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What You Should Know About Quebec’s Proposed Law on Secularism

Sep

16

2013

Tweet My first post for Huffington Post Canada tackles the issue of Quebec’s proposed secular values Charter. “Lots of ink has been spilled this week about the proposed Quebec secular values law that would prevent a large category of government workers from wearing “conspicuous” religious symbols. Like many others, I think the proposed law is deeply ...

Op-ed: Appeal process worked in Ryan case

Jun

27

2013

Tweet This op-ed, co-authored with Professor Michael Plaxton, appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on June 27, 2013. The case of Nicole Ryan, who tried to hire a hit man to kill her husband and was recently granted a stay of proceedings, has been fiercely controversial. Several commentators have now suggested that the case has unfairly ...

CTV News Interview: R. v. Levkovic (concealing dead baby)

May

5

2013

Tweet On Friday, May 3, the Supreme Court of Canada released R. v. Levkovic, a constitutional challenge to the crime of concealing the body of a child which has died “before, during or after birth”. Ivana Levkovic convinced an Ontario Superior Court judge that, because the Criminal Code provided no guidance as to how to ...

University of Ottawa panel discussion on Ryan and N.S.: March 27, 2013

May

1

2013

Tweet On Wednesday, March 27, U of O put together a panel of criminal and feminist scholars to discuss two recent decisions from the Supreme Court of Canada of particular interest to women: R. v. Ryan, and N.S. My colleagues Jennie Abell, Natasha Bakht, Liz Sheehy and Kim Pate and I spoke to a capacity ...

The Desjourdy verdict: tough questions (and few answers) about sexual assault

Apr

5

2013

Tweet (This op ed appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on April 4, 2013) The recent trial of Sgt. Steven Desjourdy has thrown into sharp relief the offence of sexual assault. Desjourdy was the officer in charge of cells at Ottawa’s police headquarters in September, 2008. After a female prisoner got into an altercation with other ...

Canada’s Supreme Court upholds hate speech laws

Apr

5

2013

Tweet (I wrote this post for I-CONnect, the blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law and ConstitutionMaking.org) A comparative discussion of North American civil liberties invariably notes that Canada has a more limited scope of protection for freedom of expression than the United States. Nowhere is this more evident than the treatment of hateful ...

The Current – Gay Panic As a Legal Defence

Nov

21

2012

Tweet http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2012/11/21/gay-panic-as-a-legal-defence/