Cele mai bune Deanna Okun Nachoff podcast-uri (2024)

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#131 - Cutting Immigration Levels 1:07:00

1d ago1:07:00

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A discussion of Canada's 2025-2027 Immigration Levels Plan and the 2024 Report to Parliament on Immigration, in which the Trudeau government cut planned permanent residence levels by 20%, imposed caps on the number of international students and workers that would be allowed into the country and declared that they expect 1,000,000+ people currently …

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#130 - Challenges and Benefits of Hiring Immigrants, with Alice Craft 1:07:01

7d ago1:07:01

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Alice Craft is a Research Associate in the Immigration knowledge area at the Conference Board of Canada. She recently published a paper titled Small Business, Big Impact Immigrant Hiring and Integration in Five Canadian Cities. We discuss the key findings of that study -- namely, that: In fast-growing small and mid-sized Canadian cities, small and …

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[Repost] #7 - The impact of immigration on the Vancouver housing market, with David Eby and Tom Davidoff 48:17

12d ago48:17

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This episode orginally aired on October 28, 2016. A discussion of the role of immigration on the Vancouver housing market. Tom Davidoff is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business. He is frequently cited in the Vancouver media as being an expert on Vancouver's housing market, and was part of a team of…

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#129 - Is Record Immigration Hurting Canada's Middle Class?, with Mike Moffatt 57:44

14d ago57:44

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Mike Moffatt is the Senior Director of Policy and Innovation at the Smart Prosperity Institute and an Assistant Professor in the Business, Economics and Public Policy group at Ivey Business School, Western University. He is the host of the Missing Middle podcast. 1:20 Mike's speech to the Liberal Cabinet in August 2024 re. the impact of the Tempora…

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#128 - An Interview with Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration from 2008-2012 1:04:33

22d ago1:04:33

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Jason Kenney was Canada's Minister of Citizenship and Immigration from 2008-2013. 1:30 – The story behind Jason Kenney showing up unannounced at a CBA Immigration Law conference. 4:30 – The difficulties of being an immigration minister and Minister Kenney’s relationship with the bureaucracy and Deanna’s thoughts on Jason Kenney’s tenure. 9:30 – Mar…

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[Repost] #44 - An Interview with Chris Alexander, Canada's Immigration Minister from 2013-2015 1:34:46

26d ago1:34:46

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This episode originally aired on November 30, 2020. The Honourable Chris Alexander served as Canada's Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada from July 2013 to November 2015. He represented the riding of Ajax—Pickering in the House of Commons of Canada from 2011 to 2015. Prior to that spent 18 years in the Canadian Foreign Service, serving a…

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#127 - Maintaining Permanent Residence and Changes to Citizenship by Descent 47:06

29d ago47:06

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Amandeep Hayer and Lisa Middlemiss join to discuss maintaining permanent resident status and upcoming changes to citizenship by descent law, both of which were topics in their recently published book Maintaining Permanent Residence Status and Acquiring Citizenship. Amandeep's article in the Toronto Star about Bill C-71 can be found here. Bill C-71 …

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#126 - How are We Dealing with Refugees (Eating our Pets), with Christopher Anders 1:07:10

1M ago1:07:10

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Christopher Anders is a shareholder of Parker, Butte & Lane in Oregon. He focuses his practice on representing asylum seekers before the Asylum Offices of USCIS and in removal proceedings before the Immigration Courts of EOIR. We discuss how record refugee flows are impacting politics in both Canada and the United States. Hosted on Acast. See acast…

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#125 - Chinese Interference, the United Front, and Visa Delays, with Sam Cooper 56:15

1M ago56:15

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Sam Cooper is an award-winning investigative journalist and best-selling author. He is the founder of The Bureau, and his book, Wilful Blindness - How a Criminal network of narcos, tycoons and Chinese Communist Party agents infiltrated the West, debuted as a #1-seller on Amazon, in Canada. We discuss the United Front, foreign interference in Canada…

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#124 - Flagpoling, with Arshdeep Kahlon 49:05

2M ago49:05

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Arshdeep Kahlon is an immigration lawyer in Brampton. He was counsel in Singh v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2024 FC 1369, where the Court had to determine whether it is misrepresentation for an applicant in a visa application to not disclose that they were previously not granted entry to the United States while flagpoling. Topics include…

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#123 - Spousal Sponsorship Interviews and Appeals, with Raj Sharma 50:34

2M ago50:34

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Raj Sharma is an immigration lawyer in Calgary. We discuss spousal sponsorship applications and appeals, showing that a relationship is genuine, arranged marriage, the primary purpose of a marriage, interview preparation, how Immigration Appeal Division appeals work, interpretation issues, in person hearings vs. remote, res judicata and inconsisten…

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#122 - US Visa Refusals, Administrative Processing, ESTA Cancellations and Flagpoling, with Andrew Hayes 49:15

2M ago49:15

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Andrew Hayes is an American immigration lawyer who practices out of Vancouver, British Columbia. He previously appeared on episodes #32 - Keep Out the Poor - How Canada and the US Address Immigrants on Welfare, with Andrew Hayes, #37 - The Closure of the Canada - US Border and the Supreme Court's DACA Decision, and #41 - Judges Virtue Signalling In…

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#121 - Top Federal Court Immigration Cases 55:15

2M ago55:15

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Deanna and Steven discuss what we consider to be some top Federal Court immigration decisions to this point in 2024. Cases include Toor v. Canada, 2024 FC 1146 (restoration), Chung v. Canada, 2024 FC 1218 (misrepresentation when a degree is obtained through plagerism), Abdool v. Canada, 2024 FC 1172 (misrepresentation and involuntary cancellations …

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#120 - Is Canadian Immigration Policy Broken, with Siavash Shekarian 1:01:37

3M ago1:01:37

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Siavash Shekarian is an immigration lawyer in Toronto, and the Executive Member & Public Affairs Liaison of the Ontario Bar Association, Citizenship and Immigration Law Section. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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#119 - Canada's Caregiver Programs 41:30

3M ago41:30

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Deanna and Steven discuss Canada's caregiver programs, including the Live-in Caregiver Program (1992 to 2014), the Caring for Children and Caring for People with High Medical Needs pilots (2014 to 2019), the Interim Pathway for Caregivers (4 March 4 to 8 July 2019), the Home Child Care Provider and Home Support Worker pilots (starting 18 June 2019 …

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#118 - Suing Immigration Consultants and Lawyers, with Eoin Logan 1:07:22

4M ago1:07:22

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Eoin Logan is a lawyer at Meridian Law Group. Fifty percent of his practice is suing immigration consultants and lawyers for professional negligence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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#117 - Open Work Permit for Vulnerable Workers and Access to Justice issues 1:24:22

4M ago1:24:22

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A discussion of the Open Work Permit for Vulnerable Workers program, a program which provides ppen work permit for vulnerable foreign workers who are victims of abuse. We also discuss access to justice issues. Jonathan Braun and Amanda Aziz are lawyers who work at the Migrant Workers Centre, an organization in Vancouver that promotes and advances a…

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History Episode 2 - Railway to Exclusion Part 1 - Chinese Migration to Canada - 1850-1885 3:00:00

4M ago3:00:00

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Part 1 of 2 in a historical deep dive of Chinese immigration to Canada. This episode covers the period of 1850 - 1885, and includes an overview of events in China at the time (including the Opium Wars and the Taiping Rebellion), Chinese migration during the British Columbia gold rush, the merger of the Colony of Vancouver Island and the Colony of B…

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#116 - Chinook, AI Triaging and ITAT, with Zeynab Ziaie Moayyed 43:10

4M ago43:10

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Zeynab Ziaie Moayyed is an immigration lawyer in Toronto. She can be found on X at @ZeynabZiaie We discuss Chinook, AI triage and IRCC's Integrity Trend Analysis Tool. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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#115 - The Walls Have Eyes, Artificial Intelligence in Border Surveillance, with Petra Molnar 1:01:42

4M ago1:01:42

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Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing in migration and human rights. We discuss her recent book, The Walls Have Eyes Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Topics include the use of technology at borders, surveillance, the role of the private sector, the border industrial complex, Palantir and other companies,…

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#114 - Are Immigration Policies Hurting Canada's Economy, with Mikal Skuterud 55:46

5M ago55:46

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Mikal Skuterud is a Professor at the University of Waterloo. We discuss the impact of immigration on housing prices, foreign workers, lumping Francophone migration objectives under economic immigration, international graduates facing barriers to immigrating and more. Mikal's previous appearance on Borderlines can be downloaded here. The former immi…

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#113 - Improving Judicial Review, with Cheryl Robinson 48:26

5M ago48:26

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Canada's Federal Court is conducting a review of its rules. We discuss some of the proposals, which include letting consultants do judicial review, an upcomming pilot project to simplify judicial reviews, whether filing fees should be increased, ways to reduce the number of judicial reviews, and more. Cheryl Robinson is an immigration lawyer in Ont…

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#112 - Sex Work, Only Fans and Canadian Immigration 1:04:29

5M ago1:04:29

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Frances Mahon is a criminal defense lawyer in Vancouver at Pender Litigation. Connie Campbell is an immigration lawyer at Edelmann & Co. We discuss the law of prostitution / sex worker in Canada in the criminal context, restrictions on foreign nationals finding employment in industries such as massage parlours and strip clubs and whether foreign na…

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#111 - Security Screening Delays and Chinese Espionage Allegations, with Lev Abramovich 1:02:26

5M ago1:02:26

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Lev Abramovich is a Canadian immigration lawyer in Toronto. We discuss ongoing security screening delays at IRCC, particularly for Chinese and Iranian nationals, mandamus applications, the expanded definition of espionage in Canadian immigration law, and how recently legislation to combat foreign interference in Canada may further hinder access to …

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#110 - A Former Visa Officer on Locally Engaged Staff and Reconsideration Requests, with Martin Levine 1:02:55

6M ago1:02:55

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Martin Levine was a Visa Officer and Analyst at Citizenship and Immigration Canada from 1978 - 2009. He then worked as a contract employee as an ATIP Analyst for numerous federal departments. He previously appeared on Episode #108. We discuss locally engaged staff, reconsideration requests, recording visa office interviews, IRCC office politics, vi…

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#109 - DUIs and Dangerous Driving, with Kyle Lee 51:48

6M ago51:48

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Kyla Lee is a criminal defense lawyer at Acumen Law and the host of the Driving Law podcast. In this episode Kyla answers dozens of questions about common driving offenses, including impaired driving and dangerous driving. Topics include how these offenses work, roadside prohibitions vs. criminal charges, defenses to impaired driving charges, distr…

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History Episode 1 - Banning Black People Because Canada is Cold, Order in Council PC 1911-1324 [Repost] 1:51:41

6M ago1:51:41

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This episode is a historical deep dive on Order in Council PC 1911-1324, an Order in Council from 1911 which stated that for a period of one year black people would not be permitted to immigrate in Canada because the Canadian government deemed them unsuitable to Canada's climate. I am re-uploading the episode to fix some audio issues and also to ad…

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#108 - A Former Visa Officer on The Culture at IRCC, AI, and Obstacles to Change, with Martin Levine 1:21:12

6M ago1:21:12

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Martin Levine was a Visa Officer and Analyst at Citizenship and Immigration Canada from 1978 - 2009. He then worked as a contract employee as an ATIP Analyst for numerous federal departments. This episode is like reading the results of an Access to Information Act on how IRCC works, and then asking questions of the person who wrote it. We discuss t…

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#107 - Trauma-Informed Lawyering, Part 2 with Dr. Deborrah Dunne (see also Episode #105) 1:09:33

6M ago1:09:33

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This is the second instalment (Part 1 is Episode #105 in this mini-series on Trauma-Informed Lawyering. In this segment, Deanna's own clinical counsellor, Dr. Deborrah Dunne discusses in more depth: a) vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue; b) the importance of self-care in running a trauma-informed practice; b) strategies for identifying trauma …

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#105 - "How-to" primer on Trauma-Informed Advocacy, with Dr. Sharalyn Jordan and Dr. Deborrah Dunne 1:23:13

6M ago1:23:13

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In this episode, we speak with Dr. Sharalyn Jordan (Associate Professor in Counselling Psychology and Equity Studies in Education at Simon Fraser University, and chair of the Rainbow Refugee society in Vancouver BC), and Dr. Deborrah Dunne, clinical counsellor. Our guests take us through a "Trauma 101" style overview of PTSD, C-PTSD and the neurobi…

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#106 - Customs Law, Border Seizures and Loss of NEXUS, with Samuel Hyman 1:07:21

6M ago1:07:21

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Samuel Hyman is a Vancouver lawyer with one of the more well known practices in Canadian customs law. We dive into Canadian customs law for individuals, examining the procedures and rights that Canadians have at the border around the seizure of goods, the imposition of administrative monetary penalties and loss of NEXUS. We discuss the consequences…

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[Repost] #62 - Tips from a Former CBSA Inland Enforcement Officer, with Carl Brault 1:30:03

7M ago1:30:03

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This episode originally ran on October 5, 2021. Carl Brault worked for almost twenty years at the Canada Border Services Agency. His roles included Border Services Officer, Intelligence Analyst and Inland Enforcement Officer. He currently provides consultation services to authorized immigration representatives and can be reached at cb-advisingservi…

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#104 - Privacy Law Issues 101 and Impacts On Canadian Immigration, with Gerald Chan 1:00:13

7M ago1:00:13

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In this episode, we are joined by Gerald Chan, a privacy and criminal defense lawyer from Stockwood's LLP. We discuss several significant cases and topics within the realm of privacy law and its intersection with Canadian immigration law. Gerald's paper on text message privacy can be found here. Specific cases include: R. v. Bykovets, 2024 SCC 6 (w…

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#103 - Inadmissibility for Organized Crime and Screening Lawyers for Islamophobia, with A. Connie Campbell 1:01:20

7M ago1:01:20

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A. Connie Campbell is a lawyer at Edelmann & Co. We discuss inadmissibility for organized crime and answer a question about whether we think that law societies should screen lawyers for Islamophobia or anti-Palestinian sentiments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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#102 - What Being a Visa Officer Was Like, with Corey Clamp 50:06

7M ago50:06

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Corey Clamp worked at Citizenship and Immigration Canada from 2003-2008. His roles included working as a Litigation Management Analyst in Ottawa, several supervisory roles at the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi and as a Senior Immigration Officer at the Canadian visa office in Ho Chi Minh City. We discuss Corey's immigration career, the impor…

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#101 - Cancelling Mexican eTAs, Pepa and Anti-Semitism 45:05

7M ago45:05

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Deanna and Steven discuss the partial visa reimposition on Mexican nationals, the cancellation of Mexican eTAs, IRCC procedures for cancelling visas in general and the Supreme Court granting leave in Pepa. We also answer a listener question, which is whether Canadian visa officials should screen prospective immigrants for antisemitism. Hosted on Ac…

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[Repost] #35 - The Implications of the Supreme Court of Canada Decision in Vavilov 53:19

8M ago53:19

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This episode is a repost of episode 35, which has been our most listened to podcast episode to date. It was recorded on 27 January 2020. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v. Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65 was a landmark 2019 Supreme Court of Canada decision in which the Supreme Court of Canada outlined a new framework for the standard of revie…

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#100 - What Being a Judge is Like, with Peter Edelmann 1:18:31

8M ago1:18:31

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Peter Edelmann was a founder of the Borderlines podcast and immigration lawyer who was appointed to the British Columbia Supreme Court in December, 2019. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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#99 - When will Express Entry Points Decrease, with Amandeep Hayer 53:57

8M ago53:57

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Amandeep Hayer is the founder of Hayer Law, a Vancouver immigration law firm. The Express Entry points requirement is currently higher than it has ever been. In this episode we discuss when they are likely to decrease. We also discuss a recent Ontario court decision which struck down Canada's two generation limit on citizenship by descent. Finally,…

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#98 - The Ban on Islamic Adoptions, with Warda Shazadi Meighen 49:17

8M ago49:17

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Warda Shazadi Meighen is an immigration lawyer in Toronto and the founder of Landings Law. Canadian immigration legislation states that adoptions that can lead to immigration must create a legal parent-child relationship and sever the pre-existing legal parent-child relationship.Many Islamic countries have adoption, or guardianship, regimes based o…

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#97 - Statelesness, with Jamie Chai Yun Liew 52:58

9M ago52:58

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Jamie Chai Yun Liew is a Professor at the University of Ottawa and the author of Ghost Citizens - Decolonial Apparitions of Stateless, Foreign and Wayward Figures in Law. In this episode we discuss statelessness, which is when someone does not have citizenship in any country because of the operation of law. We discuss how people can become stateles…

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#96 - Inadmissibility for Espionage and Chinese Immigration, with Will Tao 56:28

9M ago56:28

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Will Tao is a Canadian immigration and the founder of Heron Law Office. In January 2024 Justice Crampton, the Chief Justice of the Federal Court released a decision where he ruled that what constitutes “espionage” in Canadian immigration law must evolve “as hostile state actors increasingly make use of non-traditional methods to obtain sensitive in…

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#95 - Defamation Law and SLAPP Proceedings, with Douglas Judson 46:23

9M ago46:23

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Douglas Judson is a lawyer in Ontario who practices in litigation. He can be found on Twitter @dwjudson In this episode, we are taking a break from immigration and discussing defamation law, which is the law around communications about a person that tends to hurt their reputation. We are focusing on one of the defenses to defamation lawsuits, which…

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#94 - The Gaza Visitor Visa Program, with Pantea Jafari 1:30:05

9M ago1:30:05

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Pantea Jafari is lead counsel at Jafari Law, which she opened in 2012. In this episode, we discuss IRCC's response to the crisis in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Details of the program that is the subject of our discussion can be found on IRCC's website at canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/israel-west-bank-gaza-2023/canada-tr…

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#93 - Business Immigration, with Robin Seligman 53:33

10M ago53:33

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Robin Seligman is the founder of Seligman Law, an immigration law firm in Toronto. In this episode we discuss Canada's business immigration programs, including a history of the Immigrant Investor Program and Entrepreneur Program, the current Start-Up Visa Program, and difficulties that entrepreneurs face in coming to Canada to start businesses. Hos…

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#92 - The Deportation of Permanent Residents for Serious Criminality 57:27

10M ago57:27

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Michael Greene, K.C. is an immigration lawyer in Calgary. He served as the National Chair of the Canadian Bar Association’s Citizenship & Immigration Section in 2000-2001. He is representing Jaskirat Singh Sidhu in his immigration and deportation matters. We discuss the Federal Court decision in Sidhu v. Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Prepared…

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[Repost] #56 - Responding to Deportation Letters, with Michael Greene 1:03:18

10M ago1:03:18

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This episode is a repost of episode 56. We discuss issues involving the deportation of long term permanent residents for criminality.5:45 - What are the grounds for deporting a permanent resident for criminality?13:00 - How does the appeal process work?17:00 - What are the factors in deportation.19:00 - An overview of the history of the law involvi…

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#91 -Recapping 2023 and Predictions for 2024 in Canadian Immigration Law, with Tamara Mosher Kuczer 1:15:41

11M ago1:15:41

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Tamara Mosher Kuczer is the Founder & Principal Lawyer of Lighthouse Immigration Law Professional Corporation. She can be found on Twitter @ttrrmk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.De către Steven Meurrens and Deanna Okun-Achoff

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#90 - Compassion Fatigue and Burnout while Practicing Immigration and Refugee Law 1:03:33

11M ago1:03:33

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Deanna Okun-Nachoff, Erica Olmstead, Erin Roth, Kamaljit Kaur Lehal and Laura Best discuss compassion fatigue in the practice of refugee law and how they avoid burnout. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.De către Steven Meurrens and Deanna Okun-Achoff

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#89 - The Implications of the Supreme Court decision in Mason v. Canada (PSEP) 1:08:04

1y ago1:08:04

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Mason v. Canada was a Supreme Court of Canada decision which assessed whether inadmissibility on security grounds for engaging in violence required a nexus to national security. The Supreme Court of Canada's decision clarified the interpretation of "inadmissibility on security grounds" under section 34(1)(e) of the Immigration and Refugee Protectio…

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