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CANADA: Access to information: law and reality miles apartDate:03/03/2009 Imagine a lawyer heading into court to argue a case without being able to read the court file or the documents being entered as evidence...
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Tuesday, 3 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CANADA: B.C. Court of Appeal rules against BCTF and HEU in freedom-of-expression caseDate:09/02/2009 The B...
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Monday, 9 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Canada: Court to rule on 'tidal wave' of press-freedom cases Date:27/05/2009 The value that Canadians place on the freedom of the press will be put to the test in five media rights cases that dominate the Supreme Court of Canada docket this year...
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Wednesday, 27 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CANADA: Critics pan Montreal's cop slur bylawDate:30/01/2009 A move by Montreal to make it illegal to insult a police officer is drawing ridicule and free-speech warnings...
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Friday, 30 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Canada: Don't rush to ban the burkaDate:06/07/2009 The President of France, Nicholas Sarkozy, recently commented that the burka – the full-body covering worn by some Muslim women - is not welcome in France...
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Monday, 6 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CANADA: Green meets read at Freedom to Read WeekDate:20/02/2009 Environmentalism and free speech both have their champions, but seldom are the issues joined in a single rallying cry...
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Friday, 20 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CANADA: High court ponders whether access to information a rightDate:09/12/2008 The Supreme Court of Canada, in a massive legal challenge Thursday that is drawing more than a dozen interveners, will consider whether access-to-information laws, which permit the public to see documents that the state seeks to keep secret, are so restrictive that they violate freedom of expression...
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Tuesday, 9 December 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CANADA: Judge finds Ahenakew not guilty in 2nd hate trialDate:24/02/2009 David Ahenakew, a former senator with the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, has been found not guilty of wilfully promoting hatred against Jewish people...
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Tuesday, 24 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CANADA: Justify why libel law needs change, top court tells mediaDate:19/02/2009 The countrys top judges, faced with an appeal that could establish a new defence against defamation lawsuits, have challenged Canadian media organizations to justify why journalists should be given a greater right to be wrong...
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Thursday, 19 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CANADA: Media lose appeal of news blackoutDate:27/01/2009 Several media organizations, including The Associated Press, lost an appeal Monday to lift a news blackout on a prominent terrorism case in Canada, but lawyers for the media said the court ruling is a partial victory for journalists reporting on preliminary court hearings...
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Tuesday, 27 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CANADA: Native chiefs accuse CBC of hateful online commentsDate:12/02/2009 A group of Manitoba native chiefs is urging that hate charges be filed against the CBC for what it called racist and hateful comments posted on the broadcasters website...
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Thursday, 12 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CANADA: No fare: Atheist bus ads get booted from busesDate:24/02/2009 Public transit authorities in the cities of Ottawa, Vancouver, and Halifax have decided to censor atheist bus advertisements...
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Tuesday, 24 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CANADA: No fare: Atheist bus ads get booted from busesDate:24/02/2009 Public transit authorities in the cities of Ottawa, Vancouver, and Halifax have decided to censor atheist bus advertisements...
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Tuesday, 24 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CANADA: No More Freedom of Expression on University Campuses? Date:03/02/2009 It's come to my attention that universities are the breeding grounds for limitations of human rights; one group of people or another is constantly being treated as unequal...
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Tuesday, 3 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Canada: Supreme Court upholds freedom of expressionDate:13/07/2009 The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled in favour of the Canadian Federation of Students-BC and the BC Teachers' Federation in their fight, for the right, to advertise on public transit...
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Monday, 13 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CANADA: Update libel law, lawyers argueDate:19/02/2009 OTTAWA -- The press cannot continue to fearlessly publish tough stories which better society unless the courts modernize the countrys archaic libel and defamation laws, the Supreme Court of Canada was told yesterday...
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Thursday, 19 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Pro-Hamas demonstrations in Montreal: Reasonable accommodation? How about accommodating reason!Date:19/01/2009 The spate of pro-Hamas demonstrations in Montreal over the past weeks raises questions that should bother us as a community regardless of where one stands on the conflict in the Middle East...
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Monday, 19 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Take hate speech out of Canada rights code: reportDate:24/11/2008 Hate-speech provisions should be cut out of Canadian human rights law because they end up leading to government repression, a report commissioned by the Canadian Human Rights Commission recommended on Monday...
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Monday, 24 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
The Net in Canada: a black hole in cyberspace?Date:28/09/2010 The scope of the Freedom of Expression in Canada will be tested when the Supreme Court of Canada rules on Crookes vs Newton, the freedom of speech case that’s due to be heard in Ottawa on December 7...
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Tuesday, 28 September 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Canada Slams Door in Chicago Reporter's Face Date:11/02/2010 Canada is rarely mentioned as an oppressive country that limits freedom of expression and press...
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Thursday, 11 February 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Canada Supreme Court hears media appealDate:16/11/2009 News blackouts unjustifiably prevented the public from learning why charges were dropped or suspended for some terror suspects, media lawyers told Canada's Supreme Court on Monday...
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Monday, 16 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Canadian's jihadi videos were free speech, not terrorism, court toldDate:04/02/2009 The accused Maskinongé terrorist created videos with titles such as Jihad Academy and Mujahideen Secrets using a souped-up computer in his basement apartment in the sleepy Quebec town...
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Wednesday, 4 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Ad IDEM/Canadian Media Lawyers AssociationDate:21/11/2008 Ad IDEM / Canadian Media Lawyers Association (CMLA) is an organization of lawyers who represent media in promoting freedom of expression - hence its original and alternate name: Ad IDEM, or, Advocates In Defence of Expression in the Media...
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Friday, 21 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium and others v Minister of Justice and othersDate:24/11/2008 In this case, the Supreme Court of Canada had to rule whether or not the administration of Customs legislation was oppressive and in violation of the appellants' freedom of expression...
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Monday, 24 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CanadaDate:15/04/2011 Domestic, regional and international obligations related to freedom of expression…
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Friday, 15 April 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Irwin Toy Ltd. v. Attorney General of Quebec [1989]Date:12/07/2010 In this case the Supreme Court of Canada set out the principles and values underlying the country's protection of freedom of expression. …
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Monday, 12 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Ford v. Quebec (Attorney General)Date:03/09/2010 In this landmark decision of the Supreme Court of Canada the court struck down Bill 101 of the 'Charter of the French Language' a law restricting the use of commercial signs written in languages other than French...
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Friday, 3 September 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
BCGEU v. British ColumbiaDate:01/11/2010 BCGEU v. British Columbia is a leading case from the Supreme Court of Canada on the right to picket as a freedom of expression protected by…
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Monday, 1 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
R v KeegstraDate:11/02/2011 The Canadian criminal code made it an offence to communicate statements in pubic conversation wilfully promoting hatred against identifiable group...
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Friday, 11 February 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Toronto Star v Canada Date:17/02/2011 The case of Toronto Star v Canada (2010 SCC 21) concerns the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in which they upheld Article 517 of the Criminal Code of a federal law which bans the media from reporting evidence from bail hearings...
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Thursday, 17 February 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
R v Labaye [2005]Date:10/03/2011 The defendant was convicted of keeping a 'common bawdy house' for the 'practice of acts of indecency' under the Criminal Code and appealed...
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Thursday, 10 March 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
CJFE gives Harper government failing grade on access to informationDate: 18/05/2011 When it comes to access to information, Canada has received an F minus ...
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Wednesday, 18 May 2011Last Modified:
Wednesday, 29 June 2011
Vancouver: Government undermining freedom of speech - 08/08/2011Date: 08 August 2011 "Freedom of expression and access to information are core democratic values to which Canada presumably ascribes...
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Monday, 8 August 2011Last Modified:
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
Freedom of Expression on the InternetREPORT: "Whenever new communications and media platforms have been introduced, their innovation and application was met with scepticism, fear or outright banning by the ruling parties and authorities who feared the unknown medium, and its capacity to oust them from power...
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Thursday, 8 March 2012Last Modified:
Thursday, 8 March 2012
Tories repeal part of rights act banning hate speechDate: 8 June 2012 - "The federal Conservatives voted late Wednesday to repeal controversial sections of the Canadian Human Rights Act banning hate speech on the Internet, backing a bill they say promotes freedom of expression...
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Friday, 8 June 2012Last Modified:
Tuesday, 19 June 2012