The Hamilton Police Services Board was issued a stinging rebuke by Superior Court Justice Kim Carpenter-Gunn as she awarded $46,000 in damages, including $10,000 in punitive damages, to Michael Dix
Sean Rehaag, an assistant professor at osgoode Hall Law School, has recently concluded a study of the Immigration and Refugee Board which reveals distressing differencs in refugee acceptance rates
Read NOW magazine's Ellie Kirzner's report on the G20 and Civilian Oversight of Policing panel from the Law Union of Ontario's 2011 Conference: Let the Right Not Prevail
The G20 in Toronto just got christened
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjVtsuoPlzk
Mohamed Harkat faces deportation following the recent finding of Federal Court Justice Simon Noel that the security certificate, originally issued against him in 2002, is "reasonable".<
December 21, 2010: TORONTO, MISSISSAUGA NEW CREDIT—Jailed G20 defendant Alex Hundert will be startin
Mike Leitold,Steering Committee and Movement Defence Committee member, today deputed in front of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Defence on behalf of the MDC. The MDC was inv
The federal government announced on Sept. 25, 2006 that it was abolishing the Court Challenges Program, a small program that provided modest contributions to the cost of important test cases dealing with language and equality rights. Without this Program, Canada's constitutional rights are real only for the wealthy. A website is now online to coordinate national efforts to save it: http://www.savecourtchallenges.ca
October 18, 2006
A majority of the world's global mining industry is based in Canada. It is an industry targeted internationally for being associated with environmental harm and human rights abuses. There is a federal government-led national consultation underway evaluating corporate social responsibility ("CSR") and the extractive sector. The Law Union will be making a submission to the Government in favour of legal reforms to hold Canadian-based mining companies accountable for environmental harms and human rights abuses abroad.
