As Canadians prepare for beach season, here’s a look at the laws, the history and some of the controversy surrounding nudity.
Source: Toplessness and public nudity in Canada — is it legal?
THE BOYLE CASE – Why is it important? It’s complicated but essentially recent changes to the rape shield law may result in a witness becoming a 3rd party participant in a criminal trial which has always been a 2 party (the state against the accused) process. Blatchford explains it very well.
An unusual and controversial application is to be heard in Ontario Superior Court in Ottawa on Wednesday, regarding Joshua Boyle’s sexual assault trial
Source: Christie Blatchford: Being questioned on your sexual history is the cost of justice, lawyers say
Your success as a lawyer is inversely proportional to your mental health, in particular, substance abuse, depression and anxiety. This profession has a personal cost. Law students need to be aware of this.
Recently, the Honourable Justice Clement Gascon of the Supreme Court of Canada addressed his momentary absence from work on May 8th, 2019. For over twenty years, I have been dealing with a sometimes insidious illness: depression and anxiety disorders
Source: In Praise of The Honourable Justice Clement Gascon – Slaw
We are seeing a wave that is about to crest. A war on drugs didn’t work. We need to take a new look at the prevalence of drugs (prescription or otherwise) in our 21st century culture and come to some consensus of a better way to accept it and deal with it. What we’re doing isn’t working.
Voters narrowly made Denver the first U.S. city to decriminalize psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in “magic mushrooms.”
Source: Denver is 1st US city to decriminalize ‘magic mushrooms’
