Lest you think that that a lifetime fighting the government in the name of feminism might somehow make you unpopular at Rideau Hall, feminist lawyer and Law Society of Upper Canada Bencher Beth Symes was made a Companion of the Order of Canada on December 30, 2010. Congratulations Beth! – this news courtesy of the
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By Denise Réaume, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto On January 11, 2011, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal handed down its decision on the constitutionality of proposals by the Saskatchewan government to allow marriage commissioners in the province “to refuse to solemnize a marriage if to do so would be contrary to the marriage commissioner’s
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By Cara Davies, J.D., LL.M. On December 15, 2010, the latest bill dealing with abortion was defeated in the House of Commons, 178 to 97. Private member’s Bill C-510 would have amended the uttering threats portion of the criminal code by making it a separate criminal offence to coerce a pregnant woman to have an
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By Jonnette Watson Hamilton, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary The Supreme Court of Canada heard the appeal of the Alberta government in Alberta (Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development) v. Cunningham 2009 ABCA 239 on Thursday, December 16, 2010. Cunningham is the first case in which the Supreme Court considers the implications of
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By Professor Jennifer Koshan, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary The Supreme Court’s most recent decision, R. v. Tran, 2010 SCC 58, involves a man who killed his estranged wife’s lover and slashed his wife’s face, causing her permanent injury. The issue was whether there was provocation arising from the fact that the accused found
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LEAF, which intervened in the case of R. v. N.S., issued a press release about the decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal analyzing its significance as follows: The Ontario Court of Appeal released its decision on October 13, 2010 in the case of R. v. N.S. on the right of a sexual assault complainant
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By Professor Janine Benedet, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia The recent decision of Madam Justice Himel of the Ontario Superior court in R. v. Bedford, striking down several provisions of Canada’s criminal laws on prostitution as violations of s. 7 of the Charter, should be deeply disappointing to women committed to sex equality
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Denise Réaume, Faculté de droit, Université de Toronto Plusieurs groupes font pression pour qu’une enquête soit menée sur le comportement de la police lors des sommets du G8 et G20. (Voir Amnistie Internationale Canada, l’Association canadienne des libertés civiles, et la Fédération canadienne des étudiantes et étudiants. (Le site G20Inquiry.org recueille les témoignages au sujet
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By Tess Sheldon and Claire Mummé* The Group of 20 Leaders met in Toronto from June 25 to 27, 2010. The events that followed shook Our Streets. Few were eager to host the G20 Leaders in Toronto’s downtown core. Nevertheless, for a year prior, community activists and civil society groups planned events and themed Days
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Denise Réaume, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto Everyone has heard about the scrap over the federal Conservative government’s plan to replace the mandatory long form census with an optional form. The debate over why the government made this proposal and its wisdom has made it plain that, whatever is going on, this is not
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