Iranian officials are banned from Canada — but this former regime member landed in April
June 27, 2025
Canada banned all senior Iranian officials who served from 2003 onward from entering the country and vowed to crack down on members of the regime currently here. But the case of Mahdi Nasiri in Canada is raising questions about how effective that crackdown is.
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The 45-year-old's family said their finances are being stretched as they try to navigate the confusing and difficult legal and immigration systems in the United States.
July 19, 2025 - 08:37 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
A group of Quebec businesses are suing the federal government for $300-million over Ottawa’s sharp tightening of the temporary foreign worker program last fall, arguing that the policy reversal was too abrupt and could drive some of them into insolvency. The lawsuit, filed in late May, includes nearly two dozen companies in industries from plastics to truck components to slaughterhouses concentrated in the Montéregie region of the province, just outside Montreal, along with five temporary foreign workers whose livelihoods will be or have been affected by the policy changes.
July 19, 2025 - 08:00 | Eric Andrew-Gee | The Globe and Mail
The days of cramming travel-sized shampoo bottles into plastic bags could soon be over. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem hinted that the longstanding liquid restrictions for carry-on luggage could be lifted.
During a conference hosted by The Hill in Washington, Noem said on July 16 that she was “questioning everything TSA (Transportation Security Administration) does” and hinted at potential revisions to the rules governing liquids in carry-on bags.
“The liquids, I’m questioning. So that may be the next big announcement, is what size your liquids need to be,” Noem said at...
July 19, 2025 - 07:25 | Amna Ahmad | National Post
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