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50-year immigration wait stuns lawyers and families, but IRCC says it’s no mistake

Processing times for Canadian immigration applications have reached unprecedented lengths — up to 50 years under some permanent residency programs — stunning applicants and lawyers who say the system has become unviable. “We were shocked,” said Olha Kushko, whose family fled Kyiv and settled in Ottawa in 2023 under the …

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Polygamist leader Samuel Bateman draws 50-year sentence for efforts to coerce women, girls into sex

A polygamist religious leader who claimed more than 20 spiritual “wives” including 10 underage girls was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Monday in Arizona for coercing girls as young as nine years old to submit to criminal sex acts with him and other adults, and for scheming to …

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