by Fathima Cader and Sumayya Kassamali Ten years after September 11, 2001, the term “Islamophobia,” once largely obscure, has become all but inevitable when discussing contemporary politics. As Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden became household…
“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…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OTTAWA, May 13, 2011 – The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada, announced today that Justice Ian Binnie and Justice Louise Charron have written to the Minister of Justice, the…
See below for an initiative by Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Equity & Diversity Pre-Law Internship Program Proposal Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (the “Firmâ€) has a strong commitment to providing legal services in a…
Audrey Macklin and Lorne Waldman explain the concept of judicial independence to Jason Kenney: “In a speech to the University of Western Ontario’s law faculty last week, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney launched an attack on…
IHRA joins International Coalition Intervening to save Vancouver Safe-Injection Site: An international coalition of harm reduction experts — comprised of the International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA), the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, and CACTUS Montréal —…
Funding orders must be exceptional, says the Supreme Court: ‘For the first time the Supreme Court has ruled that superior courts are empowered to order governments to fund public interest litigation before statutory courts and…
What makes this ruling is significant is that a high court is here recognising that the detention camps in which refugees are held in the West can themselves be inhumane to the point of that…
In a unanimous decision in October 2010, the Ontario Court of Appeal affirmed that a sexual assault complainant may wear a niqab, a Muslim facial veil, while testifying. The Muslim Canadian Congress had intervened on…
The 2010 Canadian Law Blog Awards are out! Law is Cool was a finalist for the Legal Culture Award. In the past, we won the Legal Culture Award in 2009 and 2007, and were finalists…
Are you a progressive law student in Canada? Join the Justice League! Justice League-Canada is a nationwide listserv for progressive law students, articling students, and new calls. Its purpose is to create a national grassroots…
Can you blame people if their response to this kind of news is cynicism? CSIS tapped phone despite order Agents violated solicitor-client privilege, recorded 171 calls involving accused terrorist By Andrew Duffy, The Ottawa Citizen…
