The Ongoing And Negative Changes In Accident Benefits For Ontario’s Injured Citizens

This latest piece highlights the ongoing and negative changes in benefits for Ontario’s injured citizens:  Dramatic changes to health-care services for injured workers, including a 40 per cent funding drop in rehabilitative treatment and a 30 per cent drop in drug benefit spending, is having a “devastating” impact on some of the province’s most vulnerable citizens, […]

Visitor Visas Denied: Three Case Studies

Jim Metcalfe – Director of Immigration: In the past four weeks we’ve been contacted by several people who have had problems obtaining visitor visas. One of the calls involved an individual who applied for the latest innovation of Canadian immigration: the electronic Travel Authority (eTA).

Spousal Sponsorship Plan Looks Good, But More Details Required

Jim Metcalfe – Director of Immigration: The Canadian government has announced a plan to reduce the backlog of existing sponsor applications and speed up processing times for spousal sponsorship and family sponsorship cases. They have also said that they will increase the number of sponsored persons allowed into Canada:

Brain Injuries: The Invisible Epidemic

When it comes to this invisible injury, it turns out there are still a lot people who don’t realize the impact: 160,000 of us Canadians sustain one of these serious injuries every year. To put that into perspective, that’s about one Canadian every three minutes, so by the time you’ve finished reading this post another […]

Is The Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program Flawed?

Jim Metcalfe – Director of Immigration: I recently came across an interesting Federal Court decision that involves the Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program (Naeem Ullah, docket number 2016 FC 607). The case involved appellant Naeem Ullah, who successfully challenged the decision of a visa officer who refused his application for permanent residence in Canada.

Canada Will Scrap The Mexican Visa Requirement

Jim Metcalfe – Director of Immigration: One important announcement that came out of the “Three Amigos” summit between the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the US is that Canada will scrap the Mexican visa requirement. As of December 1, 2016, visitors from Mexico will no longer need a visa before coming to Canada.