When it comes to issues of racism and police brutality, Canadians suffer from a bad case of denial. We think these are the problems of […]
Category: Law
Joshua Boyle’s Fall from Grace and the Victimization of Caitlin Coleman and Her Children
The case of Joshua Boyle and his wife Caitlan Coleman is one where the questions are more important than the answers. Just over five years […]
An Incomplete Attempt to Finally Fulfill an Election Promise: An Analysis of the Federal Cannabis Legalization Law
On April 13, 2017 our parliament began its first reading of Bill C-45, The Cannabis Act. Recently this bill was passed in the House of […]
Pointing a Canon at the Catholic Church: How Civil Suits Against Pedophile Priests are Handled in Canada
Quebec has a love-hate relationship with its Catholic heritage. The province began as a settlement ripped from First Nations by Catholic France before the British […]
Keeping Kids Safe: An Introduction to Youth Protection in Quebec
In a decision by the Quebec Court’s Youth Division last week, Judge Annie Savard awarded a mother full custody of her children. The kids, age […]
The Cannabis Conundrum: Bill 157 and Trudeau’s Plan to Legalize
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was elected because of a lot of promises he made. He promised electoral reform and greater political transparency, but then backtracked […]
Juggling Parental Discretion, Government Supervision, and the Right to an Education: The Problem with Bill 144
On November 9, 2017, the Quebec government passed Bill 144, An Act to Amend the Education Act and other legislative provisions concerning mainly free educational […]
Beating Bill 62: Quebec Muslims’ Constitutional Challenge to the Religious Neutrality Law
On Tuesday, November 7, 2017, Muslim groups and civil liberty advocates launched the constitutional challenge we all knew was coming. Last week, I and many […]
Benevolent Sexism and Racism Masquerading as Religious Neutrality: A Crash Course on Bill 62
Four years after the Parti Québecois’ colossal defeat over their quietly racist but aggressively secular Charter of Values, and less than a year after a […]
Erasing History on the Pretense of Preserving Privacy: Why the Supreme Court of Canada is Allowing the Destruction of Records of Residential School Abuse
One of the ways to persecute is to rob people of their history. This was done by male historians seeking to undervalue the contributions of […]