The recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision holding that s. 33.1 of the Criminal Code is unconstitutional because it does not allow a defence of “extreme intoxication” for crimes of violence has revived a decades-old …
Read MoreOn April 10, Independent Senator Kim Pate announced her intention to introduce a bill, An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (Independence of the Judiciary), that would grant Canadian judges the authority to impose a …
Read More(Ce texte a été traduit de l’anglais.) Au moment même où le Canada s’expose au jugement de sa population pour avoir échoué lamentablement, en temps de pandémie mondiale, à prendre soin de ses citoyens les plus …
Read MoreThis article has been translated into French. Just as Canada is facing a public reckoning over our abject failure to care for the most vulnerable Canadians in a global pandemic, the government has decided to rush …
Read More(This article has been translated into French.) A bill studied and amended by the Senate and now back before the House of Commons would make significant changes to the law of sexual assault in the Criminal Code. …
Read More(Cet article a été traduit de l’anglais.) Le projet de loi C-51, qui modifie de façon importante certaines dispositions du Code criminel relatives aux agressions sexuelles, a été examiné et amendé par le Sénat, et est …
Read MoreWomen who have a psychiatric or intellectual disability are four to five times more likely than other women to be sexually assaulted. Yet discussions of “rape culture” do not typically address why these women are …
Read MoreNote to readers: This article contains graphic descriptions that some may find disturbing. What do Joshua Boyle, Jian Ghomeshi and Bradley Barton have in common? They all claimed “consent to rough sex,” Ghomeshi on his Facebook …
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