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Health issue has potential to take down Harper

Publication: Toronto Star

In this Op-Ed, Amir Attaran, Common Law Section, comments on health care in relation to the federal electoral campaign. 

Vanessa Gruben: What's missing from Ontario's IVF policy

Publication: Ottawa Citizen

In this Op-Ed, Vanessa Gruben, Common Law Section, discusses the Ontario Ministry of Health's announcement of its policy on in-vitro fertilization (IVF) funding.

Veiled TPP Deal Holds Hidden Privacy Risks

Publication: TheTyee

Michael Geist, Common Law Section, discusses the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Canadian Prime Minister's Office Slowed Syrians' Asylum Claims

Publication: The New York Times

Jennifer Bond, Faculty of Law, comments on the process of refugee claims from Syrians.“There was a delay during a time when there was a desperate need for Syrians to get protection.”

Why banishing homegrown terrorists will backfire

Publication: Macleans

Craig Forcese, Common Law Section, comments on the citizenship revocation policy. “You’re taking a person with demonstrable violent propensities, based on their convictions in Canada, and you’re going to set them loose in a particularly vulnerable environment, which begs the question: Is the Canadian taxpayer not just paying their plane ticket to engage in the terrorist fight again?”

Health top concern to Canadians but politicians ignoring issue, poll shows

Publication: Toronto Star

Amir Attaran, Common Law Section, discusses the new public opinion poll by Ekos that shows that health is the most important issue to Canadians and how this importance is not reflected in the federal electoral campaigns. “Our poll results clearly show that any politician brave enough to campaign on health right now would be campaigning on clearly the most important issue to Canadians. Lamentably, none of the political parties have done this.”

 

Race to the Hill: How will refugee report impact campaign?

Publication: CTV News - Race to the Hill

Jennifer Bond, Common Law Section, discusses the role of the Syrian refugee crisis in relation to the federal electoral campaign.

'Cooling off' period among new CMA recommendations on assisted dying

Publication: CTV News

Amir Attaran, Common Law Section, discusses physician-assisted death and the Canadian Medical Association’s new recommendations. “In the vast majority of legal cases that looked at doctors and conscientious objection, the judgement has gone against the doctors. And most of the doctors’ thinking on getting conscientious objection is wishful thinking, it is legally ignorant, and the CMA’s guidelines unfortunately is worse than nothing.”

Supreme Court tackles thorny question of who qualifies as a ‘status Indian’
Publication: iPolitics
Joseph Magnet, Common Law Section, comments on the question of who qualifies as a ‘status Indian’. “Right now you’ve got a drain of under-serviced people who are underdeveloped and are absorbing social welfare costs. These are people with potential. That potential cannot be realized if they can’t be properly educated, cared for, with appropriate health care facilities, treated in the same way everybody else gets to develop.”

Bruno Massé: 5 raisons de se débarrasser des conservateurs

Publication: Huffington Post Québec

Cet article inclus une citation d’Errol Mendes, Section common law, sur la campagne électorale fédérale.

Safe harbour' data ruling leaves U.S. companies in legal limbo

Publication: CBCNews

Tamir Israel, Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, comments on a court ruling regarding the agreement allowing internet companies to transfer data to the United States, which violates Europeans' rights. "This is definitely difficult for companies to deal with and it's not a problem of their making either. It's the governments' laws."

Q&A with Craig Forcese on national security and Canada's antiterrorism legislation

Publication: Montreal Gazette

Craig Forcese, Common Law Section, discusses “False Security — the Radicalization of Canadian Anti-terrorism,” the new book he co-wrote and how security issues have been addressed during this election campaign and in the platforms of the major political parties.

Power Play: How will countries respond?

Publication: CTV News - Power Play

(1:30-5:06) Carissima Mathen, Common Law Section, comments on the legality and constitutionality of citizen revocation. "It really shows that the law impacts citizens very differently on the basis of factors that have no relation to the seriousness of the offenses that they’ve committed."

Critics raise data privacy concerns in Trans-Pacific Partnership deal

Publication: CBC Ottawa

Michael Geist, Common Law Section, comments on the data privacy concerns in Trans-Pacific Partnership deal. "We're dealing with just summary documents. The devil is in the details."

5 things to know about the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal

Publication: Toronto Star

Michael Geist, Common Law Section, comments on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. “There isn’t a ton of solid economic evidence that this is either a huge boon or a huge harm.”

CBC shoots itself in the foot with election coverage: Geist

Publication: The Toronto Star

In this Op-Ed, Michael Geist, Common Law Section, discusses the CBC's role in the federal election campaign. "The most puzzling decision has been its refusal to broadcast debates hosted by other organizations."

Pakistan judge orders state to enforce climate policies

Publication: Toronto Star

Lynda Collins, Common Law Section, comments on the decision to give the Pakistani judiciary direction on climate change and its significance to Canada. “We could certainly see a similar lawsuit in Canada, with a similar result. Like Pakistan and Holland, our Charter protects the rights to life and security of the person, and federal inaction on climate change is a clear threat to both.”

Ottawa program offering free legal advice for Syrian refugee sponsors expanding nationally

Publication: CBC Ottawa

Jennifer Bond, Faculty of Law, comments on the national expansion of the Refugee Sponsorship Support Program. "Like many Canadians, members of the bar, of the legal profession, are feeling incredibly moved and motivated to try to do something in light of an unprecedented crisis."

Refugee 613, United for Refugees programs unveiled at Ottawa City Hall

Publication: CBC Ottawa

 This article mentions the University’s Refugee Sponsorship Support Program, which has brought together a group of about 40 lawyers, law students and sponsorship specialists to work pro-bono to assist those wishing to sponsor a refugee to come to Canada.

Cet article mentionne le Programme d’appui au parrainage de réfugiés de l’Université qui a fourni des conseils juridiques aux parrains potentiels, grâce au travail pro-bono de 40 avocats, étudiants en droit, et spécialistes en parrainage de réfugiés.

Ottawa moves to revoke citizenship of Canadian-born convicted terrorist

Publication: CBC News

Carissima Mathen, Common Law Section, comments on the federal government's intention to target Canadian-born Saad Gaya, convicted terrorist, for revocation of citizenship. "This case really shows how arbitrary the application of the law is, and it's really through a pure accident of birth that someone is a dual citizen."

Ontario to cover in-vitro fertilization treatments

Publication: Toronto Star

Amir Attaran, Common Law Section, comments on the decision of Ontario to cover in-vitro fertilization treatments. He was also on the expert advisory panel for the decision.

Is the Harper government expecting the courts to quash its ‘exile’ law?

Publication: iPolitics

Errol Mendes, Common Law Section, comments on the challenge of the constitutionality of the Bill C-24, the Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act, in court.

Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership really a good deal for Canada? Or is it just 'NAFTA on steroids'?

Publication: The National Post

Michael Geist, Common Law Section, comments on the implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. “What it does is increase costs and restrictions on use of works that have enjoyed protection for decades.”

Canada working to revoke the citizenship of nine more convicted terrorists

Publication: The National Post

Craig Forcese, Common Law Section, comments on the federal government's ability to revoke citizenship of convicted terrorists.