In the week after Donald Trump won the American election, I received texts from several American friends saying they wanted to move to Canada. Were they serious? I got similar messages when Trump was elected the first time in 2016, and none of my friends uprooted themselves. But this time they sounded more anxious. Trump seems better organized this time, more vengeful. Journalists who negatively covered Trump’s shenanigans are genuinely afraid of retribution. There’s a cohort of lawyers who tried to impeach him or get him convicted. Will Trump doxx them, make their lives impossible? Unfortunately, I had to explain to my anxious American pals that our own borders are slamming shut, as the Liberals attempt to fix the problems created by loose immigration policies. Which Americans will Canada accept and under what conditions? Ryan Rosenberg, a Vancouver-based immigration lawyer, spent the last month fielding such questions. He even launched a website called Trumpugees.com to manage a post-election influx of immigration inquiries. In an eye-opening Q&A, Rosenberg lays out the type of American immigrants Canada will accept and the best ways to make a northern escape. —Sarah Fulford, editor-in-chief, Maclean’s |
With the rise of polyamory, families with three or more parents are increasingly common. But Canadian parentage laws are lagging behind, leaving some parents unable to claim paid parental leave or even put children on their family health plans. Family lawyer Catherine J. Wong has worked with the whole spectrum of “non-traditional” families, including polyamorous ones. In an essay for Maclean’s, she writes about why lawyers and advocates are currently revisiting the definition of parentage. “The more everyone understands that these families are just like others—planning holidays, negotiating bedtimes with toddlers—the easier it will be for the law to evolve along with them.” |
Back home in Bogotá, Yeison Nova Malagon’s English education in school was limited to just two hours a week—barely enough to cover the basics. English was essential for his career in tourism and hospitality, so he moved to Toronto in 2019 to study ESL. At first, he had to use Google Translate just to get by, and even after six months, casual conversations in English still threw him off. “Everything changed when my friends suggested I use ChatGPT for questions and translations,” Malagon writes in this essay for Maclean’s. ChatGPT isn’t perfect, but it’s become his safety net for complex phrases— and will be his secret weapon as he pursues Canadian residency. |
For a while, bringing hundreds of thousands of international students into Canada seemed like a great idea. It was a windfall for universities and colleges, and the students helped fill Canada’s labour gaps. In exchange, they were promised post-graduation work permits and what seemed to be a straight line to citizenship. But recently, Canada has been scaling back its immigration targets. For many students and recent graduates, the changes are devastating: they’ll be forced to leave the country, when they had every reason to think they’d be able to stay. At Maclean’s, we wondered how these could’ve-been Canadians were coping. Here, four of them share their stories. |
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