Lost Canadians

 Texas-born 16-year-old has Canadian ties through her father, grandfather Teenage surfing prodigy Erin Brooks has won her fight for Canadian citizenship, opening the door for her to compete ...

https://blog.lostcanadian.com/2024/01/cbc-teenage-surfing-star-erin-brooks.html

The good news arrived Saturday morning: After a protracted battle and initial rejection by Ottawa, 16-year-old surfing phenom Erin Brooks will become a Canadian citizen. It means she can compe...

https://blog.lostcanadian.com/2024/01/the-good-news-arrived-saturday-morning.html

  The immigration minister can grant anyone citizenship he likes and yet the simplest, lowest-profile cases of obviously Canadian children rarely seem to get to the top of his pile BY CHRIS...

https://blog.lostcanadian.com/2023/12/national-post-lost-canadians-beat.html

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Second-generation cut-off rule created in 2009 found to violate Charter rights KAREN PAULS · CBC NEWS  To read the original article, go to CBC.ca December 22, 2023: Ontario's Superior C...

https://blog.lostcanadian.com/2023/12/cbc-lost-canadians-win-in-ontario-court.html

  AN ONTARIO JUDGE HAS RULED IT UNCONSTITUTIONAL FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO DENY AUTOMATIC CITIZENSHIP TO THE CHILDREN OF FOREIGN-BORN CANADIANS WHO GROW UP ABROAD.  Hannah Alberga CTV N...

https://blog.lostcanadian.com/2023/12/ctv-denial-of-citizenship-for-kids-of.html

Click here to read Justice Akbarali's entire 55 page decision on line at CANLII.org  

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  CTVNORTHERNONTARIO.CA VIDEOJOURNALIST MIKE MCDONALD December 21, 2023: A Sault Ste. Marie man was looking to update his driver's license when he made a shocking discovery. Wayne Sawye...

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Emma Kenyon and Daniel Warelis and baby Darcy. The judge referred to the experience of Kenyon, a foreign-born Canadian, who was forced to give birth to her child in late 2021 in Hong Kong, whe...

https://blog.lostcanadian.com/2023/12/lost-canadians-win-court-battle-to.html

  CITIZENSHIP ACT Mr. Jasraj Singh Hallan (Calgary Forest Lawn, CPC) moved that Bill S-245, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (granting citizenship to certain Canadians), be read the sec...

https://blog.lostcanadian.com/2022/10/hansard-debates-of-house-of-commons.html

    Madam Speaker, for decades some Canadians have found themselves to be stateless due to a number of convoluted immigration laws. Some have found themselves all of a sudden losing their Ca...

https://blog.lostcanadian.com/2022/10/hansard-addressing-issue-of-lost.html

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If passed, Bill S-245 will fix one issue in the Citizenship Act, but others are still in limbo by Karen Pauls When Pete Giesbrecht was summoned to his local police station on Halloween 2015, h...

https://blog.lostcanadian.com/2022/09/cbc-can-new-legislation-help-lost.html

https://blog.lostcanadian.com/2022/05/the-senate-bill-s-245-to-have.html

https://blog.lostcanadian.com/2021/06/the-senate-speech-on-bill-s-230-its.html

https://blog.lostcanadian.com/2021/04/canadian-studies-centre-lost-canadians.html

https://blog.lostcanadian.com/2020/01/cbc-why-this-canadian-cant-officially.html

https://blog.lostcanadian.com/2018/09/ottawa-citizen-heather-harnois-has-been.html

  The term “Lost Canadians” refers to people who either lost the Canadian citizenship they had at birth, or didn’t qualify for citizenship that would normally have been theirs by right i...

https://blog.lostcanadian.com/2017/07/canadian-enyclopedia-lost-canadians.html

  Byrdie Funk shows off her Certificate of Canadian Citizenship outside of a citizenship ceremony at Canada Place in Vancouver on Saturday. (Linda Givetash/Canadian Press) 'I HAVE ALWAYS BE...

https://blog.lostcanadian.com/2017/07/cbc-bc-woman-regains-canadian.html

  Byrdie Funk, pictured at her home in Squamish, B.C., is one of an unknown number of people caught by a law that automatically revokes the citizenship of certain Canadians who fail to offici...

https://blog.lostcanadian.com/2016/09/cbc-arcane-law-strips-squamish-woman.html

VANCOUVER — Byrdie Funk had what some would call a quintessential, small-town Canadian upbringing. At two months old, she moved from Mexico with her Canadian parents to a farming community in...

https://blog.lostcanadian.com/2016/09/national-post-i-had-no-idea-that.html

  Citizenship and Immigration doesn't know or understand its own rules, says critic  A 99-year-old woman is going public after she was denied Canadian citizenship and a health card despite ...

https://blog.lostcanadian.com/2015/09/cbc-go-public-woman-99-denied.html

When Don Chapman was six years old, he was stripped of his Canadian citizenship, thanks to an arcane provision of the Canadian Citizenship Act. Years later, he was stunned to discover the fact,...

https://blog.lostcanadian.com/2015/04/hot-off-press-lost-canadians-struggle.html

Federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May filed a petition today on behalf of the Lost Canadians, a citizenship advocacy group, challenging the federal government’s version of the history of C...

https://blog.lostcanadian.com/2014/12/vancouver-observer-lost-canadians-file.html