Nos profs dans les médias

Time for Ottawa to Stand up to Purdue Pharma, Say Physicians (The Epoch Times)
Amir Attaran, Faculty of Law, comments on the decision by Purdue Pharma to no longer be marketing opioids to doctors in the United States.

Amazon, Google Warn Canadian Website Blacklist Could Kill Jobs (HuffPost Canada)
This article mentions a blog posted by Michael Geist, Faculty of Law, concerning the coalition including global high-tech heavyweights like Amazon and Google coming out against a proposal to create a website-blocking system in Canada.

Stateless persons who are born and bred in Malaysia (The Malaysian Insight)
Opinion piece by Jamie Chai Yun Liew, Faculty of Law, on Malaysia’s statelessness problem

Quelles conséquences pour les faux avocats? (Radio-Canada)
Alain Roussy, Faculté de droit, discute de l’enquête sur la pratique illégale d’Yvonne Dubé qui s'est faussement présentée comme avocate de septembre 2011 à mars 2012.

Updated privacy policies after Facebook scandal leave room for improvement (CTV News Toronto)
Teresa Scassa, Faculty of Law, comments on the privacy policies of social media, such as Facebook and Linkedin.

Conservatives, NDP says they've never accessed Facebook profiles to microtarget voters, Liberals point to privacy policy (Hill Times)
Michael Geist, Faculty of Law, comments on the Cambridge Analytica /Facebook story

What the CRTC's Wi-Fi-first MVNO decision means for Canadian consumers (Mobile Syrup)
This article mentions an Opinion Editorial signed by Michael Geist, Faculty of Law.

Updated privacy policies from Microsoft, LinkedIn and Slack leave much to be desired (Toronto Star)
Teresa Scassa, Faculty of Law, comments on the updated privacy policies from Microsoft, LinkedIn and Slack.

Big telcos not required to sell wholesale network access to tower-less rivals, CRTC says (CBC News)
Michael Geist, Faculty of Law, comments on the CRTC refusing to mandate big telcos to sell wholesale access to their wireless networks to rivals without towers of their own.

Plongée dans les traditions anishinaabes de l'eau (Radio-Canada)
Aimée Craft, Faculté de droit, fait le point sur l'eau, quelque chose qui occupe une place spéciale dans les traditions anishinaabes.

100,000 Canadians have voiced their thoughts on FairPlay Canada's anti-piracy website blocking proposal (Mobile Syrup)
Michael Geist, Faculty of Law, shares his thoughts on FairPlay Canada’s anti-piracy campaign.

Fausse avocate: la communauté juridique ébranlée (Droit Inc)
Alain Roussy, Faculté de droit commente sur le cas d’Yvonne Dubé qui s'est faussement présentée comme avocate et a pratiqué le droit sans autorisation de septembre 2011 à mars 2012.

Quelles conséquences pour les faux avocats? (Sympatico)
Alain Roussy, Faculté de droit, commente sur la pratique illégale du droit de la directrice générale des Grands Frères Grandes Soeurs de l'Outaouais, Yvonne Dubé.

Sidewalk Labs pledges 'open' approach to data, but that's no guarantee they'll actually share it (Financial Post)
Teresa Scassa, Faculty of Law, comments on the commitment to an “open” approach concerning Sidewalk Labs in Toronto.

NDP MP Erin Weir met with harassment investigator last week (Hill Times)
Michelle Flaherty, Faculty of Law, is the investigator concerning the allegations against Erin Weir for engaging in harassing behavior towards women.

Concerns raised about growing trend to oral judgments at Supreme Court (The Lawyer's Daily)
Carissima Mathen, Faculty of Law, comments on the questions and concerns being raised by Supreme Court watchers about the top court's growing practice of disposing of cases orally from the bench, without subsequently issuing written reasons.

Premier Doug Ford? Not quite so fast. (Toronto Star)
Penny Collenette, Faculty of Law, shares her opinion on the June provincial election potentially featuring Doug Ford.

ANALYSIS: Where do Parliament Hill's investigations into sexual harassment stand? (Global News)
Michelle Flaherty, Faculty of Law, is the investigator concerning the allegations against Erin Weir for engaging in harassing behaviour towards women.

Taman: Here's why Jim Watson is wrong about a women's bureau at city hall (Ottawa Citizen)
Opinion Editorial by Emilie Taman, Faculty of Law.

Costco under investigation by Ontario forensic team over drug company payments (CBC News)
Amir Attaran, Faculty of Law, discusses the investigation concerning Costco after they received $1.2 million in potentially illegal payments from a generic drug maker.

Group urges clean-tech tax and regulatory breaks (GlobeAdvisor)
Stewart Elgie, Faculty of Law, comments on the report calling on Canada to act now on clean technology.

Geneva ITC calls for opening of Sri Lanka e-commerce gateways (DailyFT)
Michael Geist, Faculty of Law, comments on e-commerce opportunities and challenges presented in Sri Lanka.  

Report calls on Canada to act now on clean technology (CTV News Toronto)
Stewart Elgie, Faculty of Law, comments on the report calling on Canada to act now on clean technology

Academics explore cross cultural criminal justice system (Saskatoon StarPhoenix)
Larry Chartrand, Faculty of Law, discusses the cross-cultural criminal justice system.

NDP MP Erin Weir still in the dark about harassment allegations, yet to speak to investigator (Hill Times)
This article mentions Michelle Flaherty, Faculty of Law, in her role as an investigator for the NDP.