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The Grind Podcast is a show for entrepreneurs around the world. We want to shine a light on the ups and downs, when it comes to running your own business. We also touch on culture issues, and how they affect your ability to be a successful entrepreneur.
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Borderlines

Steven Meurrens and Deanna Okun-Nachoff

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A podcast for the discussion of Canadian immigration law and policy, although we often delve into other topics. Each episode features 2-3 lawyers, academics, politicians, and stakeholders discussing current migration issues. Hosted by Steven Meurrens and Deanna Okun-Nachoff, two immigration lawyers in Vancouver, British Columbia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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webSYNradio

Dominique Balaÿ and the artists - http://synradio.fr/ - contact@websynradio.fr

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websynradio : a radio program hosted by Dominique Balaÿ. WebSYNradio is an independent radio program whose broadcast is streamed 24/7. WebSYNradio brings together propositions from artists or intellectuals that are for the most part well-established on the international scene.http://synradio.fr/ Parmi les artistes participants : 0 (Joël Merah, Stéphane Garin, Sylvain Chauveau), Adam Nankervis, Alan Dunn, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Amanda Belantara, Anna O et Alain Descarmes, Anna Raimondo, Anne ...
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Lev Abramovich is a Canadian immigration lawyer in Toronto. We discuss ongoing security screening delays at IRCC, particularly for Chinese and Iranian nationals, mandamus applications, the expanded definition of espionage in Canadian immigration law, and how recently legislation to combat foreign interference in Canada may further hinder access to …
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Martin Levine was a Visa Officer and Analyst at Citizenship and Immigration Canada from 1978 - 2009. He then worked as a contract employee as an ATIP Analyst for numerous federal departments. He previously appeared on Episode #108. We discuss locally engaged staff, reconsideration requests, recording visa office interviews, IRCC office politics, vi…
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Kyla Lee is a criminal defense lawyer at Acumen Law and the host of the Driving Law podcast. In this episode Kyla answers dozens of questions about common driving offenses, including impaired driving and dangerous driving. Topics include how these offenses work, roadside prohibitions vs. criminal charges, defenses to impaired driving charges, distr…
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This episode is a historical deep dive on Order in Council PC 1911-1324, an Order in Council from 1911 which stated that for a period of one year black people would not be permitted to immigrate in Canada because the Canadian government deemed them unsuitable to Canada's climate. I am re-uploading the episode to fix some audio issues and also to ad…
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Martin Levine was a Visa Officer and Analyst at Citizenship and Immigration Canada from 1978 - 2009. He then worked as a contract employee as an ATIP Analyst for numerous federal departments. This episode is like reading the results of an Access to Information Act on how IRCC works, and then asking questions of the person who wrote it. We discuss t…
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This is the second instalment (Part 1 is Episode #105 in this mini-series on Trauma-Informed Lawyering. In this segment, Deanna's own clinical counsellor, Dr. Deborrah Dunne discusses in more depth: a) vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue; b) the importance of self-care in running a trauma-informed practice; b) strategies for identifying trauma …
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In this episode, we speak with Dr. Sharalyn Jordan (Associate Professor in Counselling Psychology and Equity Studies in Education at Simon Fraser University, and chair of the Rainbow Refugee society in Vancouver BC), and Dr. Deborrah Dunne, clinical counsellor. Our guests take us through a "Trauma 101" style overview of PTSD, C-PTSD and the neurobi…
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Samuel Hyman is a Vancouver lawyer with one of the more well known practices in Canadian customs law. We dive into Canadian customs law for individuals, examining the procedures and rights that Canadians have at the border around the seizure of goods, the imposition of administrative monetary penalties and loss of NEXUS. We discuss the consequences…
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This episode originally ran on October 5, 2021. Carl Brault worked for almost twenty years at the Canada Border Services Agency. His roles included Border Services Officer, Intelligence Analyst and Inland Enforcement Officer. He currently provides consultation services to authorized immigration representatives and can be reached at cb-advisingservi…
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Podcast de Carl Stone pour websynradio : Aux alentours du Kamya bar, Carl Stone convoque pour ce programme original webSYNradio tout un ensemble d'oeuvres (Ros Bobos, Annie Gosflield, David Toop, Tanner Menard, Joseph Hammer, Ben Neill, Roger Kleier, Saunter Chihei Hatakeyama, Yann Novak, Robert Crouch, Chas Smith, Sawako, Richard Lainhart, et des …
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In this episode, we are joined by Gerald Chan, a privacy and criminal defense lawyer from Stockwood's LLP. We discuss several significant cases and topics within the realm of privacy law and its intersection with Canadian immigration law. Gerald's paper on text message privacy can be found here. Specific cases include: R. v. Bykovets, 2024 SCC 6 (w…
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A. Connie Campbell is a lawyer at Edelmann & Co. We discuss inadmissibility for organized crime and answer a question about whether we think that law societies should screen lawyers for Islamophobia or anti-Palestinian sentiments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Corey Clamp worked at Citizenship and Immigration Canada from 2003-2008. His roles included working as a Litigation Management Analyst in Ottawa, several supervisory roles at the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi and as a Senior Immigration Officer at the Canadian visa office in Ho Chi Minh City. We discuss Corey's immigration career, the impor…
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Podcast de DAVID FENECH pour webSYNradio. Avec des morceaux de The Monks, Andew Liles + Jean Hervé Péron, Glaxo Babies, Renaldo and the Loaf, Felix Kubin, Fritz Muller, Iggy + The Stooges, H.N.A.S, Volcano the Bear, Nervous Norvus, Jac Berrocal + David Fenech + Ghédalia Tazartès, Connan Mockasin, Brigitte Fontaine, Colin Stetson, Jr + His Soulettes…
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Deanna and Steven discuss the partial visa reimposition on Mexican nationals, the cancellation of Mexican eTAs, IRCC procedures for cancelling visas in general and the Supreme Court granting leave in Pepa. We also answer a listener question, which is whether Canadian visa officials should screen prospective immigrants for antisemitism. Hosted on Ac…
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This episode is a repost of episode 35, which has been our most listened to podcast episode to date. It was recorded on 27 January 2020. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v. Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65 was a landmark 2019 Supreme Court of Canada decision in which the Supreme Court of Canada outlined a new framework for the standard of revie…
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Amandeep Hayer is the founder of Hayer Law, a Vancouver immigration law firm. The Express Entry points requirement is currently higher than it has ever been. In this episode we discuss when they are likely to decrease. We also discuss a recent Ontario court decision which struck down Canada's two generation limit on citizenship by descent. Finally,…
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Warda Shazadi Meighen is an immigration lawyer in Toronto and the founder of Landings Law. Canadian immigration legislation states that adoptions that can lead to immigration must create a legal parent-child relationship and sever the pre-existing legal parent-child relationship.Many Islamic countries have adoption, or guardianship, regimes based o…
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Jamie Chai Yun Liew is a Professor at the University of Ottawa and the author of Ghost Citizens - Decolonial Apparitions of Stateless, Foreign and Wayward Figures in Law. In this episode we discuss statelessness, which is when someone does not have citizenship in any country because of the operation of law. We discuss how people can become stateles…
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Will Tao is a Canadian immigration and the founder of Heron Law Office. In January 2024 Justice Crampton, the Chief Justice of the Federal Court released a decision where he ruled that what constitutes “espionage” in Canadian immigration law must evolve “as hostile state actors increasingly make use of non-traditional methods to obtain sensitive in…
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Podcast du label Crónica. Pour le vingtième anniversaire du label portugais Crónica, qui s’est imposé comme une "plateforme majeure pour tout ce qui concerne les productions à la limite du conceptuel" (Coda), ses deux initiateurs Miguel Carvalhais et Pedro Tudela ont produit un programme de 3 heures, revisitant chacun des 200 titres du catalogue. h…
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Douglas Judson is a lawyer in Ontario who practices in litigation. He can be found on Twitter @dwjudson In this episode, we are taking a break from immigration and discussing defamation law, which is the law around communications about a person that tends to hurt their reputation. We are focusing on one of the defenses to defamation lawsuits, which…
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Pantea Jafari is lead counsel at Jafari Law, which she opened in 2012. In this episode, we discuss IRCC's response to the crisis in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Details of the program that is the subject of our discussion can be found on IRCC's website at canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/israel-west-bank-gaza-2023/canada-tr…
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Robin Seligman is the founder of Seligman Law, an immigration law firm in Toronto. In this episode we discuss Canada's business immigration programs, including a history of the Immigrant Investor Program and Entrepreneur Program, the current Start-Up Visa Program, and difficulties that entrepreneurs face in coming to Canada to start businesses. Hos…
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Podcast de Cristian Vogel pour websynradio : Third Space Requiems (inédit).“Third Space Requiems” est une trilogie électroacoustique de Cristián Vogel, composée dans les dernières heures de 2023 à la lumière d’événements qui ont profondément marqué son histoire sur un plan intime ou plus universel : Levitationism (0->6'30). Story In Blood (6'30->14…
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Michael Greene, K.C. is an immigration lawyer in Calgary. He served as the National Chair of the Canadian Bar Association’s Citizenship & Immigration Section in 2000-2001. He is representing Jaskirat Singh Sidhu in his immigration and deportation matters. We discuss the Federal Court decision in Sidhu v. Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Prepared…
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This episode is a repost of episode 56. We discuss issues involving the deportation of long term permanent residents for criminality.5:45 - What are the grounds for deporting a permanent resident for criminality?13:00 - How does the appeal process work?17:00 - What are the factors in deportation.19:00 - An overview of the history of the law involvi…
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Podcast de Caroline Bergvall pour websynradio : VOICES WITH TEXTS... Morceaux et textes par des poètes et musiciens, solo ou en collaboration. Avec les voix et les sons de Lee Ann Brown, Tom Phillips & Gavin Bryars, Sawako Nakayasu, Ida Börjel & Mathias Kristerson, Caroline Bergvall & Adam Parkinson, Fred Frith, Pauline Oliveros & John Giorno, Char…
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Programme de Gaël Segalen pour webSYNradio : Original Voices in Rhythms. Des pièces mémorables et uniques dialoguent ici les unes avec les autres comme j'aime dans ma pratique inviter les gens à se réunir pour le moment unique d'une rencontre enregistrée, former un duo et inventer de nouvelles formes de langage.Ce mix va d'une mélodie grande ouvert…
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Mason v. Canada was a Supreme Court of Canada decision which assessed whether inadmissibility on security grounds for engaging in violence required a nexus to national security. The Supreme Court of Canada's decision clarified the interpretation of "inadmissibility on security grounds" under section 34(1)(e) of the Immigration and Refugee Protectio…
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Podcast de PHILIPPE PETIT pour webSYNradio : 40 ans d’activisme musical ! Bienvenue sur webSYNradio dans notre émission spéciale évoquant la musique de Philippe Petit à l’occasion de ses 40 ans comme musical travel-agent comme il aime lui même se définir.http://synradio.fr/philippe-petit-40-ans-dactivisme-musical/…
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“When and why did Canada develop the legal powers to detain and deport immigrants?” This is the question asked by Simon Wallace, a PhD Student at Osgoode Hall Law School and refugee lawyer, in his paper published in Queen’s Law Journal titled “Police Authority is Necessary”: The Canadian Origins of the Legal Powers to Detain and Deport, 1893 – 1902…
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Podcast de LILIANE GIRAUDON pour webSYNradio : POSTCARDS POUR ANTONIO GRAMSCI. Ce qui manque, ce sont les voix. D’autres voix. Habitant autrement la bouche, les poumons, le foie et jusqu’aux os. Ces petites pièces sonores sélectionnées, je les ai imaginées comme de simples cartes postales adressées à Gramsci dont j’ai relu cet été les lettres de pr…
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Raj Sharma is an immigration lawyer in Calgary. In Borderlines Podcast Episode 69 we discussed his case Mohammad v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2022 FC 1, in which the Federal Court quashed an Immigration Appeal Division decision, stating that the IAD did not properly give enough weight to the unique contributions that Ms. Mohammad made a…
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Laura Best is an immigration lawyer practicing in Toronto. We discuss refugee resettlement and Canada's housing crisis, as well as whether Canada's housing shortage is impacting support for immigration. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.By Steven Meurrens and Deanna Okun-Achoff
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There has been an increase in security screening in Canadian visa applications for residents of several countries.Chen v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2023 FC 885 is the first Federal Court of Canada decision to discuss mandamus in the study permit context. Mandamus applications are actions to the Federal Court of Canada to compel IRCC to …
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Programme de Marie-Hélène BERNARD pour webSYNradio : Une « long nez » en Asie. Retour sur plus de deux décennies de pérégrinations en différents pays d'Asie, à une époque où le souci de son empreinte carbone était peu à l'ordre du jour… À l'arrivée, un mille-feuilles spécialement composé et mixé pour webSYNradio au début de l'été 2023, où s'entremê…
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Programme de Clara de Asís pour webSYNradio : Eyes closed (a playlist). Un dialogue entre des musiques improvisées et des musiques fixées, concrètes ou acousmatiques avec les sons de Michel Doneda et David Merlo, Clara de Asís, Julia A. Miller, Abdul Moimême, Francisco Lopez, Cello + Laptop, Lucie Vítková, David Maranha & Will Guthrie, Manu Holterb…
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This episode is a historical deep dive on Order in Council PC 1911-1324, an Order in Council from 1911 which stated that for a period of one year black people would not be permitted to immigrate in Canada because the Canadian government deemed them unsuitable to Canada's climate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Will Tao is a Canadian immigration and the founder of Heron Law Office. During this episode we discuss what got Will into immigration law, why he started his own firm, how he balances client files, advocacy and family life, whether he will take paternity leave after his second child is born, whether he thinks it is possible to take lengthy sabbatic…
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This episode is a joint recording of Borderlines and Ask Kubeir, a popular YouTube channel about Canadian immigration news and updates, hosted by Kubeir Kamal, a regulated immigration consultant in Toronto.We discuss how obtaining Canadian permanent residence is becomming more difficult for several groups, including recent international graduates, …
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Jandu v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2022 FC 1787, was a decision where the Federal Court quashed several visa refusals and misrepresentation findings for truck drivers. The case raised several interesting issues, including the roles of Service Canada and IRCC in assessing genuineness, and what documentation visa officers can reasonably e…
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