News

In a commentary in the Globe and Mail, Prof. Brenda Cossman reviews the effectiveness of Canada's sexual assault laws, and argues that "Seriously transforming the way in which criminal law deals with sexual assault requires a fundamental transformation of our underlying sexual culture" ("The law alone can’t change rape culture," October 8, 2013).

Read the commentary on the Globe and Mail website, or below.

SJD student and Trudeau Scholar Kyle Kirkup has written a commentary in the Globe and Mail analyzing a recent case in which an HIV-positive woman was sent to prison for having unprotected sex ("When should unprotected sex trigger the heavy hand of criminal law?", October 3, 2013).

Read the full commentary on the Globe and Mail website.

Prof. Colleen Flood was interviewed on several CBC radio stations across Canada about the issue of assisted suicide on Sept. 25, 2013.

Listen to the interview on the CBC Radio Vancouver show On the Coast (Sept. 25, at around the 1:01:45 mark to 1:08:00 mark).

In a commentary in the Toronto Star, Prof. Denise Réaume argues that, in the name of secularism and rejection of Quebec's religiously claustrophobic past, the Parti Québécois' Charer of Values in fact re-enacts that history of insularity ("‘Dead hand of the Church’ evident in Quebec’s debate on values," September 19, 2013).