Articles tagged with: Federal Court
By Paul Koring
A constitutional challenge contends the Canadian government can’t strip a citizen of his rights, seize his assets and make it a crime to employ him just because the UN Security …
By Gerald Caplan
For Montrealer Abousfian Abdelrazik, the nightmare continues. Maybe readers will have forgotten his name already. I’ve written about his ordeal several times and a small dedicated group of his fellow …
By Glen McGregor
An Arab research organization is taking the Harper government to court after funding for social research projects on the life of Palestinians in Israel was abruptly terminated.
The Mada Al-Carmel Arab Center for Applied …
By Andrew Duffy
OTTAWA — A U.S. historian who specializes in the war on terror has urged the judge in the Mohamed Harkat case to carefully distinguish between jihadists and terrorists.
Professor Brian Williams, associate Professor of …
By Gar Pardy
The Supreme Court has spoken its last words on Omar Khadr. Regrettably it is a political decision and one that has little to do with justice, fundamental or temporal. Surprisingly all nine justices …
From The Canadian Press
Transport Canada should carry out a sweeping review of its no-fly list, say independent consultants hired by the department who found a Montreal-area student should never have been barred from an Air …
By Thomas Walkom
Another of Ottawa’s national security claims has proved bogus. For more than seven years, the federal government and its security bureaucrats insisted that alleged terrorist Hassan Almrei so threatened Canada that he had …
If you don’t have the opportunity to read the Federal Court ruling (which is really worth reading), you might be interested by this summary analysis prepared by Matthew Behrens.
The link to the actual …
A decision was issued this morning by the Honourable Richard Mosley of the Federal Court in file DES-3-08:
IN THE MATTER OF Hassan Almrei
Summary: On February 22, 2008, the Minister of Public Safety and …
From The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — A hunger-striker accused of terrorist links has once again been ordered freed from prison under strict conditions.
In a decision released Monday, Federal Court Justice Edmond Blanchard said Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub …
By Tim Naumetz
OTTAWA – A Federal Court judge will soon be tasked with answering a question that most likely hasn’t come up in a Canadian courtroom before: what is a spy?
The question is key …
From Toronto Coalition to Stop The War
November 2, 2009 (Toronto) – British MP George Galloway scored an important legal victory on October 30 when the Federal Court of Canada agreed to hear a judicial …
By Jim Bronskill
OTTAWA — A dispute rages over secret portions of an inquiry report on the overseas torture of three Canadians one year after release of the document, which criticizes the actions of security …
By Bill Curry
Ottawa — The Federal Court is ordering Canada’s spy agency to disclose a second human source in the Mohamed Harket case, an exceptional decision taken after finding the Canadian Security Intelligence Service “filtered” …
