The report by Justice Richard Goldstone on the Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, released yesterday, is raising some interesting legal questions. The report concluded that both Israel and the Palestinians had committed war…
Click here for Part 1 Our courts couldn’t find any protection of private property from government action in the Charter. You can say that you don’t care because people like Kenk and Chatterjee are bad guys,…
Subpoenas issued to federal officials in Afghan prisoner inquiry A legal fight is looming over the federal government’s refusal to release information about alleged war crimes committed by the Canadian military. Murray Brewster writes for…
Today’s Toronto Star profiled a Canadian lawyer who has taken on the Bush Administration through the ACLU, and was key in helping discover the torture memos. Jameel Jaffer, only 39 years old, was born in…
So keep them out of schools, bar them from employment in the public sector, and then prevent them from getting their own money from the bank? Someone is oppressing women here, it’s just not who…
Ottawa to launch Supreme Court appeal of Khadr ruling The federal government will go to the Supreme Court of Canada to appeal a court order to bring Omar Khadr home from a U.S. military prison,…
Israel targets Palestinian-Canadians Since Americans appearing to have Palestinian heritage are hit also, the US Administration is twisting Israelis’ arms to change the policy. Predictably, the Canadian government is silent.
Prof. Neve Gordon of Ben-Gurion University, a third-generation Israeli who suffered severe war wounds resulting in physical disabilities, has come out with a strange proposition. The only way that Israel can save itself from what…
Here’s some good news for you incoming 1Ls. Canada’s recent constitutional decisions by the Supreme Court are so complicated and contradictory, that even the experts cannot identify the overarching principles. Prof. Ed Morgan of UofT…
Abousfian Abdelrazik, Omar Khadr and Suaad Hagi Mohamud all have something in common — they have faced, at one time or another, the federal government’s indifference to their intolerable circumstances. Our national legal community is…
A Muslim woman has been banned from using public swimming pool due to wearing a head-to-toe Burqini. French officials claimed that the ban was due to strict hygienic policies practiced in France and was not…
It might just be that the War on Terror will have to begin at home. Eileen Sullivan of Associate Press states, The stress of a poor economy and a liberal administration led by a black…
