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The federal government plans to open four new passport pickup locations nationally as it struggles to manage lengthy wait times and backlogs that have plagued the application process for months now. The new application and pickup service will be available in Trois-Rivières, Que.; Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.; Charlottetown, P.E.I.; and Red …

If you’ve applied for a passport this year — or put it off because of the hours-long queues outside Canada’s passport offices — you might have wondered why it’s suddenly so hard to get hold of one of those little blue books. The federal government blames a sudden surge in passport applications, …

A prominent Chinese human rights scholar working in Vancouver says her career and personal safety are at risk because of an expired passport and delays in Canada’s immigration system. Guldana Salimjan is a postdoctoral fellow at Simon Fraser University, who also directs the University of British Columbia’s Xinjiang Documentation Project, …

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promising to do more to fix what he calls an “unacceptable” state of affairs at the country’s passport offices that have been overwhelmed in recent days as thousands of Canadians scramble to get their hands on the necessary documents before travelling abroad. Speaking to CBC Radio’s The …

Marie Soulier has spent four straight days standing in line outside the passport office at Montreal’s Guy-Favreau complex, waiting to collect her passport. She arrives at 5:30 each morning and leaves when the office closes. She is still waiting, and her flight leaves for France tonight. She is just one …

COPENHAGEN: Denmark is developing a digital “vaccine passport” for people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine, a move that may enable them to travel to countries where such documentation is required during the pandemic. “It is expected that there may be requirements from other countries to present vaccine documentation upon …