Category Archives: Law

Racism against a Supreme Court Justice

Posted on 2024-07-05 by CKirkby

Diversity of experience on the Court can only be a threat to our system of government if the actual goal of government is to exclude people. Continue reading →

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Me and the Supreme Court

Posted on 2024-06-01 by CKirkby

I’ve been thinking about the Supreme Court a lot lately. Well, and also since I was a kid. Continue reading →

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Punishing individuals for societal failures

Posted on 2024-04-18 by CKirkby

We do, as a society, love to punish people for things that are beyond their control. Continue reading →

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“Woman” v. “Person with a vagina”

Posted on 2024-03-17 by CKirkby

There is a bizarre scandal out of the Supreme Court of Canada, related to the language used in the sexual assault case R. v. Kruk, 2024 SCC 7. Like, condemned by l’Assemblée nationale and various (male) commentators for contributing to the invisibilization of women levels of bizarre. Continue reading →

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Chatbot as agent

Posted on 2024-02-17 by CKirkby

A sensible decision from the Civil Resolution Tribunal in British Columbia, holding Air Canada responsible for the “misleading words” of its “customer service” chatbot. Continue reading →

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