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A Trial to End all Terrorism

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…


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Goblins crave to eat the Charter

The Abdelrazik affair exposed some of Canada’s poorly known but in-your-face draconian laws. James Yap of Osgoode Hall Law School wrote a fantastic post about the federal United Nations Act and the United Nations Al-Qaida and…


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National security invoked to block testimony

Ottawa seeks to gag Afghan prisoner probe witnesses Federal lawyers are trying to block government witnesses from testifying before a military watchdog investigating the treatment of Taliban prisoners in Afghanistan, The Canadian Press has learned.


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Transparency sought in Afghan inquiry

Subpoenas issued to federal officials in Afghan prisoner inquiry A legal fight is looming over the federal government’s refusal to release information about alleged war crimes committed by the Canadian military. Murray Brewster writes for…