The federal government announced a plan to help immigrants get their foreign credentials recognized. At the heart of this plan is a deal between Ottawa and the provinces to speed up professional licensing applications filed…
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The expense of a professional school education to study law represents a significant investment. For many of us, that investment has required substantial aid in the form of student loans – both public and private….
Usually, the police raids crack houses and gang hideouts in Toronto. Last Thursday, November 26, 2009, officers descended on the Toronto Humane Society, a 118-year-old charity sheltering abandoned cats and dogs. Some of the most…
We’re all increasingly dependent on technology. And as much as we love our portable Blackberrys and iPods, for serious work we usually need an actual computer – a laptop at the least. The new Kohjinsha…
Humane society president denies charges Jesse McLean and Lesley Ciarula Taylor write for the Toronto Star: Charged with animal cruelty in a surprise raid, the president of the Toronto Humane Society said Friday the accusations were…
Antonella Artuso of the Toronto Sun reports: A tough-talking attorney general says he’s prepared to take “whatever actions are required” as criminal defence lawyers consider expanding their boycott of legal aid. Attorney General Chris Bentley…
The Supreme Court of Canada has decided that it will hear an expanded list of “errors in law” that helped to convict serial killer Robert Pickton’s appeal. Full story
Father was never charged with war crime, family says The family of Helmut Oberlander says he was never a Nazi and he has not been charged by the federal government with any war crime.
Issue 47:2 of Osgoode Hall Law Journal has just been published. It includes my review [pdf]Â of Stephen C. Neff’s War and the Law of Nations: A General History.
Vancouver Sun » “The IOC is accountable to no one — as female ski jumpers now know“: When the B.C. Court of Appeal tossed out the complaint from the female ski jumpers last week, it…
Nanny wins landmark suit after Star investigation A foreign caregiver brought to Canada with a job offer from a “ghost employer” has been awarded $10,000 in damages in what is believed to be the first…
