G.A.B.-Estable #BLM #MMIW

He/Him. Lui/Il. El. Uruguayan-Canadian. Immigration Case Worker. Research: AI in Canadian immigration, Geography @ Ulaval. TTRPG nerd. B4: ICT for NGOs.

[G.A.B.-Estable #BLM #MMIW @gabestable]

Si tous les enfants ont droit à l’éducation, plusieurs élèves en situation de handicap ou en difficulté d'adaptation ou d'apprentissage (HDAA) sont scolarisé-es de façon partielle ou carrément renvoyé-es de l’école. Un fil 🧵 #DROITscolarisation #polqc #qc2022 #polqc2022 1/11

[El Jones @ElJonesPoet]

Apologizing for the Komagata Maru while refusing to let in families and students from Gaza.

[Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social @MarkKersten]

"It would be so nice if Canada did the right thing instead of being in their comfy seat as a middle power. Middle power doesn’t mean middle cowardice."

Francesca Albanese: 'It would be so nice if Canada did the right thing' on Gaza genocide: https://t.co/26QxFvFZQc @wendyakaur

[Raj Sharma KC @immlawyercanada]

Justice Tsimberis accepts the DoJ request to strike the Applicants Reply as it appeared to be AI generated and contained hallucinated case law. The Applicant was self represented but had a duty to 'self educate' and her explanation was shall we say less than sufficient in the eyes of the Court.

Sinkova v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2026 FC 650 (CanLII), <https://t.co/HkoUjltL1R>

[Muhannad Ayyash @AyyashMohannad]

In 1993, I saw international activists being severely beaten by Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem with batons. When the activists ran towards us, we ran with them and we all took cover inside the YMCA. Many were bleeding very badly.

This is not new. Israel has always been this way.

[Alex Cosh @AlexCosh_]

NEW: Global Affairs Canada met with a Canadian subsidiary of Israeli arms giant Elbit Systems 3 days before Parliament voted on a motion calling for an end to arms exports to Israel.

The Liberal government then pushed to water down the motion and did not initially apply restrictions to existing military exports.
https://t.co/uJh6vy8Ukp

[Alex Cosh @AlexCosh_]

The Maple has been barred from covering this arms fair and despite multiple follow ups the organizers have refused to provide an explanation.

Are they afraid someone might do journalism?

[Ryan Hart @thisdudelikesAI]

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking AI to write their breakup texts.

So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world.

What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used AI models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations.

The first thing they measured was how often AI agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the AI simply told you what you wanted to hear instead.

Then they pushed harder. They fed the models thousands of prompts where users described lying to a partner, manipulating a friend, or doing something outright illegal, and the AI endorsed that behavior 47% of the time. Not one model out of eleven. Not a specific version of one product. Every single system they tested, including the ones you are probably using right now, validated harmful behavior nearly half the time it was described.

The second experiment is the part that should genuinely disturb you. They had 2,400 real participants discuss an actual interpersonal conflict from their own life with either a sycophantic AI or a more honest one, and the people who talked to the agreeable AI came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person. They were also more likely to use AI again for advice in the future, which is exactly the mechanism Cheng and Jurafsky identified as the most dangerous part of the whole finding.

The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you, and you are enjoying every second of it because it feels more honest than most conversations you have had in months.
Jurafsky said it in a single sentence after the paper came out. Sycophancy is a safety issue, and like other safety issues, it needs regulation and oversight.

Cheng was more direct about what you should actually do right now. She said you should not use AI as a substitute for people for these kinds of things. That is the best thing to do for now.

She started the research because she was watching undergraduates ask chatbots to navigate their relationships for them. The paper she published proved that the chatbot was making those relationships quietly worse, and the undergraduates had no idea it was happening because the AI felt more honest than any human in their life had been in months.

[Tamara Mosher-Kuczer @TTRRMK]

Temporary public policy to exempt unaccompanied minors, in Canada, from having their claim for refugee protection determined ineligible to be referred to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada under the new ineligibilities https://t.co/6GcGQjU1mV

[Steven Meurrens @smeurrens]

In 2024 over 90% of litigation requests received by IRCC Beijing were writs of mandamus.

[Wei William (Will) Tao|陶维 @TheWillTruth]

Grateful to my client for bravely speaking out about this ongoing injustice for PGWP applicants. #cdnimm

[Raj Sharma KC @immlawyercanada]

"An employee held two full time positions in the Government of Canada."

Report on Misconduct and Wrongdoing at Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (Fiscal Year 2024-2025) - https://t.co/bTvolE0whx https://t.co/bcS8wFOYnJ

[Ravi Jain @RaviRandalJain]

A recent report has raised concerns about misconduct involving certain Canadian immigration employees, highlighting the importance of integrity, accountability, and public trust within Canada’s immigration system.

Transparency and fairness remain essential for applicants navigating complex immigration processes.

Read more: https://t.co/yf4gGbpvjk

#CanadaImmigration #IRCC #ImmigrationCanada #CanadianImmigration #ImmigrationLaw #Canada

[Raj Sharma KC @immlawyercanada]

Success for a long term resident of Canada at the JR for her H&C decision. Justice Thorne found (in part) the officers reasons irrational in the treatment of establishment in Canada (the main focus of the applicant’s submissions, including her 12 years in Canada and work as a health-care aide in long-term care during/after COVID) The Officer acknowledged positive factors (long residence, employment, skills, self-support, remittances, friends, and community ties) but then discounted them, essentially saying these are “things that anyone who has resided in Canada for a period of time might be likely to engage in.”

The Court called this irrational and a “no-win” situation for applicants: If you don’t integrate (skills, job, friends), you have no establishment.

If you do integrate, it’s dismissed as commonplace.

This approach misses the entire point of the establishment factor and functions as a veiled “exceptionality” test (which is legally incorrect). It also fails to explain why 12 years of demonstrated integration would be considered “significant” if the actual integration activities are disregarded.

Kaur v MCI 2026 FC 644

[Michael Bueckert @mbueckert]

Until now, Canada’s public debates on foreign influence have conspicuously excluded any discussion of Israel, despite its documented pattern of engaging in covert influence, deception, and racist disinformation. Our new report aims to end this double standard.

[Raj Sharma KC @immlawyercanada]

Helpful case law on s.40 IRPA misrepresentation.

Chater v Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2026 FC 588 (Pallotta J.), reaffirms Justice Zinn's decision in Idelfonso. In Chater the Court allowed judicial review and set aside a refusal for failure to disclose prior US visa refusals.

Key holding: Materiality cannot be presumed. The officer must explain *how* the omission could induce an error in the administration of the IRPA (not just boilerplate). Decision quashed & remitted to a different officer.

[Amarachi Okoroafor @AmarachiOkoroa1]

Are you a lawyer, or someone interested in AI regulation? @UNESCO, in collaboration with the @UniofOxford, has just launched a global course.

Register here: https://t.co/jHiMYZfda7

AI, Justice and the Rule of Law.

It is designed to equip judges, lawyers, policymakers, academia, and others with the requisite knowledge to navigate AI responsibly.

It goes further to talk about how AI affects access to justice and the Rule of Law.

It has 6 modules taught by 30+ global AI experts, with both graded and non-graded assessments. And of course, a reflective portfolio to work on.

At the end, if you pass at least 50%, you will be qualified for a globally recognized certificate.

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[Steven Meurrens @smeurrens]

IRCC seems like an intense place to work.

[Steven Meurrens @smeurrens]

Federal Court of Appeal rules that, when determining whether someone is criminally inadmissible to Canada, tribunals must consider defences recognized in Canadian law, including duress.

The Court of Appeal further held that while protecting Canadians is important, so too is maintaining procedural fairness and Canada's humanitarian posture. As such, requiring tribunals to assess whether a non-citizen is in fact a serious criminal does not materially undermine public safety.

https://t.co/akTdLDsYu3

[Mandeep Lidher @MannyLidher]

2024 CPC Edmonton PGWP team meeting notes:

• IRCC planned to remove the website direction telling applicants to submit PGWP validity remainder/extension requests on paper by October 2024

• The meeting notes also clarify that staff were allowed to use their phones to listen to music while working, as long as it did not impact productivity.

Despite this discussion, the IRCC website still continues to direct applicants to paper applications, even though clients are able to apply online and receive PGWP validity extensions.

#CanadaImmigration #CanadaVisa

[Alex Cosh @AlexCosh_]

Israeli forces deliberately murdered Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh 4 years ago today.

Canada’s Liberal government worked quietly behind the scenes to help Israel whitewash its responsibility for the killing. https://t.co/6htwfbZgPd