If the Federal Government was serious about banning clothing linked to riots they’d ban Canucks jerseys
Forget the masks (With apology to Emma Teitel)
James C Morton
Context matters in interpretation of contracts
Words never "speak for themselves". They have to be placed in a factual matrix. Today's decision in Lloyds Syndicate 1221 (Millennium Syndicate) v. Coventree Inc., 2012 ONCA 341 has some helpful language in…
An order cannot be made requiring a hospital to take a s.672.58 patient where there are no beds
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health v. Ontario, 2012 ONCA 342 was released today. A treatment order under s. 672.58 of the Criminal Code can be makde requiring an accused to…
Integrated Cross-border Law Enforcement Operations Act
We shall be Canadians first, foremost, and always, and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country. John G. Diefenbaker It is sensible to…
The government is aware the prospect of FBI agents arresting Canadians on their native soil is controversial
Ok, this is truly absurd. DEA, FBI, NCIS agents authorized to arrest Canadians in Canada? I haven't noticed any suggestion the RCMP or OPP can arrest Americans in Buffalo. I'd…
A sentencing judge should refrain from imposing a sentence which exceeds an offender’s expected remaining life span
R. v. Johnson, 2012 ONCA 339 is a useful source for the principle, applied in Canada but not the United States, that a sentencing judge should generally refrain from imposing…
Sufficiency of Tribunal Decisions
Wachtler v. College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta, 2012 ABCA 145 is a useful decision outlining the law regarding sufficiency of reasons of a tribunal: The appellant’s first ground…
New nuclear power plants for UK
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/world/europe/british-energy-plan-would-add-nuclear-plants.html "While Germany intends to phase out nuclear power, and France's new president, François Hollande, says he hopes to reduce his country's reliance on it, the British government appears to…
Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.
John G. Diefenbaker
Greyhound killer believed man he beheaded was a space alien
This is about as clear a case of Not Criminally Responsible as one could imagine: http://news.sympatico.cbc.ca/home/greyhound_killer_believed_man_he_beheaded_was_an_alien/8f52b036 Vince Li, who beheaded a fellow passenger aboard a Greyhound bus in Manitoba in…
Undertaking not to drive does not mean someone not authorized to drive
If someone is released from custody on the basis they won't drive — they give an undertaking — and then breach the undertaking are they still "authorized by law" to…
Lord Black said he believes locking up non-violent offenders is wrong
"It's done because it's always been done but it is nonsense. It is not the way to treat them. It's horribly expensive. It's tokenistic, fetishistic – and a matrix for…
Environment Minister Peter Kent’s office urged bureaucrats to blame media for recycling controversy
Now in fairness to Peter Kent, I suspect he himself had nothing much to do with this — it was his office minions scrambling to find a cover story. But…