I just received an invitation from someone on Facebook to join a group in support of making the Governor General of Canada an elected position. I understand that many left-leaning people are disappointed by Her…
Some readers are reporting difficulties with the site, so please be patient while we look into it. Update Problem seems to be resolved for now. It appears as if it may be from high traffic…
Ahmed Hussen, The Ottawa Citizen Reproduced with the permission of the author Foreign navies are not likely to be able to completely eradicate pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia — such as the audacious…
An update from a previous post. John Miller, a journalism professor, has a new reply for Mark Steyn. He challenges his characterization of quotes (a mistranslation of a mistranslation of an unverified quote), and asks…
Mr. Wisdom has pointed out how reliant we soon-to-be-lawyers are on technology. I, like him, cannot imagine living without CanLII, electronic library catalogs, and e-laws. However, there has always been an undercurrent of resistance to…
I didn’t realize the error of my ways until my professor blogged about it. Technology makes education work in ways we have to appreciate. I have on occasion tried to imagine what law school was…
Part of the Middle Passage Law Series ‘It’s always about slavery. It happened sooooo long ago, why not just get over it’ or ‘I am over it?’ Get over it, you say, get over it….
Or, why academia matters Here is what Azim Nanjim, who was with Oklahoma State University at the time before moving to the University of Florida, says in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion,…
Courtesy of Annie Scott of Gadling: 1. Australia – It is illegal to roam the streets wearing black clothes, felt shoes and black shoe polish on your face as these items are the tools of…
Mark Steyn asks us for help: I hope the Law Is Kool Aid guys are on to this: Mr. Steyn, I am afraid you have been punked by an Internet hoax. There is no “Mark…
Roger Mathus of Death by Email quotes Elizabeth Charnock, CEO of Cataphora on 10 things you should probably never write in an e-mail: “I could get into trouble for telling you this, but…” “Delete this…
Separatists make strange bedfellows. They take all your money, show you no respect, and when they threaten to leave they almost always mean it. In fact, the only thing worse than going to bed with…
