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Illegal in warfare, tear gas is widely used by law enforcement authorities against civilians

Published by CBC opinion on Sept.

"Very soon Trump’s new pick for the US Supreme Court will be grilled by Democratic senators about her conservative views on abortion and the Affordable Care Act. They are rightly worried that her appointment will put in place a 6-3 majority of rightwing judges on the Court, especially in the wake of Trump’s explicit disappointment at the fact that even his picks have on a couple of occasions voted against positions he favoured. What assurance does he think he has that this pick will be more compliant, a ‘loyal’ ‘Trump judge’? 

In an op-ed published in the Globe and Mail, Supreme Court of Canada Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella (LLB 1970) pays tribute to her friend, "the incandescent Ruth Bader Ginsburg".

On the day of Ms. Ginsburg's death, Sept. 18, The Hon. Silberman Abella told the Globe and Mail, "She was a courageous jurist who left an indelible, progressive mark on American jurisprudence and an inspiring one for judges everywhere. The fight for global justice just got harder."

In an op-ed published in the Toronto Star, September 15, David Onley, former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, former Faculty of Law Dean Mayo Moran, currently provost and vice chancellor of Trinity College and a law professor at U of T, and Charles Beer, former Minister of Community and Social Services, address the need to strengthen Canada's support for the disability community in a post-pandemic world.

As the authors of three successive government-appointed independent reviews, they write: