A reminder, from the Fairview Post, that free speech doesn’t stop at the edges of our cities. A business owner in Dixonville, AB, a small hamlet in North Western Alberta with a population of about…
A drop in the bucket of press on body scanners, technically known as “Whole Body Imaging” technology:
A $17-million dollar law suit for one of the “most horrendous examples of in-custody tortures [lawyer Julian Falconer has] ever seen”, and another reported homicide at Toronto’s Don Jail – the third extremely violent act…
From the National Post: The federal and provincial governments are planning to create national standards to determine when police can zap suspects with Tasers, in an attempt to reduce a patchwork of practices among police…
As we hurtle forward into the pocket-sized technology age, Courts are expanding notions of privacy, and s. 8 Charter rights, into novel territory. Here is a Toronto Star story about police searches of cell phones…
An editorial this morning from the New York Times about why the incarceration rate in the US – the country with less than 5 percent of the world’s population, and 25% of the world’s prisoners…
Apparently, they both distribute the Gideon’s New Testament Bible. According to reports in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, the Waterloo District School Board has been giving Gideons International approval to offer Grade five public school children a…
Excellent news in the Globe and Mail today… The Supreme Court of Canada transformed the country’s libel laws Tuesday with a pair of decisions that proponents say will expand the boundaries of free speech. The…
CBC News – Saskatchewan legislation doesn’t hold up: The legislation, which came into effect in 2004, prohibits anyone from going to a licensed drinking establishment while wearing “any sign, symbol, logo or other representation identifying,…
Rabble.ca is a great source of news – articles, podcasts and such. Here’s an interesting column about SLAPP suits: A SLAPP is a lawsuit (or threat of a lawsuit) used mostly by private interests to…
