Creating a Legal Storm US Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia, made his first major television appearance this week on 60 Minutes. Previously he has severely restricted media access, especially in his court, citing his, First…
Don’t believe the hype Twenty years ago the classic Hip Hop group, Public Enemy, said in their hit song, Some media is the whack You believe it’s true, it blows me through the roof Suckers,…
Fry That What? The case of Mumia Abu Jamal, on death row in Pennsylvania for killing a white police officer in 1981, is raising some interesting issues surrounding jury selection. The court found that the…
The Ahenakew affair: a bad law, an opportunity missed By Marjaleena Repo The David Ahenakew Affair, after five years in the courts, has sprung back with full force after the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations…
That’s what a cemetary in Copenhagen is proposing. They’ve set aside a specific area of the cemetary for gay people, based on requests of a gay advocacy group called Regnbuen (Rainbow). Matt Guerrin disagrees. Read…
Although the OHRC decided not to hear the complaint against Maclean’s, they have issued a strong condemnation of Islamophobia in the media. The Human Rights Code in Ontario covers: (1) goods, services and facilities (2)…
Rabbi Elior Chen fled Israel to hide in Canada. Not because he was being persecuted in his country of origin, as so many others do, nor was he claiming to flee a war-torn area. Chen…
We previously commented on Canadian use of Depleted Uranium (DU) and legal issues related to it. But DU is making the news again, this time in California. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has received a…
Steve Sailer, a Conservative American journalist, found out the hard way that we don’t. He completed the Citizenship and Immigration Canada Self-Assessment Worksheet in 2001 and scored 61 points. The passing mark for consideration of…
The largest Canadian Constitutional class-action suit in currently under scrutiny. Background Following M. v. H (1999), the Canada Pension Plan (1985) (CPP) was amended in 2000 to include survivor benefits for same-sex couples to comply…
Justin Morris, a member of the Ryerson University Conservative Club, sent an e-mail to Heather Kere, the vice-president of education at Ryerson. But Kere is also a member of the United Black Students of Ryerson….
CLC Report Tomorrow is International Women’s Day, and in commemoration the Canadian Labour Congress released a report on gender equity in the workforce with some surprising findings, Strikingly, the pay gap has grown rather than…
