Omar Khadr: Will Harper’s Appeal Succeed?
On April 23, Justice O’Reilly of the Federal Court in Vancouver ordered the federal government to request the repatriation of Omar Khadr in Khadr v. Prime Minister of Canada 2009...
Author: Kevin Tilley
Is the SCC Anti-Quebec?: Top Court Statistics
This weekend, I conducted a review of Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) rulings from the last 5 years and revealed a slight bias against Quebec and for Ontario. In 341...
Does the Right to Collective Bargaining Extend to Lawyers?
Does the constitutional right to form a union and collectively bargain also extend to lawyers? Unfortunately for the legally curious, a case in Nova Scotia which would have answered this...
Challenging Polygamy
On January 6, two men, Winston Blackmore and James Oler from the controversial polygamist community of Bountiful, BC were charged with practicing polygamy under s. 293 of the Criminal Code,...
