Liability for Dangerous Driving
Anil K. Kapoor of The Court has an excellent piece on the recent R v. Beatty decision, expounding on the distinction between criminal and civil liability in accidents. Mr. Beatty was charged with three counts…
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Lessons from Potential Blogging Libel Suit in Canada
Mark Evans, a former journalist for the National Post and technology blogger, reported on a libel suit launched by Toronto lawyer and political activist, Warren Kinsella. The freedom of expression is protected under s. 2…
Legal Teamwork
A Sweet Class-Action v. Chocolate
Eaten chocolate since February, 2004? Chances are you have. And that might make you eligible for this class-action lawsuit against chocolate manufacturers. Juroviesky and Ricci filed an action in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice…
Government Seems Skeptical About Science
Although Canada ranks as a top nation when it comes to scientific research, this just isn’t a characteristic shared by the Canadian government. An editorial in the journal Nature this week provided a scathing critique…
Martial Law in North America?
It’s possible, or at least NORTHCOM says so in a news release this month. …Americans can be assured the U.S. military is ready and capable of responding to attacks within the United States. But critics…
Dirty Diary Disclosed
James Michael Bomek, a sex offender and former lawyer in Sask., is on trial for obstruction of justice. Police found seven volumes of diaries that contained information on provincial court judge Terry Bekolay, a former…
Canada Still Complicit in DU
Colin Powell recently denied the harmful effects of Depleted Uranium (DU), which has been used in every major American conflict in recent years. InformationLiberation reports, Members of WeAreChange Ohio confronted former Secretary of State Colin…
Clinton/Obama… Ready or Not
Don’t Save Us Through Privatization
Lorne Gunter of the National Post commented yesterday on the Kawacatoose First Nation proposal for a private MRI service, For defenders of Canada’s government-monopoly health care system, there is only one goal that truly matters….
Patenting Mother Nature
Biomimicry, or engineering based on naturally occurring principles, is one of the newest emerging technologies in patent law. The Biomimicry Guild states, Life has been performing design experiments on Earth’s R&D lab for 3.8 billion…
You can Build Them, But They Won’t Always Come
The Galloping Beaver has an interesting post on a modern CIA-ops gone bad. Millions of dollars were spent setting up fake businesses. In Europe. To fight terrorism. Because investment bankers are behind it all, of…