What can the mayor of Toronto really do?
Toronto will go to the polls to elect its mayor on October 25 this year. There is a lot of media interest in mayoral candidates and scandals surrounding some of them. The incumbent mayor, David…
elections
Law and chance
The boy who would be mayor Anna Mehler Paperny writes for the Globe and Mail: Mr. Coombs, who lives with his parents in Paradise and commutes to Memorial University in St. John’s, won the first…
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…
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…