Andrew Griffith 🇨🇦
@alg232.bsky.social
‘Birth tourism’ organizer jailed over scheme to bring pregnant Chinese women to US multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/02/06/b... via @Andrew_Griffith Not aware of any similar cases in Canada. Google indicates a number of lawyers and consultants who offer their services #citizenship
‘Birth tourism’ organizer jailed over scheme to bring pregnant Chinese women to US
Not aware of any similar cases in Canada in terms of charges given that there is no such prohibition. However, Richmond had an active cottage industry of services to pregnant Chinese women and any …
multiculturalmeanderings.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:05 PM
‘Birth tourism’ organizer jailed over scheme to bring pregnant Chinese women to US multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/02/06/b... via @Andrew_Griffith Not aware of any similar cases in Canada. Google indicates a number of lawyers and consultants who offer their services #citizenship
Carney government replacing #Islamophobia and #antisemitism envoys with advisory council multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/02/05/c... via @Andrew_Griffith Can’t claim credit but it has been something I have been advocating for some time, as separate envoys tend to accentuate differences
Carney government replacing Islamophobia and antisemitism envoys with advisory council
Can’t claim credit but it has been something I have been advocating for some time, as separate envoys tend to accentuate differences: Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government said Wednesday th…
multiculturalmeanderings.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Carney government replacing #Islamophobia and #antisemitism envoys with advisory council multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/02/05/c... via @Andrew_Griffith Can’t claim credit but it has been something I have been advocating for some time, as separate envoys tend to accentuate differences
Order of Canada Appointments: 2025 and historical multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/02/04/o... via @Andrew_Griffith
February 4, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Order of Canada Appointments: 2025 and historical multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/02/04/o... via @Andrew_Griffith
@debthompsonphd.bsky.social Year one of Donald Trump’s second term has been catastrophic for American democracy multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/17/t... via @Andrew_Griffith Comprehensive, accurate and depressing read
Thompson: Year one of Donald Trump’s second term has been catastrophic for American democracy
Comprehensive, accurate and depressing read: …There’s no sugar-coating it: A year of Donald Trump has been more catastrophic for American democracy than we could have predicted. I don’t know …
multiculturalmeanderings.com
January 17, 2026 at 5:05 PM
@debthompsonphd.bsky.social Year one of Donald Trump’s second term has been catastrophic for American democracy multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/17/t... via @Andrew_Griffith Comprehensive, accurate and depressing read
@marshalederman.bsky.social
The fallout from the Gaza War continues to be felt in the literary world multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/17/l... via
@Andrew_Griffith
"We must not seek to censor well-meaning, serious artists, but to invite them in & respectfully challenge opinions that rankle"
The fallout from the Gaza War continues to be felt in the literary world multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/17/l... via
@Andrew_Griffith
"We must not seek to censor well-meaning, serious artists, but to invite them in & respectfully challenge opinions that rankle"
Lederman: The fallout from the Gaza War continues to be felt in the literary world
Sad that this needs to be said: …A plea – and I make this as someone whose own appearance at a book festival last year attracted letters of protest: We must ensure literary spaces are inclusi…
multiculturalmeanderings.com
January 17, 2026 at 4:55 PM
@marshalederman.bsky.social
The fallout from the Gaza War continues to be felt in the literary world multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/17/l... via
@Andrew_Griffith
"We must not seek to censor well-meaning, serious artists, but to invite them in & respectfully challenge opinions that rankle"
The fallout from the Gaza War continues to be felt in the literary world multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/17/l... via
@Andrew_Griffith
"We must not seek to censor well-meaning, serious artists, but to invite them in & respectfully challenge opinions that rankle"
#Immigrants more likely to cite human rights, #diversity as ‘Canadian values’: survey multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/17/i... via @Andrew_Griffith Of note
Immigrants more likely to cite human rights, diversity as ‘Canadian values’: survey
Of note: Immigrants are more likely than those born in Canada to identify things like respect for human rights and gender equality as “shared Canadian values,” say survey results in briefing notes …
multiculturalmeanderings.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:30 PM
#Immigrants more likely to cite human rights, #diversity as ‘Canadian values’: survey multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/17/i... via @Andrew_Griffith Of note
L’immigration se régionalise au Québec, The immigration shift away from Canada’s three biggest cities multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/17/l... via @Andrew_Griffith Of note
L’immigration se régionalise au Québec, The immigration shift away from Canada’s three biggest cities
Of note: “Le dernier bilan démographique des régions laisse entrevoir une répartition accrue de l’immigration aux quatre coins du Québec. Si Montréal attire encore la majorité des nouveaux arrivant…
multiculturalmeanderings.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:29 PM
L’immigration se régionalise au Québec, The immigration shift away from Canada’s three biggest cities multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/17/l... via @Andrew_Griffith Of note
Fixing Canada’s broken #immigration system – Presenting more data to Parliament: @maxmako2015 multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/16/f... via @Andrew_Griffith Some of his recommendations already underway, some useful strengthening data and annual plan, others not realistic
Fixing Canada’s broken immigration system – Presenting more data to Parliament: Michael Barutciski
First in a series of opinion pieces by MLI. In reading Barutciski’s recommendations for more data, he presents the case as if no data available when in fact in most areas he mentions, open da…
multiculturalmeanderings.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Fixing Canada’s broken #immigration system – Presenting more data to Parliament: @maxmako2015 multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/16/f... via @Andrew_Griffith Some of his recommendations already underway, some useful strengthening data and annual plan, others not realistic
@parkinac.bsky.social Freedom vs. equality: Quebec and the rest of Canada multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/16/p... via @Andrew_Griffith More interesting findings
Parkin – Freedom vs. equality: Quebec and the rest of Canada
More interesting findings: …Do these differences among provinces and regions matter to our politics? On the one hand, they should not be exaggerated (and we should always resist the urge to s…
multiculturalmeanderings.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:25 PM
@parkinac.bsky.social Freedom vs. equality: Quebec and the rest of Canada multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/16/p... via @Andrew_Griffith More interesting findings
StatsCan: Overrepresentation of #Indigenous and #Black adults in provincial and federal custody multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/15/s... via @Andrew_Griffith Usual sound data analysis from StatsCan, higher gaps than I expected
StatsCan: Overrepresentation of Indigenous and Black adults in provincial and federal custody
Usual sound data analysis from StatsCan, higher gaps than I expected: In 2023/2024, Indigenous adults were incarcerated at a rate 10 times higher than non-Indigenous adults in the six provinces wit…
multiculturalmeanderings.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:30 PM
StatsCan: Overrepresentation of #Indigenous and #Black adults in provincial and federal custody multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/15/s... via @Andrew_Griffith Usual sound data analysis from StatsCan, higher gaps than I expected
@AGMacDougall | Canada does not need to lie down and accept Elon Musk’s giant mess multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/15/m... via @Andrew_Griffith good commentary
MacDougall | Canada does not need to lie down and accept Elon Musk’s giant mess
Good commentary: …Welcome to the classic Big Tech manoeuvre: make (or enable) a giant mess, and then bark at others to clean it up. But that’s a poor response to minor offences and an egregio…
multiculturalmeanderings.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:29 PM
@AGMacDougall | Canada does not need to lie down and accept Elon Musk’s giant mess multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/15/m... via @Andrew_Griffith good commentary
Ottawa’s shutting-out of startup founders is shutting down Canada’s future multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/14/o... via @Andrew_Griffith Hard to square “rigorous integrity checks” with speed in decision making. Government generally has a poor record in assessing business #immigration programs
Ottawa’s shutting-out of startup founders is shutting down Canada’s future
Hard to square “rigorous integrity checks” with speed in decision making. Government generally has a poor record in assessing business immigration programs: …We are not the only c…
multiculturalmeanderings.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Ottawa’s shutting-out of startup founders is shutting down Canada’s future multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/14/o... via @Andrew_Griffith Hard to square “rigorous integrity checks” with speed in decision making. Government generally has a poor record in assessing business #immigration programs
@dhorak.bsky.social The protests in Iran echo past uprisings. But this time, they feel different, @reggcohn , Ebadi and Akhavan multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/14/h... via @Andrew_Griffith Some of the better analyses of the situation in Iran, starting with former Canadian diplomat Dennis Horak
Horak: The protests in Iran echo past uprisings. But this time, they feel different, Regg Cohn, Ebadi and Akhavan
Some of the better analyses of the situation in Iran, starting with former Canadian diplomat Dennis Horak: …Notwithstanding the challenges the regime faces, it would be foolish to underestima…
multiculturalmeanderings.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:09 PM
@dhorak.bsky.social The protests in Iran echo past uprisings. But this time, they feel different, @reggcohn , Ebadi and Akhavan multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/14/h... via @Andrew_Griffith Some of the better analyses of the situation in Iran, starting with former Canadian diplomat Dennis Horak
ICYMI - Revealed: How international student spots are being distributed — unevenly — across Ontario multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/13/i... via @Andrew_Griffith Good and useful data
ICYMI – Revealed: How international student spots are being distributed — unevenly — across Ontario
Good and useful data: …Previous efforts to understand how PALs were distributed across the province were hindered by confidentiality claims and concerns about the impact on competitive advant…
multiculturalmeanderings.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:08 PM
ICYMI - Revealed: How international student spots are being distributed — unevenly — across Ontario multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/13/i... via @Andrew_Griffith Good and useful data
ICYMI: Newcomers seeking permanent residency face uncertainty, frustration over Ontario #immigration changes multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/13/i... via @Andrew_Griffith More due diligence in program planning, earlier corrective measures should be goal rather than fixing problems after the fact
ICYMI: Newcomers seeking permanent residency face uncertainty, frustration over Ontario immigration changes
Fixing problems after the fact rather than more due diligence in program planning or earlier corrective measures should be the goal: …Lou Janssen Dangzalan, an immigration lawyer in Toronto, …
multiculturalmeanderings.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:07 PM
ICYMI: Newcomers seeking permanent residency face uncertainty, frustration over Ontario #immigration changes multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/13/i... via @Andrew_Griffith More due diligence in program planning, earlier corrective measures should be goal rather than fixing problems after the fact
ICYMI: The government is still not hiring enough #Disabled people: @PSCofCanada report multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/13/i... via @Andrew_Griffith Of note (I await the EE report to assess the impact of the cuts on EE groups)
ICYMI: The government is still not hiring enough disabled people: PSC report
Of note (I await the EE report to assess the impact of the cuts on EE groups): …The report found that public servants with disabilities “were consistently under-represented in acting appointm…
multiculturalmeanderings.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:05 PM
ICYMI: The government is still not hiring enough #Disabled people: @PSCofCanada report multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/13/i... via @Andrew_Griffith Of note (I await the EE report to assess the impact of the cuts on EE groups)
An impatient Mark Carney would rather bypass the public service than reform it multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/12/a... via @Andrew_Griffith Public service reform is thankless task politically & takes inordinate amount of time, effort & political support. Needed but rarely executed #cdnpoli
An impatient Mark Carney would rather bypass the public service than reform it
Public service reform is a thankless task politically and takes an inordinate amount of time, effort and political support. Needed but rarely executed given previous failures like UCS. Former deput…
multiculturalmeanderings.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:24 PM
An impatient Mark Carney would rather bypass the public service than reform it multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/12/a... via @Andrew_Griffith Public service reform is thankless task politically & takes inordinate amount of time, effort & political support. Needed but rarely executed #cdnpoli
Canada’s #immigration system is favouring these kinds of applicants — even over others who score higher multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/12/c... via @Andrew_Griffith More of the preference for French-speaking immigrants in express entry, diluting the CRS
Canada’s immigration system is favouring these kinds of applicants — even over others who score higher
More of the preference for French-speaking immigrants in express entry, diluting the CRS: French-speaking candidates made up 42 per cent of the people invited for permanent residence last year via …
multiculturalmeanderings.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Canada’s #immigration system is favouring these kinds of applicants — even over others who score higher multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/12/c... via @Andrew_Griffith More of the preference for French-speaking immigrants in express entry, diluting the CRS
Sarkonak: The federal judge determined to dismantle Canada’s #immigration safeguards multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/12/j... via @Andrew_Griffith Judicial appointments matter and have impact. Column would have been more balanced if it had examples of rejections
Jamie Sarkonak: The federal judge determined to dismantle Canada’s immigration safeguards
Judicial appointments matter and have impact. Column would have been more balanced if it had more examples of rejections: In 2013, Toronto lawyer Avvy Yao-Yao Go described herself as a “loudmouth a…
multiculturalmeanderings.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Sarkonak: The federal judge determined to dismantle Canada’s #immigration safeguards multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/12/j... via @Andrew_Griffith Judicial appointments matter and have impact. Column would have been more balanced if it had examples of rejections
Temporary foreign workers switch jobs and earn more after becoming permanent residents, study finds multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/12/t... via @Andrew_Griffith Of note, not terribly surprising but good to see the data behind it
Temporary foreign workers switch jobs and earn more after becoming permanent residents, study finds
Of note, not terribly surprising but good to see the data behind it: …The research, which was conducted by economists at universities in Toronto and Chicago, found several benefits for worker…
multiculturalmeanderings.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Temporary foreign workers switch jobs and earn more after becoming permanent residents, study finds multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/12/t... via @Andrew_Griffith Of note, not terribly surprising but good to see the data behind it
@reggcohn.bsky.social | Anti-Israel protests expose the lack of leadership at city hall and Queen’s Park multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/10/r... via @Andrew_Griffith Indeed, sad example of passing the buck back and forth
Regg Cohn | Anti-Israel protests expose the lack of leadership at city hall and Queen’s Park
Indeed, sad example of passing the buck back and forth: …The minister who oversees law enforcement says more needs to be done. The mayor says she’d like to see more arrests and has spoken to …
multiculturalmeanderings.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:45 PM
@reggcohn.bsky.social | Anti-Israel protests expose the lack of leadership at city hall and Queen’s Park multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/10/r... via @Andrew_Griffith Indeed, sad example of passing the buck back and forth
Idées | L’interculturalisme québécois est-il mort? multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/10/i... via
@Andrew_Griffith
Good assessment
@Andrew_Griffith
Good assessment
Idées | L’interculturalisme québécois est-il mort?
Good assessment: L’un des faits marquants de l’année qui vient de se terminer, quasiment passé sous le radar, est la rupture opérée par le gouvernement caquiste à l’endroit de ce qu’il était conven…
multiculturalmeanderings.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Idées | L’interculturalisme québécois est-il mort? multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/10/i... via
@Andrew_Griffith
Good assessment
@Andrew_Griffith
Good assessment
Want to immigrate to Canada? Learn French multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/10/w... via @Andrew_Griffith Political objectives over economic, with little evidence shared #Immigration
Want to immigrate to Canada? Learn French
Political objectives over economic, with little evidence shared: At a time when Canada is clamping down on immigration, there is now a clear strategy for settling permanently in the country: Learn …
multiculturalmeanderings.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Want to immigrate to Canada? Learn French multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/10/w... via @Andrew_Griffith Political objectives over economic, with little evidence shared #Immigration
55 ans d’attente pour une résidence permanente multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/10/5... via
@Andrew_Griffith
Not tenable #Immigration
@Andrew_Griffith
Not tenable #Immigration
55 ans d’attente pour une résidence permanente
Not tenable: Les immigrants qui ont demandé la résidence permanente via certains programmes humanitaires pourraient ne jamais l’obtenir de leur vivant. Devant la baisse des cibles d’admission d’Ott…
multiculturalmeanderings.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:41 PM
55 ans d’attente pour une résidence permanente multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/10/5... via
@Andrew_Griffith
Not tenable #Immigration
@Andrew_Griffith
Not tenable #Immigration
A Supreme Court ruling could bring historic drop in Black representation in Congress multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/10/a... via @Andrew_Griffith of note
A Supreme Court ruling could bring historic drop in Black representation in Congress
Of note: The United States could be headed toward the largest-ever decline in representation by Black members of Congress, depending on how the Supreme Court rules in a closely watched redistrictin…
multiculturalmeanderings.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:40 PM
A Supreme Court ruling could bring historic drop in Black representation in Congress multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/10/a... via @Andrew_Griffith of note