What does law school cost in Canada? Maclean’s magazine has the stats: Common Law Schools Tuition Canadian Students Tuition International McGill $2,068 /$5,668* $21,600 Moncton $4,920 $8,343 Dalhousie $7,883/$8,905* $16,426 Saskatchewan $8,070 $20,982 Victoria $8,341…
The March 8th 2010 issue of Maclean’s, “Canada’s magazineâ€, has this to say about the Conservative government’s elimination of two-for-one credit for pre-sentence custody: Do the time “It seems like a no-brainer: convicted criminals shouldn’t…
Media aren’t the best friends of human rights Max Yalden was an Official Languages Commissioner in 1977-84 and the head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission in 1987-96. Recalling the Maclean’s case and other contentious…
An abridged version of this piece was published today in the Toronto Star. Reproduced here for interest with permission of the author, all rights reserved. Veils and justice February 04, 2009 Faisal Kutty Here they…
Ihsaan Gardee, The Calgary Herald December 14, 2008 Reproduced with the permission While Canadians hunker down for the festive season, bombarded by incessant shopping jingles and reruns of A Christmas Carol, many are also simply…
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,…
John Miller, a journalism professor at Ryerson University, posted a series of open letters on the Maclean’s controversy. His most recent one, Open letter to Steyn, documents plagiarism and gross errors of fact. See also…
If you have been following magazines and blogs for the past year, you are probably aware of the human rights and free speech controversy involving Mark Steyn and Maclean’s. Starting in 2005, Maclean’s ran a series…
Available online at The Star Phoenix Consequences of public speech real Kashif Ahmed, Special to the StarPhoenix Friday, November 14, 2008 The recent decision by the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal to dismiss a complaint…
On June 28 2008, the Canadian Human Rights commission dismissed the complaint against Maclean’s magazine (Rogers Media) concerning an article by Mark Steyn, and rightly so. (The complainants held that the article, among others, established…
It’s true, we’ve heard this before. The Missing Sockpuppet compares the case of Abrams v. North Shore Press at a B.C. human rights tribunal to the complaint against Maclean’s. The similarities are uncanny. So why…
Two Human Rights Commissions (Federal, Ontario) have refused to hear the Maclean’s case, but both have also indicated the content was at least worthy of scrutiny. The process has instigated further discussion on the balance…
