No Pardon for Karla Hamolka
No matter how good she scores on LSAT Karla Homolka wont be able to gain admission to law school until at least 2015. With the passing of the new Bill C-23A, Karla Homolka, the ex-wife…
Humans only
If you read Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey or saw the film, you must know who Hal is. Good. Keep that in mind while reading this. So… South Korea “deploys robots to detect…
Assault by Bubble Blowing
More G20 footage: This video shows a police officer at the G20 protests in Toronto threatening to arrest a protestor for blowing soap bubbles (“If one of those bubbles touches me, it’s assault”) and then…
Being Black in Toronto
Kwame McKenzie talks to Steve Paikin last night on being black in Boston, London, and Toronto. Kwame McKenzie is a Senior Scientist within the Social Equity and Health Research section of the Centre for Addiction…
Never Take an Unemployed Lawyer to a Spa
From Time Magazine: My mom is not a master of subtlety. So when she said, five different times, that the only thing she really wanted for her 65th birthday was to go away to a…
New Brochure on Righteous Among Nations
Earlier this year I pointed out how in the Western context hatred towards Muslims and Jews are usually linked, meaning someone harbouring hatred to one group is more likely to hate the other as well….
Supremacy of God and the Canadian Charter
Did you know that the “supremacy of God†is Canada’s founding principle? Read the Canadian constitution, if you don’t believe me. This is the preamble to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: “Whereas Canada…
Ottawa shoots itself in the foot in the Khadr case
There is a dramatic development in the Khadr story. A Federal Court judge ordered the government to do something about Omar Khadr, and the government has seven days to comply. Justice Zinn handed down his…
Blame Harper for the G20
It may have been Toronto police on the streets, but the Feds ran the show.
Audism and the Toronto Police Service
We have all heard the stories of the Toronto Police Services denying interpreters, accusing Deaf people of “faking”, interpreting attempts to communicate as violence, misunderstanding facial expressions that are a part of our grammar as…
OMG-20: Jon Stewart on G20
Check out Jon Stewart on the G20 at the Comedy Network.
The law of street protest in Canada
The events of the G20 weekend in Toronto raised important legal issues and exposed gaps in our law. Are street protests legal and when can the police break them up? Can the police have special…