Stripping of citizenship
Accused war criminal wins chance to keep citizenship An appeal court has ordered the federal cabinet to revisit its decision to strip accused Nazi war criminal Helmut Oberlander of his Canadian citizenship.
Administrative Law
Lobbyism
Ottawa tightening rules on lobbyists Susan Delacourt and Richard Brennan write for the Toronto Star: The federal government is cracking down on lobbyists working for Crown corporations and institutions such as the Toronto Port Authority and…
Belief in global warming protected from discrimination in UK labour law
Image From National Post via WattUpWithThat? In the public policy debates over climate change, critics of strong action to mitigate global warming have often described proponents as “religious zealotsâ€, and vice-versa. Moreover, since the concern…
Mistakes
Woman declared dead gets apology Ms. Towle, a resident of Kamloops, B.C., was somehow declared dead by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada in September. “This is an unfortunate situation, which we are diligently working…
Access to information
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…
Withler We Go From Here: The Future of Pension Reform
Western Law hosted a forum on pension reform this past Thursday, featuring community leaders, legal academics, and practitioners. Pension Plan Basics Prof. Robert Brown of the University of Waterloo explained some of the basics behind…
Visitor visa fairness
When visa’s rejected, where to go? Nicholas Keung writes for the Toronto Star: A grieving son in China rejected for a visitor’s visa to Canada for his mother’s funeral. Guests from the Philippines turned away…
Former airline hijacker, Windsor law graduate
Former terrorist wants to be lawyer John Goddard writes for the Toronto Star: Parminder Singh Saini, 46, blames youth and naïveté for his role in a violent airline hijacking 25 years ago in his native…
AG Ont. Chris Bentley Speaks on Human Rights
The Attorney-General of Ontario, Hon. Chris Bentley, spoke to students at the University of Toronto on the issue of human rights. Min. Bentley did a podcast interview with us previously on a similar subject.  Human…
Athanasios Hadjis Rules in Lemire v. Warman
In the high profile case between Marc Lemire and Richard Warman, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has refused to apply s. 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which stated that hate messages also affected,…
Problems finding rental housing?
Rights commission targets `blatant discrimination’ in rental-housing market There’s obvious discrimination in rental housing, says the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s annual report released yesterday, identifying the problem as a key area that needs immediate intervention.
A Duty to Protect
Abousfian Abdelrazik, Omar Khadr and Suaad Hagi Mohamud all have something in common — they have faced, at one time or another, the federal government’s indifference to their intolerable circumstances. Our national legal community is…