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Strike Confirmed at York
Last night at around 11 p.m. the strike at York University was confirmed. The union began their strike today. Resources: Strike cancels classes at York University (The Star) Classes cancelled at York University as strike…
International Law Conference Tackles Tough Contemporary Issues
By Daisy McCabe-Lokos of Windsor Law. The Canadian Council on International Law held their 37th annual conference last weekend in Ottawa. The conference ran three days and showcased a range of panels discussing a variety…
Breasts are a Deadly Weapon
A Texan court just ruled that a woman’s breasts were a deadly weapon, defined as anything capable of causing serious or deadly injury. The 33 year-old woman was charged for indecent exposure when she took…
Fools Abound in Torts
“Chief Justice Rugg’s famous distinctions among negligence, gross negligence and recklessness as being distinctions among a fool, a damned fool, and a God-damned fool.†(Harvard Law Record, April 16, 1959.) h/t Dennis Jansen at No….
And the Layoffs Continue…
Jules Melnitzer comments on the Legal Post on the mass firings of lawyers in the U.S. Will it come to Canada if our economy goes their way too?
Gee Whizz. False Penises are Illegal?
A Federal Court in the U.S. charged the owners of Puck Technology with conspiracy to defraud the government under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The company produced prosthetic pensises called the…
Court Injunction Against Axel Kuhn in Etobicoke Centre
Incumbent Liberal candidate Borys Wrzesnewskyj didn’t enjoy his turkey last night. At least not the Conservative turkey he’s fighting, and claims has defamed his name based on attendance records. Wrzesnewskyj said, The Conservative candidate and…
May v. Duffy
It’s one of the few times when a title like that won’t be a legal case. Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party, took on television journalist Mike Duffy. Duffy suggests that May can say…
Top Twelve Contemporary Hate-Mongers
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) have released a report on the top twelve hate-mongers in the American media. Given the substantial American media content in Canada, there is direct relevance to civil rights here…
Credit-Related Derivatives are “Financial WMD’s”
American investor and philanthropist Warren Buffet calls credit-related derivatives a financial weapon of mass destruction, and he claims they just went off. Prof. Jesse Fried of Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley,…
10 Types of People on Facebook
We covered the types of stalkers and the use of social networks for lawyers previously. But our readers claimed that Facebook was the best client development network for them. Cracked has a new article on…