- Blocking Public Participation
The Use of Strategic Litigation to Silence Political Expression
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
Examines the different types of litigation and causes of action that frequently form the basis of SLAPPs (Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation), and how these lawsuits transform political disputes into legal cases, thereby blocking political engagement.
- Dark history of Canada's First Nations pass system uncovered in documentary
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Little known policy restricted people living on reserves, enforced for nearly 60 years.
- Life Sentence
Stories from four decades of court reporting - or, how I fell out of love with the Canadian justice system (especially judges)
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
Through an examination of notable trials she has covered, Chrisitie Blatchford makes the case that Canada's judicial system is out of control and often inept. Judges, she says, are the new senators, unelected, unaccountable and overly entitled, while lawyers are often self-satisfied and contemptuous of anyone who is not a member of the club.
- Only in America: an Indiscreet Selfie Can Put A Kid in Prison
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Did you know that if you are an American under 18 years old and you use your cell phone to send a nude "selfie" of yourself to a friend, you can be convicted of manufacturing and distributing "child pornography" and sent to prison? This is how expansively prosecutors, whose main purpose in life is to ruin as many people as possible, interpret laws passed to protect children from sexual exploitation.
- Ontario Bar Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
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