The Human Right to Collective Health: Driven by the Jus Cogens norm to health
The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA) published a report “Health For All: Building Winnipeg’s Health Equity Action Plan” in 2013, which described marked health disparities within the city of...
View ArticleProtecting the health of the child is a justifiable infringement of...
As reported by CCLA RightsWatch blogger Oluwatobi, in Hamilton Health Sciences Association v D.H., et al., 2014 C297/14E the Ontario Court of Justice ruled that an aboriginal parent’s decision to...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Commentary on “Last Chance” Documentary
I was recently introduced to the documentary “Last Chance” in law school this semester. This film shed some light on Canada’s reform to refugee laws and their prejudicial effect on LGBT asylum seekers....
View ArticleOp-Ed: The Real Blow to Judicial Integrity
I was dismayed to read yesterday that Manitoba Associate Chief Justice Lori Douglas chose to step down from her position. In doing so, she is “avoiding a hearing on whether she should be kicked off the...
View ArticleOp-ed: Law professor’s words highlight how the personal is still the political
Should professional women’s personal lives have anything to do with their careers? One law professor doesn’t have the answer to that question, but her words make clear that regardless of whether they...
View ArticleLaw Society of New Brunswick votes to accredit Trinity Western University
This past Friday New Brunswick’s Law Society was a forum for a failure to uphold the basic human right of equality. The Law Society of New Brunswick’s Council voted 12-12 against a motion to rescind...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Inside Bedford and the Ongoing Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
Last week I had the pleasure of sitting down with Lisa Kerr, Trudeau Foundation Scholar, doctoral fellow of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and member of the Pivot Legal...
View ArticleOp Ed: Parental Rights and Mandated Vaccines
Should parents have the right to control the medical decision-making of their children? Measles outbreaks across North America have highlighted the importance of this issue. Many parents mistakenly...
View ArticleUK MPs Challenge Unlimited Detention for Immigrants
A non-partisan Parliamentary group submitted in a report that the use of detention for immigrants arriving in the UK is “disproportionate and inappropriate”. The report outlines many severe problems...
View ArticleOp-ed: Women-only gym hours about more than gender “segregation”
Note: This op-ed was originally published as a letter to the editor in the Montreal Gazette on March 25, 2015. On March 19, McGill University decided it would not establish women-only hours at McGill’s...
View ArticleDiscrimination n’équivaut pas à persécution nous dit la Cour fédérale
33. Aucun des États contractants n’expulsera ou ne refoulera, de quelque manière que ce soit, un réfugié sur les frontières des territoires où sa vie ou sa liberté serait menacée en raison de sa race,...
View ArticleOntario Legislature: Police Record Checks Legislation Receives Royal Assent
Introduction The Police Record Checks Reform Act, 2015 (the “Act”), governing the disclosure of information in response to requests for police record checks, received Royal Assent on December 3, 2015....
View ArticleFederal Justice Robin Camp, Rape Culture, and the Undermining of the Justice...
In November 2015, the Canadian Judicial Council (CJC) decided to review comments made in 2014 by the Federal Court Justice Robin Camp while he was a Provincial Court Judge in Alberta. Justice Camp was...
View ArticleCarding: why our government is not an insurance company (part 1)
Introduction: draft carding regulations—ongoing discussion Back in November, I reported that Minister Naqvi presented draft carding regulations, which purported to address the issue of arbitrary and...
View ArticleCarding: why our government is not an insurance company (part 2)
Statistical discrimination cannot fully explain carding behaviour in both the short and long run This post continues my critique of the insurance analogy that was proposed as a way of conceptualizing...
View ArticleMaori of New Zealand call the signature of the TPP a “death sentence” for...
Trade ministers of 12 countries, including New Zealand, Canada, and the U.S., are travelling to Auckland, New Zealand this week to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement on February 4th....
View ArticleJustice Antonin Scalia: A Legacy Opposed to Progress
On February 13th, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died of natural causes. A larger than life figure on the bench, his decisions have had lasting effects on American society since his...
View ArticleReplacing Justice Scalia – The Implications of the Decision
The death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia leaves a large seat to fill on the highest American court. The current 8 justices are split evenly between liberal and conservative ideologies....
View ArticleOntario Legislature Back in Session
Ontario Legislature Back in Session The Ontario Legislature returned to Session on February 16, 2016 after a winter recess, which began on December 10, 2015. Several exciting items are on the agenda....
View ArticleYellowknife Releases Road Map to Combat Homelessness
The Yellowknife Homelessness Road Map Action Plan: Report of the Homelessness Working Group (the Roadmap), was released earlier this month. The report outlines both short term and long term...
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