Ontario Prostitution Laws Struck
I have to admit that when I first heard on AM980 that Justice Susan Himel stuck the prostitution laws for Ontario, I was a bit dismayed. Â Many people who think of prostitution think of the…
Politics
Police Powers and The G20: Why the Public Works Protection Act Was Unnecessary
In the following paper I advance the argument that the use of the Public Works Protection Act at the G20 by police was unnecessary and inappropriate. I suggest that they had ample existing authority under statute and common law to do the job they needed to do.
Rocking the Boat: A Brief History of Anti-Migrant Hysteria in Canada
They’re at it again. In November, 76 Tamil refugees escaped Sri Lanka on a rusty freighter. They arrived in Victoria, where they were met by RCMP and Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) officials, who promptly…
Lady Justice Marches in Pride
Check out the Liberal Minute by Jason Lamarche.
Stockwell Day Unicorn Poaching Unreported Crimes
Wikileaks exposes ‘unseen war’
Via Channel 4 News: Secret Afghanistan files: revealed for the first time The extraordinary leak made public by whistleblowers’ website Wikileaks has lifted the lid on more than 90,000 US military documents involving classified information…
Blame Harper for the G20
It may have been Toronto police on the streets, but the Feds ran the show.
Naomi Klein on G20
“There has been a very powerful attack on freedom of expression in this country. A McCarthyite campaign against people who fall outside of the Harper government’s version of what we should be saying or doing.”
Civil liberties suspended in Toronto during G20?
The G20 summit in Toronto has come and gone, but not before leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. Â I’m not just referring to all the shattered glass and burned out husks of police…
G20 Declaration
THE G-20 TORONTO SUMMIT DECLARATION June 26 – 27, 2010 Preamble 1. In Toronto, we held our first Summit of the G-20 in its new capacity as the premier forum for our international economic co-operation….
Secret Laws and Extraordinary Police Powers: G20
Normally, Canadians have the right to be left alone by police. Pedestrians generally don’t have to answer police questions and don’t have to identify themselves. They certainly don’t have to submit to searches by police….
‘If I Had a Billion Dollars’ I’d Build Toronto a Lake
Featuring Jennifer Smith and Lesley Stankaitis. Read about it at The Star.