IRCC online portals have been down more than up recently. Was down Friday, apparently back up on the weekend. Monday was so bad that CBSA couldn't even print work and study permits at the POEs. Got a bit done yesterday and today I'm getting this again. Starting to get a backlog of work.

This is a great point. Carney's analogy applies inside the US as well. Everyone needs to take the sign down. Nostalgia is not a strategy.

Firing over 100 immigration judges. Arresting immigrants outside of their immigration hearings. Pausing asylum decisions. And now? Cancelling citizenship ceremonies, the final step to becoming a U.S. citizen. Just remember that Trump never cared about "legal immigration."

Black Friday 2024 purchase - a PS5. After 11 months the controller was stick drifting so bad...was going to try to make a warranty claim, but feedback is that its a huge hassle & sony makes you pay to ship it to them. Disassembled ( tricky!) & cleaned potentiometers, controller works great!

Inland Temporary Residence Permit approved for a client. Processing time 22 months! #IRCC #ImmigrationCanada

Wow - took a month, but Google Maps has accept the edit to the map of our office building. The non-existent road that was getting everyone lost has been removed.

Huge change in both volume & approval rate of study permit from India to Canada. August 2023 - 20900 applications, approval rate 68% August 2025 - 4515 applications, approval rate 26% #IRCC #Immigration #CanadaImmigration www.reuters.com/world/india/...

Got my #fantasybasketball squad drafted and ready to go. Taking Zion was kind of insane. Risk Reward I guess!

New office computer. Tried New Outlook. Yeah that lasted 10 minutes. Can't download all the attachments from an email with out doing as a zip folder and then having to extract. Screw that.

Not just the US Media either. We had CTV on yesterday and there was a cooking show with a long segment of Amazon kitchen do-dads for sale at suspiciously high prices. QR code on the screen for easy ordering.

Clients are getting terrible directions from Google Maps and getting lost. My office is on Weber Street. There is an apartment building nearby on Hickory street. There NO is road or driveway between the two lots. Google recently connected our lot to Hickory St. there is nothing there....

"Where they make a wasteland, they call it peace." -Calgacus, a Caledonian warrior, speaking about the Roman conquest of Britain in the First Century AD, via Tacitus

The 2018-19 Raptors were stacked: Kawhi Leonard - allstar Marc Gasol - allstar Kyle Lowry - allstar Pascal Siakam - allstar Fred VanVleet - allstar Serge Ibaka - 1st-team all-D OG Anunoby - 2nd team all-D Danny Green - 2nd team all-D Norman Powell, a 22 ppg scorer now, was their 9th man. #NBA

My client just received the good news step that its time to pay his Right of Permanent Residence Fee so his PR application can be finalized. Sent of course in the format of a threatening letter, as one does.

I love being part of the Queens community! What a great idea!

Guitar content ! A guitar I made for a good friend who wondered what a tele would be like if it was really more of a Les Paul Custom, but with a Gretsch wiring scheme and a Filtertron pickup!

Great stuff! Really would like us to move forward and end FPTP!

Just finished DeMar DeRozan's book. As a huge Raptors fan was great to get his perpsective on family, growing up in Compton, arriving in Toronto as an 18-year old. His hurt on being traded away... and his advocacy on mental health. Great stuff!

In a era of truly stupid ideas, the 401 highway tunnel is an outlier. * induced demand means it will never solve the traffic * it will cost a fortune * City of Ottawa's study on a 3km underground highway- $2 Billion - (9 years ago!) - project no longer considered * Ford wants 30-70 km !!

Wow Jets... OT... increbidle comeback.

IRCC recently made Express Entry changes to drop 50 CRS points for those that have job offers in Canada. I was very curious what effect this would have on the pool of candidates. How large of a group would lose points? How would this effect score distribution ?

Canada needs to think through our response to the US threat in a way we haven’t yet done. One big reason we desperately need a Royal Commission. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

If this results in a national unity crisis, it is because political leaders like D. Smith choose to cultivate a narrative of betrayal instead of engaging constructively through intergovernmental cooperation to find feasible policy solutions. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

NEW: CTV cancelled a fact-checking segment in response to political pressure from Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives

Impossible to disagree with a single word in here: “We now urgently need those newspapers to be owned by loyal Canadians committed to Canada’s independence — not by a hedge fund aligned with a manipulative and deceitful power-monger who has designs on us.” www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

If Canadians really want to support trans folks in the U.S., they have to fight like hell against the same anti-trans rhetoric and policies here at home. We literally have provinces passing anti-trans legislation. Canada is not safe.

Julie's session is great, highly recommend!

BREAKING: Mexican Cartels abandon Canada after being forced to conduct business in both English and French

Dear Americans, In the Westminster parliamentary system, which Canada follows, one does not "run yo be Prime Minister". The party with the most seats is asked by the Governor General to form government. Only then does that party's leader become PM, after being sworn in by the GG.

One of the ways 5 Eyes benefits the members on a every day level is on visa processing. When my clients have their fingerprints taken for Canadian applications, those prints are shared with the other 4 partners. The process is very fast.

In other words: We urgently need a plan to encounter a serious attempt at colonializing us.

Doesn't appear to have hit Canadian media yet, but a Trump executive order from Jan has immigration implications on some Canadians visiting USA more than 30 days. www.lexology.com/library/deta...

The world has witnessed the most disgraceful political tantrum of all time. Trump is not the leader of the "free world." He is convicted felon who doesn't deserve to be in the same room as President Zelenskyy. There is no going along to get along with this thug. Canada needs to stand with Ukraine.

Just arranged tickets so our team of 12 and 13yr olds can go watch University of Waterloo basketball this weekend!

I signed this and encourage all Canadians to support it!

U.S. gunmakers are supplying the deadly weapons that power its neighbours’ criminals, from street gangs in Toronto to international cocaine and fentanyl cartels operating out of Mexico, experts tell the Star.

This pod from @strongtowns.org on "resistance to new development" really strikes home. Seen this in my own neighbourhood as people oppose incremental projects, have meetings, delay approval, then it eventually goes ahead as planned with huge delay. www.podbean.com/ep/pb-jbg68-... #urbanism

Working with a new married couple, they have been waiting six months for their Ontario marriage certificate! This is longer than usual, but Ontario seems to be the worst jurisdiction in the whole world for this. Commonly 2-3 months. Why????

Don't let Elon Musk interfere in our elections. Here is my letter to Elections Canada to protect our electoral process from interference by the X algorithm. www.charlieangus.ca/_files/ugd/5... If you are worried about Musk's extremism please send an email to: [email protected]

Pretty major immigration / border changes announced. 🧵 Most significant would be ending "flagpolling". Changes to regulation will be needed. Its something that no one likes, and I've always tried to avoid for my clients as much as possible. #IRCC #CBSA #immigration www.canada.ca/en/public-sa...

Canadian Immigration folks... is there some way to electronically track H&C applications that I am missing? They are not an option to add in APR portal, and they don't appear in the PR Tracker. Seems just about everything else can be tracked now. #cdnimm #IRCC

Very productive trip to passport office in Kitchener! Got our kids renewals filed. Also had wonderful assistance from staff to plan an #IRCC biometrics collection later this week for an elderly client lacking most usual forms of ID.

Highest ever recorded government spending on advertisements under Ford, totalling $103.5 million. 62% of it was on campaigns flagged by the Auditor General. A complete abuse of power and finances #OnPoli: www.auditor.on.ca/en/content/a...

Google reviews have really jumped the shark. A restaurant around the corner that just put their sign up, and started a soft opening has 50 reviews already, all 5 stars... as any launch would typically generate.

More Friday #guitar content! Another recent project....made this for my lil nephew. Three string Rhodes V style, with some cigar box parts to keep things at the right size!

Guitar content! My most recent elctric guitar build. Still getting it dialed in here and there, but playing it a ton. #guitar

Happy Friday! Two spousal sponsorships completed and ready to confer PR to my clients. Love sending out that good news! #CanadaImmigration