CBC News A law expanding the power of Canadians to make a citizen’s arrest and streamlining self-defence provisions is set to take effect, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said Wednesday. Among other things, the legislation no longer requires a person to…
CBC News Canada needs stricter laws and harsher penalties for people who make counterfeit products and retailers who knowingly sell knock-off goods, the Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Network said Tuesday. Little progress has been made in tackling the growing problem of counterfeiting…
I often talk to friends or strangers about law. I remember a debate I had with someone once about the government. Can it make arbitrary decisions? I said yes, and he said, rather indignantly, no. His logic was that arbitrary…
The Toronto Star The day the Star broke the story on a wide variation of acceptance rates by refugee board members, a Federal Court judge issued a decision chastising an adjudicator who had not granted asylum to anyone in three…
Pulat Yunusov There are man crimes. Take sexual assault, for example. I don’t have the stats but I will be really surprised if most people convicted of sexual assault weren’t men. For example, the Criminal Code has special rules making…
Published On Thu Nov 26 2009 OTTAWA–The family of Helmut Oberlander says he was never a Nazi and he has not been charged by the federal government with any war crime. The Federal Court of Appeal released a ruling recently…
Guest Blogger: Amber Legislation forcing British Columbia paramedics back to work was introduced November 2. The bill will impose a retroactive one year contract on 3,500 ambulance paramedics, members of CUPE 873, who went on strike April 1, 2009. It…
By Pulat Yunusov Who haven’t heard of immigration queue jumpers? The current federal government used this term when it shut down visa-free travel from the Czech Republic and Mexico. Federal officials blamed queue jumping refugee claimants. But if someone jumps the…
Guest Blogger "Amber" Is polygamy a crime in Canada? Does Criminal Code Section 293, making polygamy a crime in Canada, infringe the Canadian Charter protection of freedom of religion? Two leaders of a Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day…
Court orders CSIS to hand over secret file Agency must reveal source of allegations against terror suspect Mohamed Harkat, judge rules The Canadian Press ___ OTTAWA – A federal judge says Canada’s spy service "has seriously damaged confidence" in the…