Nomading in Canada? There's been a few changes
PLUS: More Airbnb bans
GLOBAL MOBILITY
🇨🇦 Canada wants proof your laptop money is foreign
Canada’s digital-nomad pitch just got a paperwork clause. Remote workers can still enter as visitors and work for foreign employers, but officers have been told to ask for proof that income is earned entirely outside Canada.
Derek Shank for CIC News
NOMAD HOUSING
🏘️ Florence takes the Airbnb ban outside the centre
The message to travel platforms is getting harder to miss: housing politics does not stop at the UNESCO line.
Reuters
REMOTE WORK
🤖 AI comes for the middle manager
Tech companies are flattening management layers while asking AI to pick up more of the coordination work. While the moves are expected to accelerate decision-making processes, they also could complicate jobs for everyone up and down the management chain, create new bottlenecks, reduce the benefits that stem from human interaction at work, and degrade a company’s products and services
Danielle Abril for The Guardian
P.S. The faster you answer, the higher you are on the leaderboard.
TECH
⛪ The Pope enters the AI borderlands
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical treats AI as the next industrial revolution: not a tech problem, but a power problem. His warning is aimed at work, war, truth, data, and the handful of companies shaping the new infrastructure of daily life.
Russell Contreras for Axios
FUTURE OF WORK
👶 Remote work became family policy by accident
New research from Italy suggests work-from-home contracts can blunt the motherhood penalty by keeping mothers attached to full-time work after childbirth. That is not the usual nomad fantasy of taking Zoom calls from a beach, but it may be the more durable remote-work argument. Flexibility looks less like a perk when it changes who gets to stay in the labour market.
Gaetano Basso, Maria De Paola, Salvatore Lattanzio, and Matteo Paradisi for CEPR
SEEN ON SOCIAL
🛂 Why are Schengen embassies still holding passports for weeks?
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia is changing the baggage allowance game with collectibles
National safety nets can work,
If you never leave your home country.
The traditional safety net was designed for people who were born, raised, and built lives in one place. Which was sensible, perhaps, in the last century.
Now people work across borders, live between jurisdictions, and discover that the old arrangement has a lot of holes that aren’t easily filled. Instead of stitching together products designed for an old, static world, we built a single system for people whose lives cross borders.
Nomad Citizen gives you the peace of mind to follow opportunity wherever it leads. It’s a global living safety net: protections for health, travel, and income in one integrated plan.
Build your life across borders on your own terms.