Blame Harper for the G20
It may have been Toronto police on the streets, but the Feds ran the show.
July 2010
Audism and the Toronto Police Service
We have all heard the stories of the Toronto Police Services denying interpreters, accusing Deaf people of “faking”, interpreting attempts to communicate as violence, misunderstanding facial expressions that are a part of our grammar as…
OMG-20: Jon Stewart on G20
Check out Jon Stewart on the G20 at the Comedy Network.
The law of street protest in Canada
The events of the G20 weekend in Toronto raised important legal issues and exposed gaps in our law. Are street protests legal and when can the police break them up? Can the police have special…
Naomi Klein on G20
“There has been a very powerful attack on freedom of expression in this country. A McCarthyite campaign against people who fall outside of the Harper government’s version of what we should be saying or doing.”
Paikin on police attack against peaceful protest
Paikin: “There’s a distinction that needs to be made… This was not a great day for democracy in Toronto. I saw things I’ve never seen before, I saw things that shouldn’t have happened.”
Violent Protest or Agent Provocateurs?
Family Matters: When do Children Need Lawyers?
Trailer: The Response
Sig Libowitz was a law student at the University of Maryland School of Law, where he took a seminar titled “Homeland Security and the Law of Counterterrorism†with Professor Michael Greenberger. He was so intrigued…