Faculty in the News

TPP's rules on intellectual property pulled into spotlight

Publication: Macleans

Michael Geist, Common Law Section, comments on the copyright provisions of the Transpacific Partnership. "What we're fundamentally talking about is establishing the rules of the road for virtually all Canadian business, for the Canadian economy and for much of the global economy for years and decades to come."

Michael Geist, Section de common law, commente les clauses de la propriété intellectuelle de le Partenariat transpacifique.

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Calgary prepares to welcome Syrian refugees

Publication: CTV News Calgary

Jennifer Bond, Common Law Section, comments on the private sponsorship process of refugess in Canada. “There are some complexities to the system. In fact, some streams of private sponsorship have a 90 to 95 percent failure rate.”

Why is Montreal dumping 8 billion litres of sewage into the St. Lawrence?

Publication: Global News

Lynda Collins, Common Law Section, comments on the decision for the city of Montreal to dump eight billion litres of untreated sewage into the St. Lawrence river. “Hopefully it will confirm the new federal government’s resolve to adequately fund those [infrastructure] initiatives”.

Harsh criticism- Canadian business leader against TPP trade deal

Publication: Radio Canada International

Michael Geist, Common Law Section, is quoted in this article on concerns surrounding the details of the Transpacific Partnership. "These are rules that create restrictions on a country's ability to establish privacy safeguards."

Canadian military can already house 12K Syrian refugees

Publication: CTV News

Jennifer Bond, Common Law Section comments on Canada's role in the Syrian Crisis. The University's Refugee Sponsorship Support Program is also mentioned. "I think we should feel confident that a lot of senior people have been put on this portfolio, today's subcommittee is filled with people who have both good portfolios to be at the table but also a lot of good individual personal experiences."

Advice for the new immigration minister

Publication: Ottawa Citizen

In this Op-Ed, co-author Jamie Liew, Common Law Section, discusses potential avenues that newly appointed Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, John McCallum, can take with his portfolio.

Pour une constitution bilingue en 2017

Publication: Le Droit

Dans cette lettre d'opinion, Linda Cardinal, École d'études politiques, Nathalie DesRosiers, John Mark Keyes, et François Larocque, Section Common Law, discutent de l'adoption de la version française des textes constitutionnels du Canada. 

Copyright Case Spotlights Canada's Digital Lock Problem

Publication: TheTyee.ca

In this Op-Ed, Michael Geist, Common Law Section, discusses a copyright ruling by an Ottawa small claims court.

Remembering the past and building towards a better future

Publication: The Fulcrum

Errol Mendes, Common Law Section, comments on modern forms of conflict. “(Today) you don’t have set pieces where armies line up against each other, like in the Korean War. Instead you have this guerrilla, asymmetrical type of warfare where (enemy combatants) hide amongst the civilian populations, as the Islamic State is doing in Iraq and Syria.” 

Officials 'working around the clock' on Syrian refugee plan, new immigration minister says

Publication: CBCNews

Peter Showler, Human Rights Research and Education Centre, comments on the Liberal government's plan to honour its promise to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada over the course of the next seven weeks. 

Critics cry foul as new Trans-Pacific Partnership details emerge

Publication: CBCNews

Michael Geist, Common Law Section, comments on concerns surrounding the details of the Transpacific Partnership. "These are rules that create restrictions on a country's ability to establish privacy safeguards."

TPP deal's data provisions could put personal info at risk, critics say

Publication: Toronto Star

Michael Geist, Common Law Section, comments on the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal and stemming concerns over the privacy of sensitive Canadian data. “There is, I think, real, legitimate concern that a country establishing these kinds of protections could find itself facing litigation from a company if they wanted to argue that this was costing them and that, in fact, the privacy protections that had been established were greater than necessary.”

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What Will Happen to the Senate?

Publication: CTV News - Canada AM

Carissima Mathen, Common Law Section, discusses the federal senate in relation to the newly elected majority Liberal Parliament

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Appointments wide-open for Trudeau to set ‘tone and direction’ of CRTC

Publication: iPolitics

Michael Geist, comments on the incoming federal goverment's role in shaping the direction of Canada’s communications regulator, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. “I don’t imagine things changing dramatically tomorrow when there are new ministers in place. But of course we’ve also heard it’s a government that wants to give more responsibility to the ministers, (…) they may well have an ability to put their stamp on the policy issues.”

Canada's new leader to step out on world stage

Publication: Yahoo! News

Carissima Mathen, Common Law Section, and David Runnalls, Department of Geography, comment on the incoming federal government. 

Major conference on military justice to be held in Ottawa Nov. 13

Publication: Ottawa Citizen

The Common Law Section of the Faculty of Law will be hosting the “Winds of Change” Inaugural Conference on Canadian Military Justice on November 13. This conference will bring judges, jurists, practitioners, scholars, students and persons interested into a forum to debate and exchange ideas for the reform of Canadian Military Law.

Ottawa panel to discuss Canada and the global campaign to ban “Killer Robots”

Publication: Ottawa Citizen

A panel entitled "Canada and the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots" will be held at the University on November 5th. The panel will discuss the effort to persuade governments to ban autonomous weapons that would select targets and use force without further human intervention or oversight. 

Power Play: How to ensure successful resettlement

Publication: CTV News

Jennifer Bond, Common Law Section, discusses Canada's commitment for helping to resettle refugees from Syria.

Lessons from the trenches of the government's appointments process

Publication: Macleans

Penny Collenette, Common Law Section, discusses her experience working as the director of appointments to former prime minister Jean Chrétien from 1993 to 1997 and lessons from her experence the incoming Liberal government should consider.

A new government, a new relationship with the courts

Publication: Ottawa Citizen

In this Op-Ed, Carissima Mathen, Common Law Section, discusses the incoming federal government and its potential stance in relation to the federal court system.

Charging a fee to get into carpool lane could help Ottawa congestion, prof says

Publication: CBC Ottawa

Stuart Elgie, Common Law Section, discusses a new kind of lane on Highway 417 in Ottawa that could help with the city's congestion issues. 

Trudeau faces demands to end an array of Harper-era security policies

Publication: iPolitics

Craig Forcese, Common Law Section, comments on the security policies of the federal government.

Craig Forcese, Section common law, commente les politiques de sécurité du gouvernement fédéral.

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Redorer l'image du Canada à l'étranger, premier objectif de Trudeau

Publication: Huffington Post Québec

Carissima Mathen, Section Common Law, et David Runnalls, Département de géographie, commente le nouveau gouvernement fédéral. 

Under Trudeau, a Battle over Internet and Cultural Policy Looms

Publication: TheTyee.ca

In this Op-Ed, Michael Geist, Common Law Section, discuses the Broadcasting Act in relation to the possibility of treating telecom and internet companies as cultural businesses and thereby require them to make Canadian content contributions similar to those paid by conventional broadcasters.

Lawyer in niqab case says Canada must confront anti-Muslim sentiment

Publication: The Globe and Mail

Jennifer Bond, Common Law Section, comments about lawyer Lorne Waldman, who represented Zunera Ishaq in the case dealing with the wearing of the niqbab during the citizenship oath. “He’s an excellent strategic thinker. I think that’s one reason he’s been involved in so many important cases. He’s able to see where a case has the potential to make a difference in Canadian society.”

Des péages sur les ponts pour limiter la circulation

Publication: La Presse

Stewart Elgie, Section Common Law, est mentionné dans cet article concernant les postes de péages sur les ponts qui ceinturent l'île de Montréal.

Tissue donors in short supply, especially in the GTA

Publication: Toronto Star

Jennifer Chandler, Common Law Section, comments on the influence an individual’s sense of belonging in the community has on the decision to donate human tissues. “To give a part of your body to the general pool, you need to feel a part of it.”

Bringing free legal know-how to refugee sponsors

Publication: Macleans

Jennifer Bond, Common Law Section, discusses the Refugee Hub, the University of Ottawa law school’s centre for refugee law and policy and the Refugee Sponsorship Support Program, which started out as a practical way to link legal expertise with private groups in Ottawa hoping to sponsor Syrian refugees coming to Canada, and is now being extended to cities across Canada.