The Unconstitutional: The Safe Third Country Agreement
Meet Michael Bossin, one of the co-counsel for the Applicants in the Canadian Council for Refugees v Canada decision, where the Federal Court of Appeal found the Safe Third Country Agreement unconstit...
30 Sep 202052min
The Global Organization: Introducing the UNHCR
Meet Rema Jamous Imseis, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' Representative to Canada. In this episode, Rema provides an introduction to the work of the UNHCR and what UNHCR does in Ca...
30 Sep 202034min
The Pandemic: Keeping up with Immigration Law in Extraordinary Times
Meet Betsy Kane, an immigration lawyer who is a certified specialist in Canadian citizenship and immigration law. In our conversation together we talk about the challenges of practising immigration la...
18 Sep 202040min
The Architect: Creating the Refugee Resettlement Program
Meet Michael Molloy, former Ambassador of Canada to Jordan and a former public servant with the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Immigration. Mike oversaw the resettlement of Indoch...
10 Sep 20201h 3min
The Alternative Remedy: Humanitarian and Compassionate Grounds Applications
Meet Will Tao and Lou Janssen Dangzalan, two immigration lawyers in Canada. In our conversation we talk about the Humanitarian and Compassionate (H&C) Grounds application in the immigration regime, ho...
10 Sep 202046min
Ebrahim's Imprisonment
Meet Ebrahim, a Black, stateless person who was in a Canadian prison for six and a half years even though he has never been convicted of a crime in Canada. In this episode we talk about why Ebrahim ca...
10 Sep 20201h 7min
Montana's Borders
Meet Montana Adams, a talented Indigenous playwright from Akwesasne. In this episode we talk about her play, "My Good Friend Jay", how she interrogates the colonial borders that cut through her commun...
10 Sep 202026min
The Economic Class: Selecting Skilled Workers for Canada
Jacqueline Bonisteel is an immigration lawyer in Ottawa and an expert in the economic class in the immigration system. She gives us a primer on the various permanent resident programs currently in pla...
21 Aug 202058min
