Lesley Ciarula Taylor IMMIGRATION REPORTER Almost half the husbands and wives in southern China and western Africa who want to join their spouses in Canada are refused, government documents show, a situation MP Olivia Chow calls cruel and arbitrary. That’s…
Kirk Makin From Monday’s Globe and Mail Last updated on Sunday, Jun. 28, 2009 09:48PM EDT A group of 50 law professors has added its support to a growing boycott of Ontario’s legal aid plan, warning that the “deteriorating” program…
Robert Matas Vancouver — Globe and Mail Update Last updated on Friday, Jun. 26, 2009 01:05PM EDT Robert Pickton’s second-degree murder trial is going to the Supreme Court of Canada. Less than 24 hours after the B.C. Appeal Court upheld…
Kirk Makin Justice Reporter From Friday’s Globe and Mail, Friday, Jun. 26, 2009 07:52AM EDT A Muslim teenager is taking on an elite Toronto private school, accusing it of defaming him in connection with a violent racial incident last year.…
Robert Matas From Globe and Mail, Thursday, Jun. 25, 2009 02:20PM EDT Robert Pickton’s conviction of second-degree murder of six women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside was upheld today by the B.C. Appeal Court in a ruling that is…
A 32-year-old Surrey man has become one of the first people in B.C. to get a ticket for smoking with a child in a car. The man, who was driving in Langley with his wife and 12-year-old son, was handed…
It’s a subversive twist to one of the most complex, convoluted legal proceedings in modern Canadian history: the friends and family of some 20 alleged murder victims, most of them siding — for the moment, at least — with the…
Help teach the world’s drug czar that drug prohibition is the exact opposite of drug control. On page 1 of the just-released World Drug Report 2009, the world’s Drug Czar, Antonio Maria Costa, admits that the public is increasingly aware…
Justice Brownstone talks about his Book, "Tug of War" while at the John Howard Society in Hamilton, Ontario on June 2, 2009. Nancy Kinney of AdviceScene attended this duscussion. His 45 minute talk was recorded by a staff member from…
Christie Blatchford From Tuesday’s Globe and Mail, Tuesday, Jun. 23, 2009 04:38AM EDT Almost a year before the Ontario Attorney-General grudgingly launched an internal review into how police and Crown attorneys in the province are secretly screening potential jurors…