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The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 210: Meredith Lilly on the Trade Risks Behind Canada’s Digital Services Tax and Mandated Streaming Payments
The battle over a digital services tax has been the subject of Law Bytes podcast episodes for several years as the Canadian government signalled its…
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Abandoning Institutional Neutrality: Why the University of Windsor Encampment Agreements Constrain Academic Freedom and Freedom of…
By committing to engage in political advocacy, Windsor has abandoned the widely accepted principle of institutional neutrality, thereby constraining…
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The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 209: Peter Menzies on Why the Canadian News Sector is Broken and How to Fix It
It isn’t news that the Canadian news sector is broken: the Online News Act has caused more harm the good, the dependence on government funding and…
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Why the University of Windsor Encampment Agreement Violates Antisemitism and Academic Freedom Standards
There is much to criticize in the agreement, but it is the creation of unique double standards for Israeli institutional agreements that constitutes…
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Know When to Fold Em: The Big Risk Behind Canada’s Digital Services Tax Bet
The Canadian government’s efforts to regulate big tech sometimes feels like a series of high-stakes poker matches in which the government foolishly bets…
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States of Disbelief: Too Many Don’t Believe Rise of Antisemitism as the Jewish Community Can’t Believe What It is Seeing
The Jewish community has for months called on our leaders to take a stand against antisemitism. It is now apparent these actions alone are not enough…
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The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 208: Will Page on Why the CRTC’s Bill C-11 Ruling is Discriminatory and May Ultimately Hurt the Canadian…
The recent CRTC Bill C-11 decision mandating that streaming services pay 5 percent of their revenues has left seemingly everyone unhappy and has sparked…
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Court Issues Injunction Against University of Toronto Encampment on Trespass Grounds, Finds “No Doubt That Some of the Speech on the…
With the court finding abhorrent hate speech on the exterior of the encampment including calls for death to Jews, this is hardly the exoneration some…
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When Antisemitism Strikes Close to Home
I don’t know when police at synagogues or extensive security at Jewish schools and community centres became normalized in Canada, but I cannot remember…
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June 2024

Government’s Choice for Chief of Human Rights Commission Cited Terrorism as a Rational Strategy With High Rates of Success
The effectiveness of terrorism is certainly within the scope of academic study. But citing terrorism as a rational, successful strategy surely raises…
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Virani’s Failed Human Rights Commission Choice: Why the Dattani Appointment Irreparably Harms both the Commission and Bill C-63
If the Online Harms Act is linked to an untrustworthy enforcement system with leadership that raises fairness concerns, it has little hope of garnering…
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Government Appoints New Chief of Canadian Human Rights Commission Who Linked To Articles Comparing Israelis to Nazis, Called for Israel…
A deeply troubling record of posts and appearances call into question the ability for Jewish or Zionist Canadians to get a fair, impartial hearing at…
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