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In a guest commentary on the JURIST website, Prof. Kent Roach says that Canada's parliament needs to slow down and conduct an intelligent debate on the merits of two new anti-terrorism bills introduced in quick succession last week by the minority Conservative government ("Canada's New Terrorism Bills: Slow Down and Debate," October 29, 2007).

Read the full commentary on the JURIST website.

On September 10, 2007, the Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) released a study by Prof. Kent Roach on the parliamentary review of the Canadian government's Anti-Terrorism Act, entitled "Better Late Than Never? The Canadian Parliamentary Review of the Anti-terrorism Act."

Acting Director of the International Human Rights Clinic and adjunct professor Darryl Robinson was interviewed on City TV News International about celebrity activism.  The interview concerned a YouTube video by Jim Carrey drawing attention to the plight of Nobel prize winner Aung Sun Suu Kyi of Burma.

Watch the interview on City TV's website.

Prof. Colleen Flood, scientific director of the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (IHSPR), has written a commentary in the Toronto Star with Meghan McMahon, senior projects officer at the IHSPR, in response to a constitutional challenge to Ontario legislation that prohibits the purchase of private health insurance for medically necessary health-care services ("Privatized medical care no cure for waiting lists," September 18, 2007).