All Episodes

#235 - IRGC Conscripts Face Deportation. A Conservative MP Has a Solution

#234 - Changes Are Coming to Canadian Immigration, with Kubeir Kamal

#233 - China, Espionage and Canadian Immigration Law: How Far Is Too Far?, with Joanna Chiu

#232 - Firing Foreign Workers: Immigration Status, Severance & Employment Law

#231 - Trump, the Canada–U.S. Border and the Future of U.S. Immigration, with Andrew Hayes

#230 - Becoming a Francophone, with Alyanna Chua

#229 - What Counts as Unauthorized Work in Canada? Plus Free Trade Work Permits

#228 - How Express Entry Went Off the Rails, with Steven Paolasini

#227 - LMIA Exemption Code C-20, “Papers Please” and IRGC Conscripts

#226 - Can Parliament Block Judicial Review? With Paul Daly and Sujit Choudhry

#225 - How "sustainable" is IRCC's lauded "return to sustainable immigration levels"?

#224 - Stealth Rule Changes: PGWPs, Iranian Work Permits & Fairness

#223 - Climate Refugees and The Welcome Table

#222 - LMIA Wage Thresholds Rise

#221 - IRCC Surrendering Citizenship Certificates

#220 - Inside IRCC: Answers to Representatives’ Emails #2

#219 - Should I Stay or Should I Go? Temporary Residents Face Tough Choices

#218 - Supreme Court Recognizes Intimate Partner Violence Tort

#217 - Duress and Criminal Inadmissibility: A Major Federal Court of Appeal Decision

#216 - Inside IRCC: Answers to Representatives’ Emails #1

#215 - The 2025 CSIS Report: Security Screening, Impact of Mandamus on CSIS, and Backlogs

#214 - Auditor General Report Exposes Major Issues in Canada’s International Student Program

#213 - Race, Detention, and Transparency in Canada's Immigration System

#212 - IRCC's Express Entry Changes and Consultations

#211 - Security Screening for Transnational Repression, with Retired CSIS Analyst Phil Gurski

#210 - Would You Pass the Citizenship Test?

#209 - Huge Mandamus Decision by the Federal Court of Appeal

#208 - Proving Canadian Ancestry, with Amandeep Hayer and Lisa Middlemiss

#207 - Mobility Rights Under the Charter

#206 - The Importance of the Canadian Senate, with Senator Paula Simons

#205 - Former CBSA Chief On Immigration Investigations & Removal Priorities

#204 - Stop Bill C-12! With Sharry Aiken

#203 - New Express Entry Manager Category (2026): Who Actually Qualifies — and Who Doesn’t

#201 - IRCC’s Security Screening Delays: Causes, Timelines, and Legal Impacts

#202 - The Emergencies Act and the Freedom Convoy

#200 - Building a Corporate Immigration Law Practice

#199 - Is Canada’s Population Decline Good for the Economy?

#198 - How Decisions Get Written, with Justice Peter Edelmann

#197 - New World Order

#196 - Canada’s Healthcare Crisis & Immigration, with Dr. Brian Day

#195 - 2026 Predictions for Canadian Immigration Law

#194 - Are You Now a Canadian

#193 - Evacuate

#192 - Preventing Study Permit Refusals

#191 - Suing Immigration Representatives

#190 - Express Entry Refusals

#189 - The 2026–2028 Levels Plan: Behind the Numbers

#188 - Retired CSIS Analyst Phil Gurski on Immigration Security Screening

#187 - IRCC is Watching

#186 - Retired IRCC Program Manager, Greg Chubak

#185 - Lorne Waldman: Landmark Cases to Today's Immigration Crisis

#184 - Retired CBSA Chief of Enforcement & Intelligence Operations, Christian Lane

#183 - Failing Afghanistan's Heroes

#182 - Here to Stay

#181 - Fifty Year Processing Time

#180 - Collapsing Numbers

#179 - Abolish the Foreign Worker Program?

#178 - Constitutional Protections in the Canadian Immigration field

#177 - Agents, Fees, and Broken Promises

#176 - Canadian Immigration in 2027

#175 - August Crimmigration Updates

#174 - Bill C-2, Carney's Big Beautiful Border Bill

#173 - Bill C-3 - Expanding Canadian Citizenship by Descent

[Repost] #43 - An Interview with John McCallum, Canada's Immigration Minister from 2015-2017

#172 - Fast vs. Slow: Immigration's Impact on Canada's Economy & Regions, with Daniel Hiebert

#171 - Express Entry AMA with Kubeir Kamal and Tamara Mosher-Kuczer

#170 - Getting Divorced in Canada, with Ari Wormelli

#169 - H&C Applications, with Raj Sharma and Hannah Lindy

#168 - Judicial Review AMA

#167 - A Life in Immigration Law: Gordon Maynard on Collegiality, Discretion, and Staying Human

#166 - The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

#165 - Is Canada soft on crime? with Kyla Lee

#164 - Inadmissibility for Human Rights Violations

#163 - Mini Flash Update on Work Permit Issues

#162 - Canada's Aging Population, Demographics and Immigration, with Daniel Hiebert

#161 - Mark Carney Wins = 100,000,000 Canadians?, with Mark Holthe

#160 - Landlord Tenant Law, with Benjamin Meadow

#159 - Carney vs. Poilievre on Immigration, with Chantal Desloge

#158 - Terrorism, Talukder and the Bangladesh National Party, with Connie Campbell

#157 - Leaving Immigration Law, with Randall Cohn

#156 - Arguing Incompetence of Counsel, with Arshdeep Kahlon

#155 - A Plan to Attract Talent to Canada, with Martin Basiri

#154 - Expanding The Presumption of Innocence to Immigration Law

#153: The Big Reveal: Home Care Worker Immigration Pilot Programs

#152 - Revoking Elon Musk's Canadian Citizenship, with Amandeep Hayer

#151 - Mark Carney, The Liberal Leadership Race, and Canadian Immigration, with Chantal Desloges

#150 - Capping Immigration Applications from India

#149 - Incomplete Applications

#148 - The Vietnamese Boat People, with Misty Ty and Mymy Huynh

#147 - A Debate on Banning Immigration Consultants, with Former Visa Officer Martin Levine

#146 - Employment Law for Immigrants and Foreign Workers, with Erin Brandt

#145 - Minister Miller Blackmails the Provinces on Immigration Levels, plus IRCC Refusals of Provincial Nominees

#144 - Restricting Open Spousal Work Permits

#143 - The Economics of Deporting 1,000,000 Temporary Residents, with Christopher Worswick

#142 - Options for International Students Narrowing in 2025, Asylum Claims Increasing, with Lisa Brunner

#141 - A New Problem with Visitor Records and Leaving Canada

#140 - 2024 Year in Review and Predictions for 2025

#139 - Practice Tips and Resolutions for 2025

#138 - Trumpugees Moving to Canada, with Ryan Rosenberg

#137 - Gifts from Amin, Ugandan Asian Refugee Resettlement to Canada, with Shezan Muhammedi