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…
I have previously expressed my shame at the Canadian Government’s failure to follow the example of every other Western nation in demanding the repatriation of our citizen at Guantanamo Bay. The advocacy in favour of…
“Human rights have a dysfunctional relationship with justice. The language is certainly beautiful, but it’s all dressed up with nowhere to go,†charged Dennis Edney in a scathing lecture at the Faculty of Law at…
There is a dramatic development in the Khadr story. A Federal Court judge ordered the government to do something about Omar Khadr, and the government has seven days to comply. Justice Zinn handed down his…
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…
WikiLeaks, the whistle-blowing website that provides confidential and sensitive documents for free to the media, human rights groups and the public, has been deemed a threat by the US Army. WikiLeaks has been responsible in…
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…
Abousfian Abdelrazik, Omar Khadr and Suaad Hagi Mohamud all have something in common — they have faced, at one time or another, the federal government’s indifference to their intolerable circumstances. Our national legal community is…
By Krystalline Kraus Published on rabble.ca (http://www.rabble.ca), reproduced here on author’s request Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney have the political power to decide who they want to let…
Reproduced with permission of the author. By Krystalline Kraus [1] When you accuse anyone of war crimes, you’d better be sure you have the evidence to back it up; such an accusation is the equivalent…
Note: This piece was subsequently published on March 26, 2009 in the StarPhoenix. Available online here Due process is a long-standing Canadian principle. It is enshrined in our legal tradition as a safeguard against the…
In response to President Obama’s move yesterday, the Conservative government of Canada is finally reconsidering its position on Omar Khadr, Canadian citizen being detained at Guantanamo Bay. Canada remains the only industrialized nation to not…
