More on Omar Khadr
Report slaps CSIS over Khadr
Civil Rights
Racism not an issue in Courtenay, mayor says (post sponsored by advicescene.com)
Murder in German court
This woman is dead, and her husband is in critical condition in a hospital. A man accused of screaming “terrorist” and “Islamist whore” at her on a children’s playground, stabbed the woman, who was pregnant, 18…
Housing discrimination
Landlords trample on tenants’ human rights (post sponsored by advicescene.com)
The Right to Die
All law students come across the Sue Rodriguez case at some point, and the policy reason for forbidding assisted suicide — that it will be abused by caregivers. My Constitutional Law professor said it was…
Ottawa denies woman in Kenya is Canadian citizen
We wrote about Ms. Haji stuck in Kenya since May 17. Kenyan authorities alleged she wasn’t Ms. Haji at all. Saying she was someone else using Ms. Haji’s Canadian passport, they put her in jail….
Another Black Canadian stuck abroad
The Toronto Star reports Suaad Mohamud Haji, a woman from Toronto, cannot leave Kenya where she was visiting her sick mother. Kenyan officials allege she does not look like her Canadian passport photo. The photo is more…
Sarkozy Wants to Ban the “Burqa”
French President Nicolas Sarkozy stated this past week that he is interested in banning the “burqa,” The burqa is not a religious sign, it’s a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement — I want…
Do you have a right to marry a foreigner?
Not effectively. Not, if you want to stay in your own country, Canada. In that case, marrying a foreigner is a privilege granted by the government. The Star reports today about exorbitant refusal rates for…
Federal Court Slams CSIS (Again)
Pretty soon this won’t be news.
Mau Mau to sue the British Government
First Posted on Commercial Law International on June 24, 2009. By Charles Wanguhu The above move by the Kenyan freedom fighters to sue the British government has elicited some very interesting responses from some readers…
These Are Also My Country of a Kazakhstan
I agree with Simon Chester, Borat was a “silly film.” The real country of Kazakhstan is making headlines, and few people online are laughing. The parliament in that country has approved a new law that…