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Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) is investigating a record 11,000 people in Canada suspected of having acquired their Canadian citizenship and immigration status via fraud. Around 7,500 cases...
If no Canadians existed before 1947, what is one to make of the deportation of Japanese Canadian "citizens" during the war, or of government PR around "Canadian soldiers"?
While Canada's record of helping refugees is well established, our current system continues to be challenging and complicated, and Bill C-31 threatens to make the process even more difficult.
According to a Citizenship and Immigration letter, a Canadian soldier who was born prior to 1947 was a "British subject": what does that mean for all the Canadian soldiers who fought for the country?
Ian Munroe couldn't figure it out. Why wasn't he a Canadian? "Lost Canadian," is a title referring to potentially tens of thousands of Canadians who, by a continuing set of obscure Canadian...
As the world celebrates progress on International Women's Day, Lost Canadians born out of wedlock face gender discrimination due to outdated citizenship laws.
"They're discrediting my father," Scott said on the rejection of her Canadian citizenship application. This time, she said, even her war veteran father's Canadian status is being put into question.
"Tell her I came to say hi," a man told the journalist's sister – and showed her a gun.
In this VO exclusive, Karla Lottini tells the tale of her fight to lead a safe life in Canada.
Mexican journalist Karla Berenice García Ramírez blew the whistle on government corruption in Mexico, moving to Surrey after death threats. Now the writer and broadcaster faces imminent deportation.