Abdelrazik sues Ottawa for $27-million For every breach of right, there should be a remedy. When government officials taint themselves with torture, it is taxpayers who pay the remedy. But maybe not just taxpayers… Paul…
Polygamy charges tossed out Petti Fong writes: The province has had its hands tied with proceeding with charges for fear that if the polygamy law is struck down by a successful challenge under the Charter,…
Divisive terror law losing traction Can we trust secret evidence, often borrowed from foreign countries, to throw people out of Canada? Colin Freeze explains the security certificates: … federal ministers sign off on a certificate…
Click here for Part 1 Our courts couldn’t find any protection of private property from government action in the Charter. You can say that you don’t care because people like Kenk and Chatterjee are bad guys,…
Do you think you own your car? If the government convinces a judge that it’s more likely than not that your car is “tainted†with crime, the court can let the government take it from…
The decision that has the law world buzzing this weekend is the release this Friday of Abdullah Al-Kidd v John Ashcroft. The Plaintiff is an American-born citizen who converted to Islam while he was a…
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,…
MDs face scrutiny over duty to unborn Does an obstetrician have a duty of care to an unborn child? A Guelph hospital, citing a 2008 court decision that found a doctor had no such obligation…
Today’s Toronto Star profiled a Canadian lawyer who has taken on the Bush Administration through the ACLU, and was key in helping discover the torture memos. Jameel Jaffer, only 39 years old, was born in…
So keep them out of schools, bar them from employment in the public sector, and then prevent them from getting their own money from the bank? Someone is oppressing women here, it’s just not who…
Devon Moore of the Daily Kos features what he calls, a cesspool of some of the most vile hatred and misinformation on the internet… They range from academics such as Daniel Pipes, self-declared scholars like…
Ottawa mum in Kenya case Len Edwards, the deputy minister of foreign affairs, insisted yesterday that standing up for the rights of citizens abroad was “a rule” and “a work ethic” within the department.
