Judge orders CSIS to hand over file Bill Curry writes for the Globe: The Federal Court is ordering Canada’s spy agency to disclose a second human source in the Mohamed Harket case, an exceptional decision…
White-collar criminals face new sentences Campbell Clark writes for the Globe and Mail: The federal government will legislate two-year minimum sentences for big-money frauds of more than $1-million, seeking to assuage an outcry over a…
Ottawa to seek top court ruling on single securities regulator Unlike the US, Canada doesn’t have a national securities regulator. Canadian constitution is somewhat equivocal in its division of powers between provinces and Ottawa. It…
The UK government has published an interactive map to help illustrate the potential effects of climate change. Act on Copenhagen is the official website in preparation for the successor to the Kyoto Protocol, where governments…
Sometimes it takes a midterm to realize we’re back in school. This creative video comes to you from Gavin Holder, a 3L at Windsor Law.
Some of us were still having a hard time figuring it out, even after companies law.
Montreal Mafia controls 80 per cent of road contracts, whistleblower says “There is a group that controls contracts on [Montreal] Island, passing them around, one after the other, we call them the Fabulous Fourteen,†said…
Judge formally strikes down security certificate against Charkaoui Charkaoui is a landed immigrant who was arrested in Montreal in 2003 under security-certificate legislation that allows Canada to expel foreign-born individuals if they are considered a…
Does diversity matter in the legal profession? And if so, what is the current status of diversity in major Canadian law firms? Canadian Lawyer is focusing the subject in the October issue. Gail Cohen looks…
Ottawa sued over censorship of Tommy Douglas dossier Steve Rennie writes: The federal government is being taken to court over its decision to withhold hundreds of pages, some decades old, in the Mounties’ secret file…
Father suffocated sons, stabbed daughter, murder trial told Another case where mental illness is at issue. Perhaps, if we as a society spent more money on diagnosis, treatment and care of the mentally ill, we…
Terror 18 leader pleads guilty Isabel Teotonio writes for the Toronto Star: Zakaria Amara, 24, confessed to participating in or contributing to the activity of a terrorist group and intending to cause an explosion that…
