I MENTION a certain writer in an e-mail, and the reply comes back: “Comcast McCarthy??? Phoner novelist???” Did I really type “Comcast”? No. The great god Autocorrect has struck again.…
In an interview with CBC News Network’sPower & Politics, Tom Flanagan, a professor at the University of Calgary and former adviser to Harper said Kenney’s office “made a mistake” by…
R. v. Hawley, 2012 ONCA 528 was released this morning. It has helpful language about the nature of potential errors on a preliminary inquiry: In R. v. Sazant, 3 S.C.R.,…
The Appeal Court of Ontario has upheld a man’s jail sentence for criminal negligence and assault after a racially motivated attack on anglers that left one of them with permanent…
Rule 56.01 allows for an order for security for costs where: (e) there is good reason to believe that the action or application is frivolous and vexatious and that the…
“You said hockey was an Olympic sport” — “Yes, but I never said it was on the games in London!”
More than 80 lawyers have signed an open letter to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney challenging his insistence he played no role in granting Conrad Black a permit to live in…
http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/syrian-rebel-forces-execute-clan-leaders-loyal-to-assad-regime/article4457043/?service=mobile On Tuesday, over the strenuous objections of the Syrian National Council leadership, rebel forces chose to summarily execute leaders of an Aleppo clan that is notoriously loyal to the…
Canada v. Craig, 2012 SCC 43 was just released. It holds that a lower court may not overrule a higher court but may point out why the higher court’s precedent…
Sam Harris’s view on free will is really nothing new. It is merely a secular restatement of the Calvinist concept of double predestination – we are saved or damned without…
P.S.D. Enterprises Ltd. v. New Westminster (City), 2012 BCCA 319 states as settled law that a representation as to something happening in the future cannot found a claim for negligent…
Prosecutors are filing formal charges Monday against Colorado theatre shooting suspect James Holmes, who is accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 others at a midnight movie screening. The…
LONDON – Her career was forged over more than two decades of training, of six-hour sessions, of 80 dives a day, five days a week. If Emilie Heymans decides to…
There is a reason lawyers in Canada wear robes in Superior Court. There is a reason judges wear robes almost everywhere in the Common Law world. The reason is to…
