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R. v. McKay, 2013 ONCJ 298 holds: [68] Since the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in R. v. Golden, supra, it has generally been accepted that when it is necessary to place a detainee in cells with other inmates, a strip search is usually necessary to ensure the protection of the detainee, other

R. v. Williams, 2013 ONCA 477 holds: [8]          We agree with the appellant that the trial judge’s earlier directions to the jury, when he was relating the evidence to the elements of first and second degree murder, lacked balance. We are particularly concerned with the trial judge’s use of rhetorical questions.

“They laughed at Galileo … but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown” might be appled to Murry Salby, who until May was a Professor of Environmental Science at Australia’s Macquarie University (MU).  P.T. Barnum might fit better, as Salby has a well-documented history of deception and financial chicanery that

What do Toronto and Calgary have to do with the mysterious Cambodian city of Angkor Wat?   More, perhaps, than we would care to imagine. The city of Angkor Wat, Cambodia, was a vibrant, growing metropolis in the late 17th century. Angkor was the New York, Paris or Rome of its

A CLIMATE sceptic professor fired from his Australian university for alleged policy breaches had previously been banned for three years from accessing US taxpayer-funded science research money. Dr Murry Salby, sacked in May by Macquarie University in Sydney, was the subject of a long investigation by the US National Science

Many Canadian progressives are very aware of how deeply the Harper government is controlled by Big Oil. In light of the tragic events in Lac-Megantic, serious questions need to be directed to PM Harper.  The main questions is this …  why has the Conservative administration been ‘foot dragging’ on a

Because you have to swear allegiance to the Queen in order to become Canadian, we dragged our feet for 17 years.  In the end we decided that it was okay to vow to uphold her laws, but for a long time the idea of agreeing to become the subject of

When it comes to Afghanistan, honesty is a rare and elusive commodity.  The Karzai government doesn’t understand the term.   It’s something of an inconvenient notion to western military leaders and our political leadership is just as bad, often worse.   That’s why, a dozen years later, the place is still just

TSN says that the new CFL stadium in the Hammer is going to be named Tim Horton’s Field. Fark had the best line on the whole thing:  Hamilton’s new CFL stadium has its naming rights bought by Tim Hortons. This means in 10 years the CFL will have 1,500 teams