The Government of Canada announced travel restrictions in March of this year. These restrictions remain in place except for a new update published…
Ronald PoultonJune 15, 2020
Hold on to your hats, or your hair, at least. The Supreme Court of Canada has established, once and for…
Ronald PoultonMarch 6, 2020
When is a divorce valid under Islamic or Sharia law? This is a perplexing question when confronting its validity under…
Ronald PoultonJanuary 12, 2020
The “Lonely Canadian” class is a euphemism for a class of sponsors who, under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act,…
Ronald PoultonJanuary 12, 2020
Justice must be both done and seen to be done. In a recent Refugee Appeal Division (RAD) decision, the decision-maker…
Talia JoundiDecember 31, 2019
Those arriving to Canada via the U.S. should have equal rights to refugee status, says immigration lawyer Ron Poulton …
Ronald PoultonOctober 21, 2019
A wine by any other name… other than; product of Israel. I can think of no better way to…
Ronald PoultonSeptember 29, 2019
Increasingly, the Federal Court is correcting immigration officers for failing to review s. 25 humanitarian factors through the Kanthasamy framework–…
Ronald PoultonJanuary 17, 2019
Some 29 years ago, Than Soe boarded a Burmese airplane with laundry boxes and fake bombs and told the pilot…
Ronald PoultonDecember 1, 2018