Immigration
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March 12, 2024
More jails? | Norman Douglas
There are more than 60 retired Ontario Court judges on our private chat line. Most of us are wiser than when we were appointed. We have over a thousand years of hands-on experience in crime and punishment.
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March 11, 2024
Federal ombud aims to drive ‘urgent reforms’ to justice system’s treatment of sex assault survivors
Asserting that the criminal justice system has “normalized” its infliction of pain on sexual assault survivors, the federal ombudsperson for crime victims says his office’s new systemic investigation of their experiences aims to make recommendations “to integrate a trauma-informed and victim-centred approach in the criminal justice system.”
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March 11, 2024
Federal Foreign Interference Commission to hold public hearings in Ottawa in March, April
The federal Foreign Interference Commission, led by Quebec Court of Appeal Justice Marie-Josée Hogue, will begin the first stage of its public hearings March 27 in Ottawa, with the public hearings expected to run until April 10.
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March 08, 2024
Canada announces new sanctions targeting two Iranian officials
Canada is imposing new sanctions against two Iranian officials over their roles in the violent repression of Iranian women and girls.
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March 08, 2024
National Uprising Day: Courage, resilience, continued struggle for Tibet | Karma T. Youngdue
On March 10, Tibetans worldwide solemnly observe the Tibetan National Uprising Day, which marks a pivotal moment in Tibetan history. This year, the commemoration marks the 65th anniversary of the uprising. On March 10, 1959, thousands of Tibetans in Lhasa staged a courageous uprising against Chinese occupation of Tibet, protesting the erosion of their cultural identity and oppressive policies. The Chinese response was swift and brutal, resulting in the loss of many Tibetan lives and forcing His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama into exile in India.
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March 07, 2024
Ottawa to launch new rural and Francophone-minority community immigration pilot programs in fall
The federal government says it will launch next “fall” two separate immigration pilot programs, in support of rural communities and Francophone-minority communities.
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March 07, 2024
Modernizing national security laws could also clarify threshold to invoke Emergencies Act: LeBlanc
Ottawa is considering reforming the threshold for invoking the federal Emergencies Act, as part of a broader “more holistic review of national security legislation,” with the Liberal government committed to introducing amendments to “modernize” the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) Act, the Security of Information Act, and the Criminal Code “in the coming months,” says Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc.
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March 07, 2024
The many reasons for regularizing status of undocumented workers | Lorne Waldman
In his December 2021 Mandate letter, Prime Minister Trudeau wrote to the then minister of Citizenship and Immigration and instructed him to “build on existing pilot programs to further explore ways of regularizing status for undocumented workers who are contributing to Canadian communities.” The PM’s reference to “existing pilot projects” was a recognition of the very successful program whereby undocumented construction workers in Toronto and the GTA can regularize their status.
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March 06, 2024
Controversy erupts after Quebec Appeal Court grants asylum seekers access to subsidized daycare
Asylum seekers in Quebec, after waging a long legal battle, can now have access to subsidized daycare after the Quebec Court of Appeal found that a provincial policy was discriminatory in a decision hailed by legal experts but mired in political controversy.
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March 05, 2024
Federal lawyers ratify new collective agreement gains that achieve ‘comparable’ pay to Ontario Crowns
Members of the union representing more than 3,300 federal government lawyers and Crowns voted overwhelmingly to ratify a “hard won” new collective agreement, featuring pay increases of 12.5 per cent (13.14 per cent compounded) over four years — and making the pay rates for federal Crowns “comparable” to those of their Ontario counterparts, who are the highest paid public-sector lawyers in Canada, says the Association of Justice Counsel (AJC).