Reading Time: 3 minutes Use of force outside the law, even in defence of constitutionally guaranteed rights and freedom, carries with it the risk of destabilizing society
Tag: Law
What happens when capitalism lacks a soul?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Corporations have created a structure that’s unsustainable on political, economic, environmental and even spiritual levels
Google’s leverage raises serious antitrust allegations
Reading Time: 4 minutes As the world’s favoured search engine, dominant email service and most popular video provider, Google has immense power over public opinion
“Medical assistance in dying” worries many Canadians
Reading Time: 4 minutes A UN report is critical of Canada’s poor MAID safeguards for people with disabilities and their lack of access to viable MAID alternatives
COVID-19 vaccine opponents will be heard
Reading Time: 4 minutes Politicians are avoiding talking about what to do if some people turn a thumbs down to being forced to vaccinate
Who’s responsible when a driverless car has an accident?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Questions like who’s responsible when an automated system has an accident should be considered now rather than when we’re scrambling to implement laws for existing technology
Defunding police requires understanding the role of policing
Reading Time: 5 minutes Demystifying police work is needed to increase public support for major reforms, argues U of A sociologist
Filmmaker chronicles Boushie family quest for legal reform
Reading Time: 4 minutes Award-winning documentary follows family’s tireless efforts to turn grief into advocacy for change
COVID-19 lessons can improve health, legal systems
Reading Time: 3 minutes Client interfaces in law and medicine are as moribund as they were a century ago. It’s time to use technology to better advantage
France teaches Alphabet the ABCs of competition fairness
Reading Time: 4 minutes Digital technology has allowed news aggregators like Google to steal from media outlets for too long