Earlier this month it was revealed that the Canadian government was settling with Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen who had spent eight years in detention at a US naval base in Cuba known as Guantanamo…
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Trinity Western University is the first party to file its factum in its appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of Trinity Western University v. Law Society of Upper Canada. As has…
With the help of the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse, a Montreal man has prevailed over his former employer at the Human Rights Tribunal of Quebec. Richard Zilberg…
The Toronto Star is reporting that five employees of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) have filed a $35 million lawsuit against CSIS alleging that it is a toxic workplace and that their managers made…
With the support of the Center for Research-Action on Race Relations (CRARR), a Laval, Quebec resident is filing a complaint to the police ethics board asserting that police followed him, knocked his phone from his…
Justice Nicholas Kasirer of the Court of Appeal of Quebec has issued a safeguard order to temporarily avert a total shutdown of the Indian Act status registration process, following a failure of the federal government…
A complaint alleging that the federal government’s use of inaccessible computer programs is discriminatory against employees with disabilities is headed to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT). Abigail Shorter, an employee of the federal government for…
In a decision released on June 19, 2017, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that s. 2(a) of the Lanham Act, the act that regulates a national system of trademark registration, was unconstitutional….
On May 26, 2017, the Quebec Superior Court authorized a class action suit initiated by RAPLIQ, an organization that promotes and defends the rights of people with disabilities. The class action, estimated to include 20,000…
The coroner’s inquest into the fatal police shooting of Andrew Loku began on Monday. Mr. Loku was fatally shot by police in July of 2015. A Special Investigations Unit (SIU) investigation cleared the two officers…
