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September 14, 2026
Like the air we breathe, citizenship is normally taken for granted — until it’s stripped away. I know this intimately. At age 6, Canada revoked my citizenship, despite my birth on Canadian soil to two Canadian-citizen parents. It took 47 years to reclaim my birthright, and when I finally did, it was as an immigrant. The United States — a country to which I never pledged allegiance — granted me citizenship. My own country denied me any say in my destiny.
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September 11, 2026
Ruling 9-0 in favour of the Ontario Crown’s position, the Supreme Court of Canada has declined to impose a presumptive time cap on post-conviction sentencing delays or to make a stay of proceedings the mandatory Charter remedy for unreasonable post-verdict sentencing delay that breaches an offender’s s. 11(b) Charter right to trial within a reasonable time.
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September 11, 2026
RBC’s new report, “A Smarter Immigration Strategy: Five Questions That Could Help Shape Canada’s Future,” arrives at an opportune moment. Published Sept. 1, it draws on consultations with more than 60 economists, demographers, policymakers and other experts.
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September 09, 2026
Canada is still adding names to the Special Economic Measures (Iran) Regulations. Amendments registered on Feb. 13, March 25 and Aug. 13, 2026, put further individuals and entities on Schedule 1. Global Affairs Canada continues to state the immigration consequence in one sentence: listed individuals are inadmissible under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA).
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September 08, 2026
Ottawa has agreed that the federal judiciary reasonably incurred more than $1 million in legal fees and disbursements to participate in the independent quadrennial process that is meant to depoliticize determinations of federal judicial remuneration and avoid pay disputes.
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September 03, 2026
Technology has transformed the practice of immigration law and continues to do so. Practitioners from the past few decades will remember collecting forms from the office of United States Immigration and Naturalization Service and typing information on a typewriter. Some forms were required in multiple copies, with sheets of carbon in between. Many forms were required to be filed on specific colours of paper, including blue, yellow, green and pumpkin. If we did not want to mail in the forms, we could walk into the government office, pay the fee and file the forms in person.
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September 01, 2026
Entrepreneur immigration files often contain two narratives. One is commercial: the business plan explains what the applicant intends to establish, acquire or operate. The other is financial: bank statements, tax records, corporate documents and transaction histories explain where the applicant’s capital came from and what funds are actually available. Problems arise when those narratives are reviewed separately and do not reconcile.
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August 28, 2026
Canada’s productivity debate usually focuses on taxes, capital and permits, but care availability is also an economic variable. According to Statistics Canada, in 2024, 59.5 per cent of Canadian child care centres were operating at maximum capacity, 77.3 per cent had active waitlists and 86.4 per cent reported difficulty filling vacant positions.
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August 27, 2026
The inability to afford a lawyer remains the biggest barrier to legal services in Manitoba, but obstacles also arise when various bodies operate in silos rather than coming together to serve the “whole person,” an official says following the release of a survey on access to justice in the province. Earlier this month, the Law Society of Manitoba (LSM) released its “What We Heard from Community Report” as part of its ongoing Access to Justice (A2J) Initiative.
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August 27, 2026
As AI-generated court filings by self-represented litigants proliferate, appellate counsel should read trial transcripts that are ostensibly “certified” more closely than ever and do so earlier in the appeal process as they might be AI-created fakes, advises a senior family law practitioner.
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August 26, 2026
Canada should establish a transparent, evidence-based framework under which immigration applications connected to jurisdictions presenting demonstrable verification, fraud or security challenges receive enhanced scrutiny and, subject to narrow exceptions, a mandatory in-person visa interview.
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August 24, 2026
A $28,000 lump sum salary boost recommended for Canada’s 1,200 judges last year would have cost Ottawa almost $321 million over six years had the government not rejected the advice from an independent judicial pay commission, the Carney government asserts in defending a novel lawsuit launched by the Canadian Superior Courts Judges Association (CSCJA) and the Association of Federal Court Associate Judges.
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August 24, 2026
Many employers and professionals assume that the L-1B classification is only for employees who have extremely rare or unique knowledge that very few people in their company possess.
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August 21, 2026
The Federal Court of Appeal has clarified that immigration adjudicators must treat the principle of non-refoulement as an interpretive constraint during inadmissibility proceedings, rather than considering it only at the removal stage.
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August 20, 2026
The Federal Court says it is facing a significant number of constitutional challenges to new restrictions on asylum claims that were enacted March 26, 2026 by Bill C-12, the Strengthening Canada’s Immigration System and Borders Act. As a result, Federal Court Chief Justice Alan Diner, who last month succeeded Paul Crampton as the leader of the national trial court, issued a “practice direction and special order” on Aug. 20.
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August 20, 2026
The Federal Court has upheld a work permit refusal, finding that the immigration officer reasonably concluded that the applicant had not shown he could adequately perform the role of chief executive officer for his proposed business.
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August 20, 2026
Prince Edward Island is seeking input from residents on proposed regulations that would allow for greater scrutiny of employers who use temporary foreign workers — and penalties for those who break the rules.
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August 19, 2026
The growing burdens that generative AI misuse in court is imposing on lawyers, litigants and courts are illustrated by a recent Nova Scotia Court of Appeal judgment that threw out a self-represented litigant’s appeal following his use of uncertified AI-generated trial transcripts containing multiple inaccuracies that opposing counsel identified through vigilant verification.
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August 18, 2026
Quebec’s top court has ordered a self-represented family law appellant to pay $1,000 to his ex-wife plus her legal costs on the appeal, following his “deliberate” citation in court of ChatGPT-generated fake case law, including fictitious quotations.
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August 17, 2026
The Federal Court has declined to stay the removal of a former senior Iranian government official “because Canada’s interest in removing persons who participated in regimes that systematically violate human rights outweighs any harm that might befall him upon returning to Iran.”
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August 17, 2026
Mathews Dinsdale has added Madison Kelly as an associate in its Toronto office.
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August 13, 2026
Ontario social assistance programs rules have now changed to ensure that “only people who are living in Canada legally” can receive financial assistance from Ontario Works or the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), the province announced.
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August 13, 2026
A foreign national from India being held in immigration detention due to allegations of murder in his homeland and suspected ties to a terrorist group is considering a claim of habeas corpus in his ongoing fight for release.
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August 12, 2026
Quebec Court of Appeal Justice Geneviève Cotnam, who once recalled “my career as a lawyer didn’t always provide a smooth sailing to the bench,” is Quebec's new top judge, succeeding Quebec Court of Appeal Chief Justice Manon Savard who became a part-time (supernumerary) judge on Aug. 10.
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August 12, 2026
The Ontario government has announced a $32.5 million investment in tools aimed at helping police fight illicit drugs, guns and cross-border crime.