Immigration
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November 28, 2025
What happened to religious worker green cards?
Religious worker green cards have become scarcer in the past several years, contributing to a crisis facing American religious communities as leaders are retiring and dying faster than they can be replaced.
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November 27, 2025
Law360 Canada Pulse survey 2025: AI sparks debate on legal industry's future
Canadian lawyers are somewhat split on the impact artificial intelligence will have on their industry, a new Law360 Canada survey shows. According to the 2025 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey — which marks Law360 Canada’s third deep dive into the feelings and thoughts that legal professionals have about their jobs — nearly half of respondents agreed that both the pros and cons of AI are sizable.
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November 27, 2025
Judge deplores ‘abusive & vexatious’ litigation, squandering of court resources: ‘Enough is enough’
In a judgment which stands as a warning against wasting finite court resources, a Federal Court judge has terminated a self-represented plaintiff's third repetitive motion for reconsideration, stating “enough is enough — this type of recurring behaviour must be stopped for good, and with this order and reasons the bell tolls” for the plaintiff's failed efforts to challenge the validity of court orders featuring electronic typed judicial signatures, rather than the judge’s own handwritten signatures.
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November 26, 2025
Law360 Canada Pulse survey 2025: what lawyers really think about their profession
Find out what lawyers really think about their profession in Law360 Canada Pulse’s Lawyer Satisfaction Survey.
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November 25, 2025
Canada lifts visa requirement for citizens of Qatar
The federal government has lifted the visa requirement for citizens of Qatar, highlighting “bilateral cooperation” and boosting “growth in tourism, business, and investment.”
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November 25, 2025
Maple leaf to green card: Canada a multibillion-dollar immigration engine for U.S.
Canada’s economic bedrock has long been its audacious immigration policy. For decades, we’ve prided ourselves on a logical, points-based system, meticulously designed to attract the world’s “best and brightest.” We offer a clear, efficient path to Permanent Residence, a robust social safety net and the promise of a stable, inclusive future. But what if this meticulously curated talent pool views Canada not as their ultimate destination, but as a strategic, temporary layover — a convenient “backdoor” to the elusive American dream?
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November 25, 2025
Law360 Canada Pulse survey 2025: lawyers grapple with stress amid financial strain, long hours
The legal profession is going through seismic change as it grapples with things like artificial intelligence, but one issue that has been around for centuries still remains — stress. According to the 2025 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey — which marks Law360 Canada’s third deep dive into the feelings and thoughts that legal professionals have about their jobs — 85 per cent of associates say they are at least sometimes stressed by their finances, along with 77 per cent of those at small firms.
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November 24, 2025
Law360 Canada Pulse survey 2025: nearly two-thirds of lawyers satisfied with jobs, but concerns remain
A recent survey of the legal profession is showing high marks on issues like job satisfaction and compensation. According to the 2025 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey — which marks Law360 Canada’s third deep dive into the feelings and thoughts that legal professionals have about their jobs — 63 per cent of respondents report being satisfied or very satisfied with their jobs overall, up from 60 per cent last year.
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November 21, 2025
Federal judges say they’ll take Ottawa to court over rejection of independent pay commission’s recommendations
The association representing Canada’s federally appointed judges decided this week to seek judicial review of Ottawa’s rejection of an independent judicial pay commission’s two key recommendations — including the commission’s advice that a $28,000 salary boost (on top of mandatory annual indexing) is necessary to keep attracting outstanding lawyers to the bench.
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November 21, 2025
The legal inevitability of the ostrich cull
However one feels about the recent cull of ostriches on a British Columbia farm, the result of the legal challenge to the cull order was inevitable because the wisdom of government policy may not be challenged on judicial review: Universal Ostrich Farms Inc. v. Canada (Food Inspection Agency), 2025 FCA 147, leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada refused Nov. 6, 2025.