In the report presented to the Police Services Board on April 22, Nazi is listed as one of the 27 identified victim groups targeted in hate-motivated criminal acts in 2009.
From my blog: Simon Says. Category: Police Myths Prompted by one of the comments to my blog post, Is is legal to pass on a solid yellow line?, I will be writing today about whether…
From my blog: Simon Says. Category: Police Myths. Another question I was asked frequently during my time as a police officer is, “Does the officer have to show you the number on the Radar they…
From my blog, Simon Says. Category: Police Myths I don’t know how many times I’ve heard people say that a police officer can’t give you a ticket if they’re not wearing their hat or if…
While cramming a treatise for my last 1L exam, I came across a quote from the Law Reform Commission of Canada. The report titled Our Criminal Law was released in 1976, but it is just…
An old cliché says that a car gives freedom. But if freedom means the absence of state intrusion in our personal choices, then that cliché is plain wrong. Drivers are less free than pedestrians or…
An article jointly written by David Shulman and Lawrence Gridin Last week the government of Québéc announced that it would restrict female Muslims from covering their faces with the niqab.  This article is about the fundamental…
Want to get lucky with a couple of Jewish guys? Those are words that will probably haunt several York students for the rest of their lives. On Sept. 6, 2007, many York University students were…
When the Crown dropped drunk driving and cocaine charges against Rahim Jaffer, everyone seemed unhappy and suspicious. There was a lot more unity of opinion than when a Canadian woman was stuck in Africa because…
Commenter Lynne rightly points out that even we perhaps jumped to conclusions in the case of Philadelphia law student, Gerald Ung. In January, we linked to Above the Law coverage of Ung, who had been…
A recap of some of the recent tweets threatening President Obama with assassination: After the second one was informed that the authorities had been alerted, he stated: Nothing wrong? As several commentators have noted, 18…
Interesting post at Persuasive Authorities on the implications of Holder v. The Humanitarian Law Project and Al-Haramain v. Bush, These two cases raise some serious issues for lawyers and law professors who provide legal opinion,…
