The Toronto Star, among others, reports that Omar Khadr’s lawyers have launched a suit against the Canadian government to try and force the repatriation of their client. The illegality of Khadr’s detention at Guantanamo Bay…
Susan Drummond, professor of family law at Osgoode Hall, finally weighed in yesterday on the polygamy issue. She claims that if fully prosecuted many individuals, including herself, would be guilty. There is a general rumbling…
(Via International Law Reporter) José Ernesto Medellín (the subject of International Court of Justice Cases) is scheduled to be executed today at 6pm in Texas. In the flurry of briefs surrounding Medellín petition for writ…
by Hicham Safieddine and Diana Younes Development of violence among the colonized people will be proportionate to the violence exercised by the threatened colonial regime Frantz Fannon A lot of ink has and is being…
This past week, I had the opportunity to check out the Oscar-winning detainee torture documentary Taxi to the Dark Side. The film was written and directed by Alex Gibney, of Enron: The Smartest Guys in…
See what The Stormy Days of March thinks.
On June 28 2008, the Canadian Human Rights commission dismissed the complaint against Maclean’s magazine (Rogers Media) concerning an article by Mark Steyn, and rightly so. (The complainants held that the article, among others, established…
There are up to 350,00 Lesbians that are not gay. Some of them are not seeking same-sex rights, but the protection of the word “lesbian” as a unique identifier of the inhabitants of Lesbos. “My…
It’s true, we’ve heard this before. The Missing Sockpuppet compares the case of Abrams v. North Shore Press at a B.C. human rights tribunal to the complaint against Maclean’s. The similarities are uncanny. So why…
(Via Jacob Katz Cogan at International Law Reporter) It’s received almost no coverage in the US, but Representative Howard L. Berman (D-California) has presented a bill to complement the International Court of Justice’s decision in…
Early yesterday morning, the Canadian government, in compliance with court orders, released a video of Omar Khadr’s interrogation by Canadian Security and Intelligence Service agents at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The video, which is the first…
Below is a letter that I have written to Mr. Harper to protest the Canadian government’s treatment of Omar Khadr, one of its citizens. If you are not familiar with the story, you can find…
