September 16, 2019
Parliament should not wait to act on assisted dying ruling
The 2019 federal election just got more complicated, as the issue of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) has been thrust back into the news and onto the desks of...
September 13, 2019
Will Scheer or Trudeau have an alt-right Internet problem?
Fifteen years ago, author and business executive Tim O’Reilly coined the term “Web 2.0” to describe a new wave of networked communication and information technologies that were emerging on...
September 10, 2019
Mort au feuilleton du projet de loi C-337
« Pourquoi n’as-tu pas serré les genoux [pour éviter de te faire agresser] ? » avait demandé le juge Robin Camp à une jeune victime d’agression sexuelle en 2017. « On peut...
September 4, 2019
Will Canada’s justice system step up to deal with Jihadi Jack?
Jack Letts, known as “Jihadi Jack,” is alleged to have supported the Islamic State in Syria and currently sits in a Kurdish jail in northern Syria. The United Kingdom...
August 28, 2019
Improving election night media coverage
Canada’s system of government isn’t easy to understand. As a parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy that relies on rules that have evolved over hundreds of years, the intricacies of...
August 21, 2019
Lost in the SNC-Lavalin controversy are the Libyan victims
The SNC-Lavalin affair is about many things. It’s about conflict of interest, pressure from the prime minister and whether to split the roles of the attorney general and the...
August 20, 2019
Accountability reforms needed in wake of SNC-Lavalin affair
The pundits will be chattering about the political impact of federal Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion’s bombshell report into the SNC-Lavalin affair until election day. But this is also an...
August 15, 2019
Hard time gets unduly hard for aging prisoners
With an election looming, Canadians are hearing more talk about the importance of being tough on crime, along with the claim that our justice and prison systems are too...
August 13, 2019
Decades later, abortions in Canada are still hard to get
When several American states established some of the most restrictive abortion laws since Roe v. Wade this spring, waves of Canadian millennials took to the web. They not only...
August 1, 2019
Canada must respect Indigenous cannabis laws
The cannabis industry in Canada, which may be worth $5 billion by 2021, could provide urgently needed employment and revenue to Indigenous communities. In order for this success to...