Despite the public attention that has been directed at copyright law recently, the issues surrounding the Charter right to freedom of expression have been absent from the public discourse. Â The matter was litigated last…
Prof. Michael Keefer, Professor of English at the University of Guelph, has a new article on the Toronto 18, where he says, The theatrical arrests of 18 (mostly young) Muslims in Toronto in the Summer…
Omar Ha-Redeye gave a talk on the use of social media in politics, focusing on the Canadian scene, at the Miles S. Nadal Management Centre in the Ernst & Young Tower of the Toronto Dominion…
Recently, our beloved facebook has decided to start policing the links that are posted to its members’ profiles. Citing “controversies” and “ongoing lawsuits”, facebooks has unilaterally decided that links to The Pirate Bay are now…
If you’ve been alive and on the Internet in the past year you would have read the obituaries – print newspapers are dead. Or dying, so they claim. Some are even claiming the recession with…
Following a trend of the erosion of privacy rights online, an Ontario couple who own a far-right website were ordered to disclose the names of eight anonymous posters related to a defamation lawsuit. The owners…
It would be an embarrassing surprise if you woke up one day to find that your personal website was now a dating service, or worse, selling porn or prescription drugs. Well that’s precisely what has…
It was only a matter of time before Canadian jurisprudence began to develop in response to privacy issues and the admissibility of documents associated with enormously popular social networking sites such as Facebook and MSN’s…
Earlier today Warren Kinsella pointed out that Steve Paikin’s The Agenda will be having a very interesting guest on their show. One who, without question, clearly promotes hatred for racial/ethnic minorities, the disabled, and the…
Ihsaan Gardee, The Calgary Herald December 14, 2008 Reproduced with the permission While Canadians hunker down for the festive season, bombarded by incessant shopping jingles and reruns of A Christmas Carol, many are also simply…
An update from a previous post. John Miller, a journalism professor, has a new reply for Mark Steyn. He challenges his characterization of quotes (a mistranslation of a mistranslation of an unverified quote), and asks…
Or, why academia matters Here is what Azim Nanjim, who was with Oklahoma State University at the time before moving to the University of Florida, says in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion,…
