Evidence on a voir dire forms no part of trial proper
Sadikov OJ No. 376: 30 A voir dire is held to determine the admissibility of evidence proposed for admission by a party to a criminal proceeding: R. v. Parsons (1977),…
April 2014
Mr. Harper: Can You Even Read?
If I didn’t know better, I’d swear that Harper doesn’t know how to read a legal decision. Yesterday, in Question Period, Harper said the following: “The Supreme Court has ruled…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andrew Jackson reviews Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, while Paul Mason offers a useful summary. And David Atkins applies its most…
The Lancet Calls on Canada to be a Good Global Citizen
The Lancet is a medical journal that is known for its direct and terse reports, the are perhaps best known for their detailed account of the death toll in Iraq…
CAMH asks staff to mail patients’ cigarettes back home
Ah, Rosie. Toronto Star columnist Rosie DiManno recently used her shotgun style prose to take the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) to school. While addiction is part of…
Setting Seeds and Farmers Free
Here is a good news story from the University of Wisconsin. Move over Monsanto new open source seeds are being developed and made available without restrictive patents. OSSI on CBC’s…
SFH through the ages
Came across this one in the Punk Rock Hall of Fame vault, and put it on Twitter to irritate Steve Deceive. As you read this, millions of mohawked youngsters are…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, April 30th, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, April 30th, 2014: Land transfer tax carries huge costs for Toronto, report says Kenyan president signs polygamy…
Get off the dime Justin.
Liberals are waiting for Leader Justin Trudeau to act and every day he dithers is another day when the party is losing sight of the objective. You can hardly expect…
Transform This: iconic Johnny Cash photo used to protest Saskatchewan university cuts
Things may soon be looking grim for many students and faculty at the University of Saskatchewan. The Saskatoon-based institution is looking to slash up to $25 million from its operating…
Someone Else Will Pick Up The Tab
The Harperites promised Canada’s Afghan Veterans a National Day of Honour. But they’re not going to pay for it. Tim Harper writes: Corporate Canada and True Patriot Love, the charitable…
Sorry, but Tory’s Twister stunt not Stratego – too much Risk. Being a real Mayor is not a Trivial Pursuit
Don Eady brilliantly sums up the Twitter stunt of John Tory’s oxymoronic brain trust (and you’d think they’d wash their hair for a photo shoot!). Classic. Anyway, don’t take the…
A guilty plea does not ALWAYS reflect an agreement to actually committing the offence
{But note it is unethical for counsel to assist in the making of a guilty plea where an accused does not accept actual guilt – RPC 5.1-8(c)) Kumar, 2011 ONCA…
Congrats to Nancy Leblanc, the acclaimed Ontario Liberal candidate in Parkdale-High Park
I read this good news online this morning on Scott Tribe’s site , as well as Big City Liberal, that my friend Nancy Leblanc will be acclaimed as the Ontario…
“Polls clear as mud in Ontario”
No kidding. My political gut, which I always trust over my political head, tells me that the Ontario Liberals are heading to the charnel house. (Thanks, perhaps, to the Three…
Report from the Front: Full Binocular Vision
And the patch was removed this morning so I can see in the world in full binocular mode, with colours gorgeously clear and all the details vibrant. A little discomfort…
dark times in canada, part 2: marci mcdonald on jason kenney: "and you thought harper was right-wing?"
You won’t catch me implying that Stephen Harper and his corrupt, anti-democratic, anti-human government is moderate. But there’s always room to move even further to the right, and that space…
Voters Should Pass On Municipal Election Candidates Who Deny Reality of Climate Change
We often instinctively look to our federal government to provide leadership on climate change. After all, the government of Canada participates in international climate change negotiations through the United Nations.…
How This U.S. Rail Safety Measure Has Been Delayed for 44 Years … And Counting
On August 20, 1969, two Penn Central commuter trains collided head-on near Darien, Conn. Four people were killed and 43 were injured. The crash led the National Transportation Safety Board…