🚨Windsor Law is hiring! 🚨 @windsorlaw.bsky.social is looking for 4 asst/assoc profs who bring social justice & critical perspectives to our core curriculum, esp environmental law, torts, constitutional, family, evidence, int'l trade & Indigenous law. Deadline: Sep 24 www.uwindsor.ca/faculty/recr...

We are delighted to share the news that the second edition of The Canadian Constitutional Law Open Access Casebook (co-edited by Richard Moon, Howard Kislowicz, and Asha Kaushal) is now available on CanLII! #constitutionallaw #legalcommentary zurl.co/1159f

The Border Is Invading America www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...

Police interference w/ harm reduction services is a growing crisis. Surveilling services, arresting clients & other abuses cause service avoidance, violate peoples right to healthcare & highlights urgent need for binding non-interference policies. @filtermag.bsky.social @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social

The Federal Court clearly sees the risk of persecution in the Trump era. When will @mark-carney.bsky.social’s government do the right thing & scrap our #STCA with the US?

“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” writes Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. “I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.”

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.

I'm one of the 412 lawyers, academics, human rights advocates and other experts who have signed an open letter to PM Carney demanding that Canada do everything in its power to stop the genocide in Gaza and support efforts to bring those responsible to account www.alexneve.ca/blog/prime-m...

Congrats to shortlisted authors & presses! Margaret Boittin ‪@cambridgeup.bsky.social‬‬ Elaine Craig @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social A Iavarone-Turcotte @pulaval.bsky.social @james-kelly.bsky.social @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @jcyliew.bsky.social @fernpub.bsky.social MJ Mossman @wlupress.bsky.social

These Ford government proposals to give itself even more control over how it appoints lower-court judges are being debated in the shadow of Premier's recent comments that judicial independence is a "joke." #ONpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

The Ford government continues its efforts to undermine the integrity of the process for appointing judges to the ONCJ. The rule of law requires judicial independence and is best served by a merit-based appointment process insulated from political interference. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

I'm pleased to announce that the Canadian Law and Society Association's prize committee has decided on its shortlist of books for the W. Wesley Pue Book Prize. The winner will be announced at the conference to be held at the U of Saskatchewan College of Law, 11-13 June 2025. @bbryder.bsky.social

Ontario's Premier – calling judicial independence “a joke” – says he supports U.S.-style elected judges and that many on the bench are “bleeding hearts” afflicted by “ideology,” who allow too many accused criminals out on bail: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

I hope the PM will consider forming a national unity Cabinet with members from outside the Liberal party. Seems especially important to improve representation from AB & SK. Perhaps invite Heather McPherson (NDP Edmonton Strathcona) and several Senators from AB & SK to join Cabinet?

In just 100 days, the Trump administration has inflicted enormous damage to human rights in the United States and around the world. To mark the first 100 days of President Trump's second term, Human Rights Watch has cataloged 100 of the administration’s human rights harms 🧵⤵️

NEW: The number of writers jailed around the world has increased for the sixth year in a row. Our latest #FreedomToWrite Index recorded at least 375 writers jailed for their work in 40 countries during 2024. Read more: pen.org/press-releas...

Trump’s expulsions are jaw-droppingly cruel. But they’re part of an American tradition | Steven Hahn

“The Govt has not — & cannot — identify any rational connection between antisemitism & the medical, scientific, technological, & other research it has frozen that aims to save American lives, foster American success, preserve security, & maintain our position as a global leader in innovation.”

Here I argue the provocative claim that there is some misleading content in the Conservative crime platform. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

"Our economy works best when trade is subject to the rule of law, not the whims of one man. Courts can bolster that vital principle by striking down Trump’s egregious tariff power grab." @IlyaSomin.bsky.social discusses the lawsuits challenging President Trump's IEEPA tariffs.

The Human Rights Legal Support Centre is seeking candidates for its full time Executive Director position. They are taking applications until May 9th, 2025 at 5pm. More details available on the Centre's website here: hrlsc.on.ca/about-us/car...

Lawyers for the Ontario government stated in court that the objective of the Community Care and Recovery Act was not to shut down supervised consumption sites, but simply to relocate them. Did counsel mislead the court by not sharing what it knew about the government's true policy objectives?

Update to this - the incoming president of the Advocates' Society, Sheree Conlon, has now resigned, citing her disagreement with how this was handled: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Today I, along with over 40 law professors from across the country, sent an open letter to @advocates-soc.bsky.social urging them to reconsider their decision to cancel a planned keynote talk by Tareq Hadhad, a Syrian-Canadian who is widely known as the founder of @peacebychocolate.bsky.social.

The Trump administration’s roundup of students who protested Israel’s bombardment of Gaza marks an astonishing, radical break with what one might justifiably think of as the central American idea. I wrote about it for @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Since our administration would not fight the Trump administration in court, the faculty had to assume the responsibility of doing so to protect academic freedom. www.reuters.com/world/us/col...

“Lawyers and big firms: For God’s sake, stand up for the legal profession, and for the Constitution. Defend the oath you took when you became officers of the court. If we stand together and fight, we will win.” - John W. Keker, Robert A. Van Nest and Elliot R. Peters

Dropped charges, police overreach: How the ‘Indigo 11’ case fell apart Thanks to Ashleigh Stewart for reporting and @bbryder.bsky.social for commentary. globalnews.ca/news/1110306...

Today PEN America joins the Student Press Law Center (@splc.org) and nine other free speech and journalism organizations to release a letter condemning the detention of Rumeysa Ozturk, reportedly based on opinions expressed in a student newspaper op-ed. pen.org/press-releas...

The court has granted an injunction! Safe Consumption Sites in Ontario will not be forced by law to close on Monday!

Please see the media statement on behalf of @tngcommunityto.bsky.social and the HIV Legal Network following the conclusion of court proceedings yesterday in the Charter challenge to Ontario’s Community Care and Recovery Act. www.hivlegalnetwork.ca/site/media-s...

This will be today’s thread for live-updates from the courthouse in the Charter Challenge to the Ontario law that will force many safe consumption sites in the province to close by the end of this month. #SaveOurSites #CTSontario #CTSsavesLives #CTScourtchallenge #SaveCTS #Ontario #ONpoli

PEN America: Lawyers and Courts Must Not Back Down as President Trump Issues Executive Order Calling for Sanctions and Investigations of Attorneys and Law Firms Full statement: pen.org/press-releas...

A constitutional challenge being heard today, brought forward by @tngcommunityto.bsky.social and two individual Applicants, will determine whether a number of life-saving supervised consumption sites in the province can continue to operate past the end of this month.

Very grateful to the thousands of Jewish professors, staff, and students who signed this principled, powerful, and justifiably angry letter.

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The Trump admin's thuggish letter to Columbia is garbage, legally speaking. The admin has no statutory authority to make these demands, and many of them are unconstitutional. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

"This Isn’t About Policy. It’s About Pandering." I'm grateful to @spacing.bsky.social for once again giving me the stage and space to make the necessary noise in response to this court decision. The fight isn’t over. h/t @uoftcities.bsky.social #BikeTO #VisionZero spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

Trump’s moves to curb independent media look familiar to the Hungarian journalist András Pethő: “The MAGA authorities have learned Orbán's lessons well.” theatln.tc/VlZjD1iB

Knight Institute statement. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

The subjugation of universities to official power is a hallmark of autocracy. No one should be under any illusions about what’s going on here. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...

Beloved Osgoode Hall Law School professor Alan Young co-founded the law school's Innocence Project and brought a series of ground-breaking Charter challenges to the criminalization of sex work and cannabis www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Lives are at risk, and we refuse to stay silent. On #HumanRightsDay, we reaffirm the right to health and dignity. Along with Ms. Resendes and Jean-Pierre Aubry Forgues, we filed a Charter Challenge against the Community Care and Recovery Act. Read more: tngcommunityto.org/News/Article...

Governments violate s.7 of the Charter when they put lives or health at risk irrationally, unnecessarily or disproportionately. Bill 212 is unprincipled in all of these ways. Great to see @cycletoronto.bsky.social, Paliare Roland and Ecojustice teaming up on the case. www.thestar.com/news/gta/cyc...

Important challenge to Alberta's Bill 26 launched. Check out the application to the ABKB at the link below. At stake are the rights of gender diverse youth to make fundamental choices about their bodies, their health care and their identities free of government interference.

Heartbroken by the passing of dear friend and colleague Alan Young. Alan saw paths to justice before the rest of us and pursued them with vigour and wit. Remembering many laughs. A huge legacy. He gave so much to all of us who had the privilege of working with him. www.thestar.com/news/ontario...