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Technology has allowed work to bleed into all aspects of our lives — should we have the right to disconnect?
Do we dare to feel a sliver of optimism? After watching the pandemic unfold like a slow-motion car crash from behind masks and screens, COVID-19 case numbers in Ontario and most of the country are finally starting to fall. Chalk it up to a ramped-up vaccine rollout that, at long last, is making its effects …
Breaking COVID-19 rules should come with harsh consequences
When a driver runs a stop sign and a person dies as a result, the driver can be convicted of dangerous driving causing death and serve significant jail time. Why doesn’t killing somebody by breaking COVID-19 rules result in similar punishment? The fines for breaking COVID-19 rules are generally higher than for running a stop …
Settler governments are breaking international law, not Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs, say 200 lawyers, legal scholars
As lawyers and legal academics living and working on this part of Turtle Island now called Canada, we write to demand an end to the ongoing violations of Indigenous nations’ internationally recognized right to free, prior, and informed consent — for example, with the Trans Mountain and Coastal GasLink pipelines routed through unceded Indigenous lands, …
