Kelly Toughill
Reporter
About Kelly Toughill
Kelly Toughill is an associate professor of journalism at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and founder of Polestar Immigration Research. She writes about Canadian immigration policy for National Observer and other media outlets. She is also editor and publisher of Polestar Student Immigration Network, a multilingual portal of news, information and digital tools designed to help international students navigate the Canadian immigration system. It is a subscription-based portal. You can read more of her work here. Kelly is accredited by the Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council and does limited volunteer work, but does not engage in individual immigration consulting.
Ahmed Hussen says overloaded immigration lottery is 'fair'
Canadian Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says an overloaded immigration lottery system is better than the policies that it replaced.
Federal immigration lottery backfires. Thousands of families left behind
Ottawa’s bid to improve the way extended families are reunited in Canada has backfired, leaving thousands of relatives upset and their lawyers frustrated.
EXCLUSIVE: Trudeau government broke privacy rules with expanded spy program
The federal government broke its own privacy rules this spring when it expanded the Five Eyes intelligence network to automatically share 1.2 million confidential Canadian files a year.
How Canada could share a million confidential files with expanded global spy network
The expansion of the so-called “Five Eyes” intelligence network was authorized under Canadian law earlier this month. Here's how it's going to work.
Canada just increased data sharing with international spy partners
Members of the 'Five Eyes' intelligence-sharing alliance will automatically provide data to one another that critics say could threaten refugees and others.