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Visiting Fellow Tony Keller: visit your money in Newfoundland

Thursday, April 21, 2005

Journalist Tony Keller, who is a Visiting Fellow this year at the Faculty of Law, wrote an opinion piece in the Toronto Star on February 27, 2005, "Go to Newfoundland, and visit your money."

Keller wonders when Ontario voters will finally get angry at the $23 billion more the Federal Government took from Ontario taxpayers than it returned in transfers, services and benefits last year. Newfoundland, in contrast, benefited from net federal inflows of $2.6 billion, Nova Scotia was ahead by $4.4 billion and Quebec was up $3 billion, Keller points out.

Health care series guest speaker, the Hon. Roy Romanow, packs lecture hall

Thursday, April 14, 2005

The Hon. Roy Romanow told a standing-room only audience on September 30, 2004 that Canada's first ministers were wrong to focus on wait list times for only a few specific medical services. He said the emphasis should be on all medical services, not just cardiac, cancer, joint replacement and cataract and diagnostics.

Family Law Professor says same-sex couples need exit option

Thursday, April 14, 2005

Family Law Professor Brenda Cossman says same-sex couples need to have equal access to the divorce option ("Getting Unmarried", The Globe and Mail, September 16). She says adultery is just one of the antiquated heterosexual grounds for divorce that no longer makes sense in light of same-sex marriage.

Read the full commentary.

IHRP Director says Canada should strike down law shielding foreign torturers

Thursday, April 14, 2005

Noah Novogrodsky, director of the U of T law school's International Human Rights Program (IHRP), says the Canadian federal government should strike down the State Immunity Act that shields foreign governments from being sued by Canadian torture victims or their families in a commentary in the National Post (October 13, 004).

Head of Career Services pens article on age discrimination

Thursday, April 14, 2005

Bonnie Goldberg, Assistant Dean, Career Services, comments on mandatory retirement and an aging population in "Legal remedies for age discrimination", Toronto Star, on June 5.

Read the full article.

Prof. Brenda Cossman comments on same-sex marriage

Thursday, April 14, 2005

On December 14, Professor Brenda Cossman told CTV.ca that the traditional definition of same-sex marriage has been found to be unconstitutional in Canada. In the article, Prof. Cossman says the Constitution's "notwithstanding" clause may be the tool of last resort for those opposed to same-sex marriage.

To read the full article, please visit ctv.ca.

Prof. Kent Roach says Canada should learn from British on how to treat suspects

Thursday, April 14, 2005

Professor Kent Roach says Canada and Britain have vastly different methods when it comes to detaining terrorist suspects, and we should move closer to the British model. Prof. Roach says in a Toronto Star editorial on December 19, 2004, that the British are much more sensitive to the rights of non-citizens.

Read the full story on this site.

Read recent faculty commentaries

Wednesday, February 2, 2005

The law school's faculty have continued to publish commentaries in the national media during the fall term, on a wide range of current issues. Visit the Faculty in the News page to read the full text of recent faculty commentaries.

Prof. Colleen Flood says two-tier health no answer

Friday, January 14, 2005

Professor Colleen Flood followed up her National Post editorial in early June with another essay on health care system delivery. In the letter to the editor section on August 3, "Two-tier care is not the answer," Prof. Flood says we aleady have physicians and nurses working at full capacity, and the sickest and poorest people would be left in the public sector. Professor Margaret Somerville provided an opposing view.

Prof. Lorne Sossin says court ruling puts regulatory agencies on notice

Friday, January 14, 2005

Professor Lorne Sossin was cited in a Globe and Mail article on August 16, "Supreme Court decision puts watchdogs on high alert". In the article, Prof. Sossin says agencies responsible for maintaining discipline in self-regulating professions, such as bar associations, must investigate complaints quickly.

To read the full article, please see the Globe and Mail. 

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