I recently joined Steven Meurrens, Deanna Okun-Nachoff, and Hannah Lindy on the Borderlines podcast (June 13, 2025) to discuss the Humanitarian and Compassionate (H&C) application under section 25(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA). This discretionary remedy remains a cornerstone of Canada’s immigration framework, offering a lifeline to individuals who face barriers to
Steven Meurrens: All right. It is June 13th, 2025. We are here today with an all-star panel of H&C experts, Raj Sharma, who was supposed to be on a few weeks ago. We had the episode titled, but then he couldn’t make it, and I learned what happens when an episode airs with the title
Mastering Detention Review Hearings: Insights from the CBA National Immigration Conference The Canadian Bar Association’s National Immigration Conference was held this year (June 6-7) in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia. The first such conference I attended was about 20 years ago, and like every year, the immigration bar comes out in force to gather, network, renew