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- Ontario Government Plans To Solve Gridlock by Undermining Bike Infrastructure Defy Evidence and Common Sense and Put Countless Ontarians at Risk
Since arriving in Toronto in 1997, I have persisted in using a bicycle for many of my transportation needs, even though I also drive a car and use public transportation. While often having been frustrated and worried about the lack of safe cycling infrastructure, I trusted that Toronto would inevita … Read more »
- What Counts As Evidence in the Polarized Euthanasia/Assisted Dying Debate: Lessons from a Belgian Criminal Case
In the context of the rapidly expanding, largely unbridled, #euthanasia #MAID practice in Canada, some MAID expansionists continue to deny that there are problems, notwithstanding accumulating reports of euthanasia for lack of social support and adequate health care. They often employ the rhetoric o … Read more »
- Statement by Canadian jurists on proposed transformation of Israel's legal system
Statement by Canadian jurists on proposed transformation of Israel’s legal systemThe undersigned are Canadian law professors and jurists. We write out of concern that recent proposals to transform Israel’s legal system will weaken democratic governance, undermine the rule of law, jeopardize the inde … Read more »
- Parliament is not forced by the courts to legalize MAID for mental illness : Law Professors' Letter to Cabinet
Justice Minister David Lametti announced today the introduction of a bill which would delay by one year, until March 2024, the scheduled implementation of MAID for sole reasons of mental illness. Until today, the federal government had repeatedly suggested it was bound by ‘the courts’ to expand MAID … Read more »
- Thrilla in Manila
Thrilla in Manila It may not be “Smokin’ Joe” v. The Louisville Lip”. But hopefully MacIntosh v. Waitzer may supply at least some dry-as-dust securities lawyers with a moment or two’s entertainment. In his second attack on my defense of Heather Zordel’s appointment as Chair of the OSC Board of Direc … Read more »