CBA Joins Fight to Repatriate Omar Khadr
The Canadian Bar Association has announced that it is joining with a number of other agencies to fight for the repatriation of Omar Khadr to Canada. Omar Khadr, a 15-year-old boy at the time of…
Politics
The Solution is Insite
With an unabating drug epidemic and the winds of political change in the air, interest is growing in the United States for a less punitive and more liberal war on drugs. One battle in this…
Man Suing God Unsuccessful
Just over a year ago we covered Senator Ernie Chambers, the man suing God for making terrorist threats. The case was tossed out this week. But the point of Chambers’ suit, to demonstrate that anyone…
Students Systemically Denied the Right to Vote
Surely the most important story of Tuesday night’s election was the record low turnout, estimated at 59.1%. So low was the turnout that the Conservatives, Liberals, Bloc Québecois, and NDP all lost votes in absolute…
Lowest Voter Turnout in Canadian History
We’ve Never Been This Bad Before The voter turnout last night in the Canadian Federal elections is estimated at 58% to 59.1%. It breaks the all-time record low of 61% in 2004. This excludes the…
So…
I guess Peter Kent is pretty much guarenteed a cabinet post. Let’s say Minister of Canadian Heritage.
Court Injunction Against Axel Kuhn in Etobicoke Centre
Incumbent Liberal candidate Borys Wrzesnewskyj didn’t enjoy his turkey last night. At least not the Conservative turkey he’s fighting, and claims has defamed his name based on attendance records. Wrzesnewskyj said, The Conservative candidate and…
Harper Will Seek to Dilute Ontario Vote Even Further
We’ve addressed the issue of vote dilution early last year on this site. Errol Mendes of UofO Law elaborated on the problem in an opinion piece in The Star today. He covers a bill that…
Green Party Website Hacked!
The website of the Green Party of Ontario was hacked last Friday. Â Malicious hackers have put up a blog post mocking GPO leader Frank de Jong, by impersonating him and putting ridiculous words in his…
May v. Duffy
It’s one of the few times when a title like that won’t be a legal case. Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party, took on television journalist Mike Duffy. Duffy suggests that May can say…
Min. Flaherty “Harsh” on U.S. Economy
Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty spoke at UWO Law today. Coverage of the event can be found on CBC, Canadian Press, and Reuters. He claimed that the Canadian economy was in better shape than the…
Federal Election Strategic Voting Tool
With the federal election just two weeks away, many are still scrambling to decide which name they should tick off on the ballot. A friend of mine turned me on to an interesting Google Maps…