Mark Steyn
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…
A clarification of questions : an unabridged translation of Resaleh towzih al-masael
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,…
LawIsCool Exclusive: Mark Steyn Exists
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…
John Miller’s Open Letter to Mark Steyn
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…
Law is Cool Podcast: Human Rights Commissions (Episode 17)
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…
Public speech has real consequences
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…
Top Twelve Contemporary Hate-Mongers
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) have released a report on the top twelve hate-mongers in the American media. Given the substantial American media content in Canada, there is direct relevance to civil rights here…
In Defense of Free Speech…
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…
South Dakota, Free Speech, and Irony
Background In June 2008, the New York Times published this article: “Unlike Others, U.S. Defends Freedom to Offend in Speech” by Adam Liptak. In the article (which caused a big todo in Canada, since we…
Mark Steyn Debates Complainants
We’ve all been waiting for this since forever. The understandably busy articling students from Osgoode Hall make time to debate Mark Steyn on TVO. A point of note: the poster of the videos introduces them…
Free to Attack Marginalized Groups
The Ahenakew affair: a bad law, an opportunity missed By Marjaleena Repo The David Ahenakew Affair, after five years in the courts, has sprung back with full force after the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations…