A Long-Awaited Departure Twenty years after arriving in Canada, and seventeen years after his initial deportation order, Leon Mugesera is back in Rwanda to face a slew of charges stemming from comments he made that allegedly sparked the beginning of the Rwandan genocide in 1994.  Mugesera sought refuge in Canada in 1992 after being charged [...]

Gay Marriage Blame Game In a very quick turn of events, the same sex marriage debate closed just about as quickly as it was reopened last week. The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a legal argument stating that a lesbian couple who married in Canada in 2004 could not get the divorce they were seeking [...]

Election Bores Early last week the Harper Conservatives fell after being found in contempt of Parliament. No one (the opposition aside) seemed to care. Nevertheless it is déjà vu all over again – we have an election! Early election drama has centered on – cue sarcasm – seminal questions that cut to the core of [...]

NPR Woes It’s been a rough two weeks for U.S. National Public Radio. Following a hidden-camera prank lunch by conservative prankster James O’Keefe in which NPR executives Ron and Vivian Schiller were caught slighting the Tea Party, both members were forced to resign based on their personal statements’ perceived left-wing bias. As a result, Republicans have successfully [...]

U.S. Patent Reform Is Near On Tuesday, the United States Senate overwhelmingly approved a patent reform bill by a 95-5 vote. The bill still needs to be passed by the House of Representatives before it can be enacted. If approved, the bill will represent the first significant changes to the U.S. patent system in nearly [...]

SCOTUS Rules for Westboro Baptist Church In an 8-1 decision, the United States Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of protesting at funerals as an exercise of freedom of speech. The decision has received significant media scrutiny due to the controversial nature of the defendant, the notorious Westboro Baptist Church (WBC). The initial action was [...]

Boehner Weighs in on Birthers Three years after being elected President, rumours that Barack Obama was not born in the United States are still floating about. That seems to be the state of things after House Speaker, Republican John Boehner’s comments over the weekend on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that, although he believes Obama was [...]

Lawsuit Follows Super Bowl Seating Fiasco Although Super Bowl XLV has become the most watched television program in history, the seating fiasco at the stadium has prompted legal action from some ticket holders: a class-action lawsuit against the Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, the Dallas Cowboys , and the NFL  seeking $5 million in damages. [...]

Nutella – Delicious and Not Healthy? A California woman is bringing a class action lawsuit against Nutella, alleging that Ferraro USA Inc., the maker of Nutella, “falsely and misleadingly markets Nutella as healthful” even though it “contains 70% saturated fat and processed sugar by weight”. The plaintiff also claims that she was “shocked” to learn [...]

State of the Union President Barack Obama delivered the annual State of the Union address to the U.S. Congress this past week. Amongst other things, he highlighted the need to invest in innovation and education, as well as the need to tame the raging US deficit. His address, entitled “Winning the Future,” cast the legislative [...]