In Defense of Free Speech…
On June 28 2008, the Canadian Human Rights commission dismissed the complaint against Maclean’s magazine (Rogers Media) concerning an article by Mark Steyn, and rightly so. (The complainants held that...
View ArticleThe Charter Does Not Apply to Copyright Law
Despite the public attention that has been directed at copyright law recently, the issues surrounding the Charter right to freedom of expression have been absent from the public discourse. The matter...
View ArticleCopyright Law, Freedom of Expression and Canwest v. Horizon
In a previous post I erroneously stated that the appeal of Canwest Mediaworks Publications v. Horizon Publications had been dropped. As it turns out, the appeal is pending; the game is on. Those who...
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Beware the libel
Simon Singh, a British journalist and a popularizer of science, is fighting a lawsuit. In his article for the Guardian, Singh wrote that the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) promoted bogus...
View ArticleAnti-Anti-Olympic Bylaw in BC Unconstitutional?
The CBC reports: Anti-Olympic signs could mean jail: rights group (Oct 9): A proposed B.C. law would allow municipal officials to enter homes to seize unauthorized and possibly anti-Olympic signs on...
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Don’t hate, U of O Provost warns U.S. pundit
When the University of Ottawa Campus Conservatives invited U.S. political pundit, Ann Coulter, to speak, they had to know she would attract attention. Coulter has always been outspokenly controversial...
View ArticleWorld Institute for Research and Publication (WIRP) Presentations
I presented a couple papers this morning at the Annual Meeting of the World Institute for Research and Publication – Law. You can read more about the conference over at Slaw. The presentations, with...
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