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Warrant Canaries Beyond The First Amendment: A Comment, Jonathon Penney Jan 2014

Warrant Canaries Beyond The First Amendment: A Comment, Jonathon Penney

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Warrant canaries have emerged as an intriguing tool for Internet companies to provide some measure of transparency for users while also complying with national security laws. Though there is at least a reasonable argument for the legality of warrant canaries in the U.S. based primarily on First Amendment "compelled speech" doctrine, the same cannot be said for the use of warrant canaries in other "Five Eyes” intelligence agency countries — United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia — where the legality of warrant canaries has yet to be examined in either cases or scholarship. This comment, which provides an overview …


The Right To Safe Water And Crown-Aboriginal Fiduciary Law: Litigating A Resolution To The Public Health Hazards Of On-Reserve Water Problems, Constance Macintosh Jan 2014

The Right To Safe Water And Crown-Aboriginal Fiduciary Law: Litigating A Resolution To The Public Health Hazards Of On-Reserve Water Problems, Constance Macintosh

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Canada is at a crossroads. The gap between our national self-image as a country that respects human rights and the reality of socio-economic inequality and exclusion demands a re-engagement with the international human rights project and a recommitment to the values of social justice and equality affirmed in the early years of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This book sketches a blueprint for reconceiving and retrieving social rights in diverse spheres of human rights practice in Canada, both political and legal. Leading academics and activists explore how the Charter and administrative decision making should protect social rights …


The Making Of A Myth: Unreliable Data On Access To Palliative Care In Canada, Jocelyn Downie, Georgia Lloyd-Smith Jan 2014

The Making Of A Myth: Unreliable Data On Access To Palliative Care In Canada, Jocelyn Downie, Georgia Lloyd-Smith

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Assisted death is now the subject of conversation in the media, in public meetings, and around kitchen tables across the country. A frequent part of many conversations about assisted death law reform is access to quality palliative care in Canada. Throughout the literature and other forms of media, the claim is made that only 16-30% of Canadians have access to palliative care (or, its derivative, 70% are without access). The “16-30%” claim has been widely accepted as a fact. But is it, in fact, true? We are driven to the conclusion that the oft-repeated claim that only 16-30% of Canadians …


Achieving National Altruistic Self-Sufficiency In Human Eggs For Third-Party Reproduction In Canada, Jocelyn Downie Jan 2014

Achieving National Altruistic Self-Sufficiency In Human Eggs For Third-Party Reproduction In Canada, Jocelyn Downie

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To avoid the commercialization of reproduction, the Canadian Assisted Human Reproduction Act (AHR Act 2004) prohibits the purchase of human eggs. We endorse this legal prohibition and moreover believe that this facet of the law should not be allowed to have as an unintended consequence an increase in transnational trade in human eggs. In an effort to avoid this consequence, and to be consistent with the AHR Act, we advocate a system of national altruistic self-sufficiency. This article briefly outlines a number of strategies to increase the domestic altruistic supply of third-party eggs and decrease the domestic demand for third-party …


Arctic Climate Governance: Can The Canary In The Coal Mine Lift Canada’S Head Out Of The Sand(S)?, Meinhard Doelle Jan 2014

Arctic Climate Governance: Can The Canary In The Coal Mine Lift Canada’S Head Out Of The Sand(S)?, Meinhard Doelle

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This paper considers Canada’s climate policy at the federal and territorial levels of government in light of the accelerated impacts and vulnerability of Canada’s Arctic region. The paper considers the level of awareness of current and expected future climate impacts in the Arctic, and the effect of this awareness on climate policy. Climate policy is considered in three broad areas, climate adaptation, climate mitigation and the effect on each jurisdiction’s development path. The paper concludes that there is good awareness of the current and predicted future impacts of climate change in all jurisdictions studied. For reasons explored in the paper, …