According to media reports on Friday, the federal privacy commissioner approved the see-through airport body scanners. These machines show your naked body in Casper-the-ghost 3D on the security officer’s screen. Although the officer can easily see if…
The push and pull of Ontario’s Police watchdog, the Special Investigations Unit, continues after  Toronto Police Service Association Union President Mike McCormack suggests. It was only last year that the Ontario Ombudsman’s Office headed by…
Omar Khadr case cost Ottawa $1.3 million Allan Woods and Michelle Shephard write: Ottawa has spent more than $1.3-million fighting against Toronto-born captive Omar Khadr, who has been held at the U.S.-run Guantanamo Bay detention centre…
The Canadian Press reports: B.C. introduces law blasted by critics as means to hide homeless for Games The B.C. government introduced a controversial law Thursday that will allow police to take homeless people to shelters…
Guest post by Krystalline Kraus, reproduced from Rabble with permission. With the war in Iraq still ongoing and the conflict in Afghanistan going from bad to worse, who is paying the price? Can success be…
The arrival in Vancouver by boat two weeks ago of 76 refugees from Sri Lanka has triggered a predictable wave of paranoia and xenophobia, not the least of which has come from our own Ministry…
Omar Khadr Omar Khadr ‘innocent’ in death of U.S. soldier Michelle Shephard writes for the Toronto Star: Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr was buried face down under rubble, blinded by shrapnel and crippled, at the time…
By Krystalline Kraus, reproduced with permission The battle to keep U.S. Iraq war resisters in Canada has been ongoing since January 2004 when Jeremy Hinzman first arrived in Canada and filed a refugee claim as…
special contribution by Faraz Siddiqui Toronto, Oct 28th: In what seems to be a rising fad, a Canadian Muslim organization has asked the federal government to ban woollen socks from public spaces. According to a…
I’ve already posted about PIVOT’s and the BC Civil Liberties Association’s mobilisation around Vancouver’s stringent (and possibly unconstitutional) anti-dissent Olympic laws. It now appears that UBC students (undergrads, I think) are now also taking it…
‘Brazen’ driver guilty in crash Bob Mitchell writes for the Toronto Star: On June 3, 2006, the Radmans were critically injured when their Pontiac Sunfire was hit by a Porsche which had gone out of…
From the October 2009 issue of Amicus Curiae Many law students find law school to be so painful that few can understand or relate when I say I actually enjoy the ordeal. They would probably…
