JD students Lauren Lackie and Stephanie Chipeur, along with constitutional lawyer Gerald Chipeur, have written a commentary in the National Post discussing the recent case in Alberta regarding the attempt by a single mother and her live-in male partner to avoid having him legally designated as the child's father ("Single moms don't always need our pity," May 31, 2007).

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Prof. Emeritus Jacob Ziegel takes the Supreme Court to task for their recent judgements regarding class-action suits ("Supreme sellout: Canada's Top Court Has Sold Out Consumers By Handing Businesses An Easy Way To Avoid Class Action Suits," August 9, 2007).

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Where there's smoke, there's strife

Constitutional row brewing over emission rules

by Andrew Green

This commentary was first published in the Financial Post on October 10, 2007.

Climate change is all over the news these days. It is blamed for ice disappearing up north, pine beetles attacking large tracts of Canada's forest and droughts and floods around the world. Various governments in Canada are trying to decide how they will respond to public concern over the issue.

Prof. Ernest Weinrib has published a commentary in the National Post condemning the proposal by British university teachers to boycott Israeli academic institutions ("'A betrayal of the teaching profession'," June 8, 2007).

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