Criminals have found ways to bypass Canada’s multimillion-dollar electronic visa system intended to maintain national security and public safety, according to a federal report recently released by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). “Those with malicious intent, including associations with fraud and human trafficking/smuggling movements, have found workarounds,” according to the report titled “Evaluation of the Electronic Travel…

OTTAWA—Tighter border controls will come into effect Feb. 22, the prime minister said Friday, not to punish travellers but to try to keep everyone safe. Forcing new arrivals into a mandatory three-day hotel quarantine—at their own expense—and requiring a COVID-19 test when they get here is meant to help ward off new and more transmissible…

OTTAWA—Tighter border controls will come into effect Feb. 22, the prime minister said Friday, not to punish travellers but to try to keep everyone safe. Forcing new arrivals into a mandatory three-day hotel quarantine—at their own expense—and requiring a COVID-19 test when they get here is meant to help ward off new and more transmissible…

MONTREAL—Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says the federal government is doing enough at the border to protect Canadians from COVID-19. Blair told reporters today Canada’s border controls are some of the strictest in the world and that more than 98 percent of COVID-19 cases in the country are the result of community transmission—not international travel….