UNB Law is hiring for up to two (2) tenure-track positions. Come work with us!
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
Murray & Warchuk on Outster of Judicial Review Clauses and the Common Law
Philip Murray (University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law; University of Cambridge - Robinson College, Cambridge) & Paul Warchuk (University of New Brunswick - Fredericton - Faculty of Law) have posted Ouster Clauses and the…
ICYMI: My piece in the National Post addressing some of the myths being spread about the "notwithstanding clause" to justify its widespread use. nationalpost.com/opinion/leon...
I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
Two new papers find renewables are good insurance (they stabilize electricity price volatility in welfare improving ways)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The Faculty of Arts at UWaterloo is pushing through a 'reorganization' plan that will - administratively, at least - collapse a number of its departments into 'schools'. Problems abound with both the process and the plan. A long thread... 1/n
The Law Society of Alberta has disbarred both John Carpay and Jay Cameron of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms for hiring a private investigator to surveil Manitoba Court of King's Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal. documents.lawsociety.ab.ca/wp-content/u...
“Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty”
… or how to lose government contracts all over the world in one easy step. 🖕🏾🖕🏾
www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science...
"... standard LLMs outperform LRMs at low complexity, LRMs excel at moderate complexity, and both collapse at high complexity"
"This was not a single lapse in judgment by a single individual. This was a systemic collapse.”
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for
Haibatullah Akhundzada, Supreme Leader of the Taliban, and
Abdul Hakim Haqqani, Chief Justice of the Taliban,
for the crime against humanity of persecution on gender grounds.
www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...
1/ We're hiring two (2) Staff Lawyers! The Staff Lawyer (Public Legal Education) will primarily work to enhance public understanding of the litigation efforts of Egale Canada as well as other key legal issues for 2SLGBTQI communities in Canada.
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Federal Court never fully adjudicated the application of Rebel News and True North Centre because the application was struck out as moot against the objections of both entities.
www.canlii.org/en/ca/fct/do...
The motions judge also questioned whether the Commission even has jurisdiction to control the post-debate media scrum.
The injunction order in 2019 concerned "accreditation" and the opportunity to "attend and cover" the debates, including the post-debate scrum. The Court did not comment on the number of questions a media outlet should be permitted to ask as part of that coverage.
www.canlii.org/en/ca/fct/do...
CANADIAN REPORTER: Trump's tone on Canada has shifted. He stopped talking about Canada becoming the 51st state.
LEAVITT: I would reject that the president's position on Canada has shifted. Perhaps he just hasn't been asked about it. He believes Canadians would benefit from becoming the 51st state.
SCC majority concludes that the use of the balance of probabilities standard in prison disciplinary proceedings violates Charter ss 11(d) and 7 - presumption of innocence. Important decision for prison law with some stare decisis thrown in for good measure. decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-...
As the voice of the legal profession in Canada, the Canadian Bar Association stands in firm support of the rule of law, judicial independence and the right to counsel—principles that are fundamental to any democracy.
Self-professed "deep and abiding interest in democracy" + dad was a judge + university thesis on "democratic institutions" + took constitutional law and administrative law = real stake or genuine interest
A very permissive public interest standing decision -- ¶124-125
The Federal Court has dismissed the application in MacKinnon challenging the Jan 2025 prorogation of Parliament. Decision here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/m95bv.... Analysis to follow!
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
This letter violates the First Amendment. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
