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States Of Emergency - Moderating Their Effects On Human Rights, Venkat Iyer Oct 1999

States Of Emergency - Moderating Their Effects On Human Rights, Venkat Iyer

Dalhousie Law Journal

There has been a runaway proliferation of emergency regimes worldwide in recent decades. This, coupled with the high incidence of human rights abuses which accompany them, has made states of emergency a matter of increasing concern among human rights policymakers and monitors. The author evaluates the various measures that have been taken by the international community to moderate the effects of emergencies, and outlines possible future strategies to increase the effectiveness of such measures.


Annotated Language Laws Of Canada: Constitutional, Federal, Provincial And Territorial Laws, Teresa Scassa Apr 1999

Annotated Language Laws Of Canada: Constitutional, Federal, Provincial And Territorial Laws, Teresa Scassa

Dalhousie Law Journal

Many of Canada's language laws represent an attempt by governments to articulate national or provincial linguistic identities. How fitting, therefore, that Annotated Language Laws of Canada is a work which is itself in search of an identity. There is, in fact, some dissonance between what this book claims to be and what it actually is. Although its cover suggests that it is part of a series of "New Canadian Perspectives," there is little that is new (in the sense of original) in the work, other than the actual compilation. As for perspectives-one of the most striking absences in this work …


Re Canada Post Corp And Cupw, Innis Christie Feb 1999

Re Canada Post Corp And Cupw, Innis Christie

Innis Christie Collection

Union national policy grievance dated November 25, 1998, alleging breach of the Collective Agreement between the parties bearing the date January 31, 1995, and in particular of Article 12, in that in announcing the creation of its "Simplified Registered Mail Service" project, the Employer indicated that new positions created under this project would not be preferred assignments although, the Union alleges, the work in question corresponds with the duties of a preferred assignment within the meaning of Article 12. The Union requests a declaratory decision that the work in question be performed in registration sections by PO4's in preferred assignments, …