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Conference Agenda

Time

Topic

Panelists

7:30-8:00 (PDT)

8:30 – 9:00 (MDT)

10:30 – 11:00 (EDT)

11:30 – 12:00 (ADT)

30mins

Light breakfast

8:00 – 8:20 (PDT)

9:00 – 9:20 (MDT)

11:00 – 11:20 (EDT)

12:00 – 12:20 (ADT)

20mins

CARL opening remarks 

Update on Kanyinda

Aisling Bondy (CARL President, Bondy Immigration Law)

Panelist: TBD

8:20 – 9:20 (PDT)

9:20 – 10:20 (MDT)

11:20 – 12:20 (EDT)

12:20 – 1:20 (ADT)

60mins

Ethics

•         Practical advice on ethical dilemmas from practitioners 

Moderator: Kristin Marshall (Canada-US Border Rights Clinic) 

Panelists: Asiya Hirji (Downtown Legal Services), Sophie Demers (Aide Juridique), Heather Neufeld (Heather Neufeld Law)

9:20 – 9:50 (PCT)

10:20 – 10:50 (MDT)

12:20 – 1:50 (EDT)

1:20 – 2:50 (ADT)

30mins

IRPA s. 108

•         Best practices in responding to changes of circumstance in country conditions   

Moderator: Tania Princz-Lebel (Connecting Ottawa)

Panelist: Naseem Mithoowani (Mithoowani Waldman Immigration Law Group)

9:50 – 10:30 (PCT)

10:50 – 11:30 (MDT)

12:50 – 1:30 (EDT)

1:50 – 2:30 (ADT)

Lunch  

10:30 – 12:00 (PCT)

11:30 – 1:00 (MDT)

1:30 – 3:00 (EDT)

2:30 – 4:00 (ADT)

90mins

Internal Flight Alternatives

•         Review of recent case law
•         Use of social media in IFA arguments
•         Use of climate change in IFA arguments  

Moderator: Caitlin Thomas (Heather Neufeld Law)

Panelists: Anthony Navaneelan (Refugee Law Office), Rachel Bryce (Immigration Equality)

12:00 – 12:15 (PCT)

1:00 – 1:15 (MDT)

3:00 – 3:15 (EDT)

4:00 – 4:15 (ADT)

Break  

12:15 – 1:45 (PCT)

1:15 – 2:45 (MDT)

3:15 – 4:45 (EDT)

4:15 – 5:45(ADT)

90 mins

Recent updates affecting refugee law and refugee lawyers in the USA

Moderator: Anne-Cecile Khouri-Raphael

Panelists: Nicole Johnson (Deputy-Attorney in Charge, Immigration Law Unit - Legal Aid Society, New York), Jill Martin Diaz (Executive Director, Vermont Asylum Assistance Project), and Andrea Saenz (Senior Counsel, Cocounsel.org)

1:45 – 2:00 (PCT)

2:45 – 3:00 (MDT)

4:45 – 5:00 (EDT)

5:45 – 6:00 (ADT)

Closing remarks

TBC

In-person venues

Vancouver

Edmonton

Toronto

Ottawa

Montreal

Halifax

Immigration and Refugee Legal Clinic

Suite 810, 510 Burrard St, Vancouver, BC, V6C 3A8

Legal Aid Alberta

10123 - 99 St NW, Edmonton, AB, T5J 3H1

Munk School of Global Affairs

1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON M5S 3K7 (The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility 15)

Impact Hub Ottawa

123 Slater St. 6th floor, Ottawa, ON K1P 5H2

UQAM

201 Av. du Président-Kennedy, Montréal, QC H2X 3Y7 (Salle DS-4375)

McInnes Cooper Tower

Purdy’s Wharf, 13th Floor

Multipurpose Room

1969 Upper Water St., Halifax, NS B3J 3R7

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