An article jointly written by David Shulman and Lawrence Gridin Last week the government of Québéc announced that it would restrict female Muslims from covering their faces with the niqab.  This article is about the fundamental…
Want to get lucky with a couple of Jewish guys? Those are words that will probably haunt several York students for the rest of their lives. On Sept. 6, 2007, many York University students were…
The Ontario Bar Association (OBA) Young Lawyers Division has an interesting article by Karen Perron of Merovitz Potechin LLP discussing an event they held with Wendy Wagner of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP and Ron Caza…
Food for thought: Is being a Jedi a sufficient “nexus with religion” (see Syndicat Northcrest v. Amselem, [2004] 2 SCR 551) to invoke freedom of religion protection? The Guardian reports of a Jedi Knight refused…
I recently presented this paper, A Trial to End All Terrorism: How the United States Could Have Won the War on Terrorism Before it Even Began, with the Trial of Only One Man at the…
For those intrigued by the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Sudanese elections may speak of things to come. As posted on Turtle Bay (a great Foreign Policy blog detailing the intricacies of the UN), the…
So what if Toronto became a province? Why would that be a bad idea? Regardless of the arguments for and against, Toronto can never become a province unless there is a lawful way to that…
It’s 2010. Twenty-eight years ago, Canadian lawyers helped draft the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, guaranteeing, among other things, gender equality before and under the law. Canadian lawyers have also drafted provincial and federal human rights acts, and…
From Queen’s Law:
When the Crown dropped drunk driving and cocaine charges against Rahim Jaffer, everyone seemed unhappy and suspicious. There was a lot more unity of opinion than when a Canadian woman was stuck in Africa because…
Commenter Lynne rightly points out that even we perhaps jumped to conclusions in the case of Philadelphia law student, Gerald Ung. In January, we linked to Above the Law coverage of Ung, who had been…
A recap of some of the recent tweets threatening President Obama with assassination: After the second one was informed that the authorities had been alerted, he stated: Nothing wrong? As several commentators have noted, 18…
