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Organized Hypocrisy
I want to come back to the issue of human smuggling. I posted yesterday about R. v. Appulonappa, 2013 BCSC 31, a decision of the B.C. Supreme Court striking down the provision of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA among friends or former federal court clerks) which criminalized aiding people to come to Canada without the papers… Continue reading
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Happy New Year!
Happy 2013 to all my readers! I haven’t been posting much of late due to holiday craziness, but then again I doubt reading up on constitutional law was really a big part of your holiday plans. My apologies, and a tip of the hat, to those for whom it was. I will resume normal schedule… Continue reading
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The Sincerest Form of Flattery?
Imitation is said to be the sincerest form of flattery, but I think that outright theft is even better―it is, after all, imitation pushed to its logical utmost. Well, I was a very flattered man yesterday, upon discovering that a self-described “Canadian Legal Directory,” legalfinder.ca, had published verbatim two of my recent posts (the one… Continue reading
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Clawbies Nominations
The Canadian legal blogosphere hasn’t Hollywood’s glamour just yet (we’re working on it, I hear), but it does have its own yearly awards, the Clawbies. Here are my nominations, in no particular order. Michael Geist’s Blog: hardly needs a presentation, but it is an invaluable resource for IP and internet-related news and analysis. The Court: all Supreme… Continue reading
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Opus 100
This is my 100th post. I would like to take the opportunity to thank my readers, especially those who, in one way or another, have taken the time to tell me that I was doing something right and/or to keep going. On the whole, I would rate this blogging adventure as a time-consuming success. Despite… Continue reading
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This Is Not a Post
I’m sorry I’ve been silent these last few days, and will still be this weekend. I hope to resume normal blogging on Monday. Continue reading
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Happy Canada Day!
A few quotations to indulge, for a day, in that un-Canadian feeling, patriotism. “There is room enough in this country for one great free people; but there is not room enough, under the same flag and the same laws, for two or three angry, suspicious, obstructive nationalities.” – Thomas D’Arcy McGee “[L]et your motto be… Continue reading
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What the Fuck?!
Adam Liptak has an interesting article in the New York Times today, looking at the use of “[t]he most versatile of the classic Anglo-Saxon swear words” before and by the Supreme Court of the United States. That Court, it turns out is rather prudish: after its decision in Cohen v. California, in 1971, holding that the slogan… Continue reading
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Introduction: Why I Blog
Anyone who considers starting a blog must ask him- or herself whether there is really a need, or at least a remotely decent reason for doing it. There are (almost) hundreds of millions of blogs out there, so why add to this mass? Shameless self-promotion is tempting of course, but it’s not a very good… Continue reading
Double Aspect 