Mystery feet raise a stink in BC
For the past several months, severed human feet have been washing up on the shores of islands in British Columbia’s Georgia Straits. Reuters reports that a fourth such severed foot has been found. A passer-by…
Criminal Law
Online Legal Reporting Trumps CNN
The video is hard to turn away from. A sobbing 16-year-old sits in her bedroom and, staring into a camera, says she has been raped. This is how CNN covers a story of a 16-year…
SCC constitutionalizes diminished criminal responsibility for youths
If I have a theme for this week, I guess it would be “implied constitutional principles.” Following up on the California gay marriage ruling, I have another post today, this time from much closer to…
Freedom of hate speech
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Scalia Openly Condones Torture
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…
Global Terrorist Threat “Overblown”
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,…
Free Mumia – Not an American Gangster
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…
Free to Attack Marginalized Groups
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…
Wounder of Rivers Seeks Refuge in Canada
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…
Curry Bomb Newest Weapon Against Terrorists
The ‘War on Terror’ has a new arsenal in it’s fight – a curry bomb. India developed an 81mm grenade filled with pepper and phosphorus, intended to bring its target to their knees. But based…
How to Be a Good Lawyer
Honourable Associate Chief Judge Murray Sinclair speaks about his personal challenges while working in the criminal justice system.
“Evidence†Lacks any Substance and Reveals Nothing
Advocate for the Toronto 18, Beenish Gaya, writes in to us in response to our posting of Unfair Dealing, and sent us the following comments: Intro The trial of the only remaining youth in the…