Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer (I am a law student). The text below contains only my understanding of the applicable law. It has nothing whatsoever to do with your particular situation. Do not assume y...
Who haven’t heard of immigration queue jumpers? The current federal government used this term when it shut down visa-free travel from the Czech Republic and Mexico. Federal officials blamed ...
The recent arrival by boat in Vancouver of 76 Sri Lankan Tamil men has triggered heated debate about Canada’s refugee system. On October 28, the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the Universit...
By Krystalline Kraus, reproduced with permission
The battle to keep U.S. Iraq war resisters in Canada has been ongoing since January 2004 when Jeremy Hinzman first arrived in Canada and filed a refug...
Canada to take hard line with would-be migrants
Jane Armstrong and John Ibbitson write for the Globe:
Canada’s Immigration Minister has signalled that he intends to play hardball with 76 men b...
Judge formally strikes down security certificate against Charkaoui
Charkaoui is a landed immigrant who was arrested in Montreal in 2003 under security-certificate legislation that allows Canada to ex...
Third security certificate is double jeopardy, court told
Mahmoud Jaballah was first detained under a security certificate in 1999. He was released after the courts found the certificate to be unreas...
Divisive terror law losing traction
Can we trust secret evidence, often borrowed from foreign countries, to throw people out of Canada?
Colin Freeze explains the security certificates:
… fede...
Government appeals asylum ruling for South African
The federal government is appealing a controversial decision by an independent tribunal to grant asylum to a white South African because he feared b...
