Lost Canucks’ fight for rights
By Jason Halstead, WINNIPEG SUN

2009
December 31, 2009
Honour pledge to war brides
Letter to Editor, Telegraph Journal, Saint John New Brunswick

December 31, 2009
Government stance looks cynical: Letter to Editor, Telegraph Journal, Saint John NB

December 30, 2009
Battle to prove citizenship not unusual, says advocate
By Benjamin Shingler, Telegraph Journal

December 28, 2009
Child of War Bride in Limbo
By Benjamin Shingler, Telegraph Journal

November 16, 2009
Toronto Sun: Our 'lost' Canadians
By Peter Worthington, The Toronto Sun

October 17, 2009
Lost Canadians denied citizenship with 'out-of-wedlock' status
By Daphne Bramham, Vancouver Sun

September 25, 2009
Citizenship Act creates a 'stateless' child ; Rachel Chandler was born in Beijing on June 5 and she may well be the first child rendered stateless by ill-conceived amendments to Canada's Citizenship Act in mid-April.
The Vancouver Sun

2008
August 8, 2008
Kenilworth Weekly News
Leamington's 'Lost Canadian' dies


2007
May 30, 2007
CBC
'Lost' Canadian trapped in obscure citizenship rules

2006
May 05, 2006
Lost Canadian: Bill S-2 Passes

November 4, 2006
Toronto Star
Thousands of former citizens snared in long legal limbo; Fathers became citizens elsewhere Children stripped of citizenship

2005
December 21, 2005
Canada Free Press
Paul Martin's two classes of Canadian citizens

2003
January 31, 2003
Montreal Gazette
Elizabeth Thompson
Coderre must right citizenship injustice

February 06, 2003
Danielle Smith
Calgary Herald
Maybe you really can't go home again