This past Monday, after nearly three weeks of jury selection, the trial for Lac Mégantic began in Sherbrooke. Train engineer Thomas Harding, 56, railway traffic […]
Category: Law
Convictions and Crossings: Why Chelsea Manning was Denied Entry into Canada
Chelsea Manning is a former U.S. Army intelligence analyst. She leaked thousands of military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks about civilian deaths and the abuse […]
Freedom to Hate: The Paradox of Censuring Hate Propaganda in the US and Canada
There is a racist misogynist money-grubbing cheeto in the White House who has recently and very publicly expressed his sympathy for White Supremacists and Neo […]
The Legality of Second Chances: Parole, Rehabilitation and Karla Homolka
At the end of May it came to light that Karla Homolka, the Barbie of the Ken and Barbie Killers, was volunteering at her kids’ […]
Deflecting Scandal with Identity Politics: Why Couillard is Reopening the Constitutional Debate in Canada
On June 1st, 2017, Premier Philippe Couillard announced that the time has come to reopen the constitutional debate in Quebec. The response across much of […]
In Quebec, We Unionize: A Crash Course on Labour Disputes and the Law
On May 24, 2017 Quebec construction workers walked off the job after failing to sign a collective agreement with their employers. Though the provincial government […]
Increasing Municipal Revenue at the Expense of Community Organizations: The City of Montreal and the Taxation of Churches
After years of tax exemptions, the religious communities in the City of Montreal are facing big tax bills. It has recently come to light that […]
Don’t Call it Stealthing: Non-Consensual Condom Removal and the Law
It is appalling that in 2017 we still need to have a conversation about sexual consent. In April 2017, Alexandra Brodsky published an article in […]
Defining Atrocities: A Crash Course on Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes in International Law
Germany, Rwanda, Kosovo, Syria – what do these places have in common? They were and are the sites of some of the worst atrocities in […]