Unpublished Newswire

A social worker who specializes in youth mental health is heading back to Ireland after he says Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada cancelled his work permit without his knowledge and without giving him a chance to respond.

Here’s the truth. I drank. Probably before I met my boyfriend at the Toronto Island ferry. It was the summer of 2020, and I was always buzzed. Sometimes I drank a whole carton of wine on the other side of the lake before getting onto the boat. Sometimes I’d show up early on the island and sit in a park and down a mickey of vodka before seeing him, and then I’d gently twist his proverbial arm, and we’d have more drinks at the restaurant’s tiki bar. My boyfriend and I in Muskoka chairs on the lawn by the bar, with beers or ciders, watching and occasionally talking to whoever would stop by...