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…
vancouver
SOCAN goes after Vancouver transit buskers
It seems that SOCAN has finally decided to take a piece of the incredibly rich Vancouver transit busker pie, and has informed the Vancouver transit authority of their intent to enforce SOCAN tariffs for buskers….
Women Ski Jumpers Grounded…
The BC Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal filed on behalf of a number of a group of women ski jumpers attempting to get inclusion into next years olympics being held in Vancouver. Â Written…
The Ocean Lady: Rethinking “Illegal” Migration in Canada
The recent arrival by boat in Vancouver of 76 Sri Lankan Tamil men has triggered heated debate about Canada’s refugee system. On October 28, the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British…
Criminalising Refugees
The arrival in Vancouver by boat two weeks ago of 76 refugees from Sri Lanka has triggered a predictable wave of paranoia and xenophobia, not the least of which has come from our own Ministry…
CBC: UBC students tutored on Olympic security rights
I’ve already posted about PIVOT’s and the BC Civil Liberties Association’s mobilisation around Vancouver’s stringent (and possibly unconstitutional) anti-dissent Olympic laws. It now appears that UBC students (undergrads, I think) are now also taking it…
Government promises tougher refugee legislation
Canada to take hard line with would-be migrants Jane Armstrong and John Ibbitson write for the Globe: Canada’s Immigration Minister has signalled that he intends to play hardball with 76 men believed to be from…
Vancouver 2010 and Civil Liberties
The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association and Pivot Legal Society are looking for volunteers for Legal Observer teams during the Olympics. They’ll be having training sessions (in fact, their training manual is already online (PDF)):…
Taser International
Taser maker to file suit over inquiry … “The assertion is that commission breached basic principles of fairness and fundamental justice,†Mr. Neave said in an interview with CTV at his Vancouver office. “They were…
What to do with tasers
B.C. Taser inquiry report released
The Dziekanski case
Charge Mounties in taser case, Polish watchdog says
The Legal Intersection Between Sexuality and Race
What do Sikh immigrants to B.C. almost a century ago have to do with gay issues? Everything. Or, maybe nothing. On Oct. 24, 2008 I saw a film, Rex vs Singh, a 20-min. short film…