The decision that has the law world buzzing this weekend is the release this Friday of Abdullah Al-Kidd v John Ashcroft.
The Plaintiff is an American-born citizen who converted to Islam while he was...
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, t...
It’s turkey day in Canada.
But for our American neighbours, it’s Columbus Day, which commemorates the arrival of Columbus to the Americas on October 12, 1492.
Many Americans don’t ...
Prostitution laws not irrational, lawyer argues
Tracey Tyler writes for the Toronto Star:
Just because prostitution is illegal in public and commercial venues in Canada but not in hotel rooms and ho...
special contribution by Faraz Siddiqui
Toronto, Oct 28th: In what seems to be a rising fad, a Canadian Muslim organization has asked the federal government to ban woollen socks from public spaces....
The Canadian Press reports:
B.C. introduces law blasted by critics as means to hide homeless for Games
The B.C. government introduced a controversial law Thursday that will allow police to take home...
Omar Khadr case cost Ottawa $1.3 million
Allan Woods and Michelle Shephard write:
Ottawa has spent more than $1.3-million fighting against Toronto-born captive Omar Khadr, who has been held at th...
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 sta...
‘No-fly’ watchdogs blasted
Tonda MacCharles writes:
Canada’s “no-fly” list took effect in June 2007, and almost everything about it – the number of names, the de...
