Against assisted suicide
A few days ago the Canadian House of Commons rejected an assisted suicide bill. The proposed legislation would allow doctors to help terminally ill patients or people in unrelenting pain to end their lives. Currently,…
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April 28: Sanctions-busting Telethon for Abousfian Abdelrazik
The following message is from the email listserve of the People’s Commission Network, to which you can subscribe by sending an email to PeoplesCommissionNews-Subscribe@lists.riseup.net. ——– Sanctions-busting Telethon Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 From anywhere, between 7pm…
Iacobucci to Investigate on Detainee Documents
Former Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci was enlisted Friday to investigate whether the release of documents relating to Afghan detainee torture would cause an “injurious” effect. The release of these documents – which could prove…
The War on the Rule of Law
Olivia Ward of the Toronto Star says that history will judge the architects of the “War on Terror.” As the second decade of a broken century limps into view, some in the United States and…
Attn CSIS: American Airlines Flight 93 Doesn’t Exist
Justice Tremblay-Lamer of the Federal Court has quashed the controversial case against Adil Charkaoui, the alleged terrorist detained on a security certificate. In his 2004 case before the Federal Court, the government made submissions that…
OMG! Law Talk Episode 2
Law Blawgers Omar Ha-Redeye, Michael Carabash and Garry J. Wise return with Episode 2 of OMG! Law Talk. THIS WEEK ON OMG! – ·Google Juice ·Law Firm Public Relations Strategies ·Getting Legal Information Online ·Blogging…
The Disparity Between our Perceptions and our Actions
Chris Hedges is the author of Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, released this summer. He wrote the book before the economic meltdown, but foreshadowed some of the challenges…
Who pays when government wrongs
Abdelrazik sues Ottawa for $27-million For every breach of right, there should be a remedy. When government officials taint themselves with torture, it is taxpayers who pay the remedy. But maybe not just taxpayers… Paul…
Jameel Jaffer of ACLU is a Canadian!
Today’s Toronto Star profiled a Canadian lawyer who has taken on the Bush Administration through the ACLU, and was key in helping discover the torture memos. Jameel Jaffer, only 39 years old, was born in…
A Duty to Protect
Abousfian Abdelrazik, Omar Khadr and Suaad Hagi Mohamud all have something in common — they have faced, at one time or another, the federal government’s indifference to their intolerable circumstances. Our national legal community is…
Mau Mau to sue the British Government
First Posted on Commercial Law International on June 24, 2009. By Charles Wanguhu The above move by the Kenyan freedom fighters to sue the British government has elicited some very interesting responses from some readers…
These Are Also My Country of a Kazakhstan
I agree with Simon Chester, Borat was a “silly film.” The real country of Kazakhstan is making headlines, and few people online are laughing. The parliament in that country has approved a new law that…