Health Canada Bans Homosexual Organ Donations
Where is the Announcement? Health Canada has enacted new rules at the end of 2007 prohibiting organ donation from homosexual males. But the CBC reports that as of this week, those in the organ donation…
Black Anti-Gun Control
Opposition to gun control is typically associated with lobby groups such as the NRA, largely comprised of white Conservatives. Some bloggers suggest that NRA even put out this publication, described as depicting …people of Asian,…
They ♥ Huckabee
Preserve our National Igloo Right now our neighbours to the south are selecting the candidates who will run in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. A man named Mike Huckabee has upset the conventional wisdom by…
The ICC and the DRC
Part of the International Conflicts series Introduction In 2004, the International Criminal Court started to get involved in the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, when it was referred to the Prosecutor of…
Murphy Challenges Steyn on Human Rights
M.J. Murphy of BigCityLib blog challenges Mark Steyn to be consistent in his critique of Human Rights Commissions when they rightly target hate speech found in other quarters. Other Liberal bloggers have made similar comments…
The Oakes Test and Human Rights Tribunals
Levant on Anti-Homosexual Pastors In an article in the National Post titled, Drug dealers get the benefit of the Charter, but not pastors accused of homophobia, Ezra Levant, founder of the Western Standard and currently…
2007 International Privacy Ranking
Privacy International and Electronic Privacy Information Center recently published their 2007 privacy rankings of the state of surveillance and privacy protection in 70 countries. Prof. Simon Fodden of Osgoode Hall comments on Slaw, Clearly intended…
Hatred and Contempt Under the Canadian Human Rights Act
Hatred on the Internet Section 13(1) of the Canadian Human Rights Act (“the Actâ€) makes it a discriminatory practice for a person or group of persons to communicate by means of the Internet, material that…
My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad…
Anver Emon on Honour Killings
Anver M. Emon of the UofT Faculty blog shares an editorial he published in the National Post recently on the case of Aqsa Pervez. As a professor of Islamic law, I teach my students about…
Blogging Heads: Liberty vs. Security
Jack Balkin of Yale Law School, blogger at Balkinization, and author of Cybercrime, speaks with Eric Posner of the University of Chicago Law School on the balance between liberty and security. The New York…
Minorities in the Legal Ivory Tower
Some Positive Signs Prof. Jeffrey Harrison of the University of Florida College of Law asked almost exactly a year ago whether Race, Class and Diversity adversely affects the possibility of tenure for minorities in law….