Federal Court of Appeal overturns Safe Third Country ruling April 16, 2021
For the foreseeable future, asylum seekers at official Canada-U.S. border crossings will be turned back to try their luck in the U.S.
On April 15 the Federal Court of Appeal overturned a lower court ruling that declared the Safe Third Country Agreement with the United States unconstitutional.
The appeal court faulted the lower court’s ruling that safeguards against arbitrary and hasty decisions by Canada Border Services agents were not practically available and that the U.S. inland refugee determination system was dysfunctional and failed to meet the minimum standards of the United Nations Convention on Refugees.
CELPIP said the technical difficulties were due to an “unprecedented volume of demand for test registrations.”
Due to the unprecedented volume of demand for test registrations, our online registration system and website are currently experiencing technical difficulties. Please note that test registrations are NOT available at our office or test centres. See below for more information pic.twitter.com/3RmtqZYVHa
IELTS wrote on the CanadaVisa Forum that their technical difficulties were also a result of a large volume of people trying to book a language test. They said users can check their webpage periodically to see if it is up and running again.
Canada aims to grant permanent residency to 90,000 foreign students, workers
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Photo: AFP
Canada plans to grant permanent residency to over 90,000 foreign students and workers who helped treat coronavirus patients during the pandemic.
The 90,000 intakes under the new programme will account for almost a quarter of this year’s overall immigration goal.
The initiative is planned to come into effect from May 6.
Canada plans to grant permanent residency to over 90,000 foreign students and workers who helped treat patients during the coronavirus pandemic, the immigration minister announced Wednesday.
Canadian Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino said the measure should help Canada reach its target of welcoming more than 400,000 immigrants this year, compensating for a drop in immigration last year when the border was closed, read a news report published in
iPolitics By Kelsey Johnson. Published on Apr 15, 2021 12:55pm (Unsplashed.com photo)
Good day and welcome to the Sprout, where it’s National Takeout Day so please, support your local restaurants today. They need all the support we can give them during these tough times. For the foodies among us, it’s also National Glazed Spiral Ham day, which seems a bit over the top for this Thursday in April.
Here’s today’s agriculture news.
The Lead
We start with an immigration update. The federal government says it plans to introduce a new pathway to permanent residency for foreign nationals working essential jobs here in Canada, including general farm workers, nursery and greenhouse workers.
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Canada will formally apologize to the country’s Italian-Canadian community for the way it was treated during the Second World War when some 31,000 Italian-Canadians were declared enemy aliens and 600 Italian-Canadian men were sent to internment camps.
“I’m proud to stand up and say that our government will right these wrongs with a formal apology in the month of May,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the House of Commons yesterday in reply to a question from Liberal MP Angelo Iacono, while noting that Canadians of Italian heritage “deal with ongoing discrimination related to mistakes made by our governments of the past that that continue to this day.”