Vanier Centre for Women: Pearson International Airport

Pearson International Airport: Avery Edison, 25, was held at the Maplehurst Correctional Complex in Milton for 20 hours. After her story spread online, sparked by her tweeting of her initial detention at Pearson International Airport , she was transferred Tuesday night to the nearby Vanier Centre for Women, according to The Star. Edisons lawyer, Adrienne Smith, was disappointed Currie would not let her client go so she could spend time with her girlfriend of two years in Toronto, Romy Sugden, before she would be put on an Air Transat flight back to London and A transgender woman who had been detained by immigration in a men-only jail was denied release Wednesday and will be removed from Canada Thursday. Edison was deemed inadmissible to Canada when she arrived at Pearson on Monday from her native England because she overstayed her visa on a previous visit here. At a closed-door detention hearing Wednesday, Immigration and Refugee Board member Valerie Currie denied Edisons release because the adjudicator didnt believe she was planning to leave and would appear for her flight. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.