Over the next couple days Prime Minister Harper, President Obama, and President Calderon are meeting in Guadalajara [From Arabic, وادي الØجارة , “rocky riverbed”], Mexico for the North American Leaders’ Summit. The meeting is part…
Toronto City Council voted 21-17 this week to endorse a new contract with the 30,000 city workers who have been on strike for 39 days. And although the garbage is being picked up, a political…
Carleton prof fired for alleged terror role “This shows a total disregard for the presumption of innocence until proven guilty – and of academic freedom and due process. We’ve never seen anything like this at…
Toronto residents have been raising a big stink recently over the CUPE Local 416 strike recently, now entering its second month. The union’s president, Mark Ferguson, has indicated that if a decision is not reached…
On Thursday, Canada joined the EU, Brazil and Chile in demanding the withdrawal of tax credits in the U.S. for black liquor. The credits are estimated at $4-8 billion, passed in 2007, and intended for…
The Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear an appeal this past week of an Ontario Superior Court’s decision finding in Jeffrey Birch and April Luberti vs. the Union of Taxation Employees Local 70030, that…
Former Osgoode Hall law professor and Supreme Court justice, Madame Louise Arbour, recently completed a four-year term as the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights. She will take on the position of President and…
Omar posted a story on Slaw about a woman who called in sick (and apparently had to stay in the dark and couldn’t work on the computer) and was terminated after someone at her work…
In the current economic climate, companies big and small are feeling the stress of financial insecurity and reduced profits. As a result, more and more Canadians are finding themselves unemployed. This will likely lead to…
The Ontario legislature is set to reconvene tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. to introduce legislation that will force CUPE 3903 members back to work, bringing an end to the 80-day strike at York University. Premier Dalton…
Police are chasing a man in Cairns, Australia for breaking and entering into a store and stealing their toys. He’s suspected of several break-ins at a s similar store in the city. But these stores…
Dr. Daphna Golan, Professor of Law at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, explains in Haaeretz today why the academic establishment in Israel should oppose the Gazan assault, The students’ fight against the tuition increase, the lecturers’…
