Legal Aid to get a much-needed funding boost
After years of neglect, the Legal Aid system in Ontario has been scheduled for an overhaul. On Tuesday, Attorney General Chris Bentley will announce $150 million in new funding for Legal Aid, as well as…
Politics
How to Get Big Money Out of Political Campaigns
Liberal blogger Jeff Jedras (A BCer in Toronto) alerted me to Winnipeg Free Press article about the Conservatives’ latest plan to eliminate public financing of federal political parties. While both the article and Jeff’s reaction…
Access to justice and elected judges (conclusion)
(Part 1) So anyone demanding the election of judges should understand this: there is a conflict between accountability and impartiality. It’s often hard to get the judges both to be independent and to answer to…
Foreign state denies Canadians entry because of names
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.
Israeli Prof Thinks Boycott Only Way to Save Country
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…
Social Media at Federal NDP Convention 2009
I am currently in Halifax, Nova Scotia where I am attending the biennial federal convention of the New Democratic Party as a delegate for the Saint Boniface Riding Association. Our party’s last convention was in…
Conservative Toronto Lawyer Speaks Out on Mohamud
Reproduced with permission of the author Please accept my personal thanks for your recent public statement condemning the inexcusable treatment of fellow Canadian, Suaad Hagi Mohamud, by Canadian embassy staff in Nairobi, Kenya. The extremely…
Yale Press Bans Images of Muhammad
Infamous Muhammad Cartoons are decidedly not worth the fuss of re-publication according to dozens of experts consulted by Yale University and Yale University Press. As reported by New York Times columnist Patricia Cohen: So Yale…
Right-Wing Extremist Militias on the Rise in the U.S.
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…
North American Leaders’ Summit Kicks Off in Mexico
Over the next couple days Prime Minister Harper, President Obama, and President Calderon are meeting in Guadalajara [From Arabic, وادي الØجارة , “rocky riverbed”], Mexico for the North American Leaders’ Summit. The meeting is part…
Law is Cool top ranked again
A Dime a Dozen Political Blog ranks Law is Cool as one of the top 25 political blogs this summer. 1. http://www.michaelgeist.ca/ – pr7 – 182,020 2. http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/ – pr6 – 169,602 3. http://westernstandard.blogs.com/ – pr6 – 266,842 … 23. http://lawiscool.com/…
August 1: A Day Of Remembrance
This is part of the Middle Passage Law Series and is cross posted on Commercial Law International. Why am I wearing all black today? Am I in mourning? No, not exactly. Then why? Well it…