People who know me know that I continue to be concerned that the transition to streaming services is actually providing less choice to film viewers rather than more. This is not a new hobby horse...
(NOTE: This post was originally a lengthy philosophical consideration commemorating my fortieth birthday (which was on Tuesday). However, I deleted that post yesterday because really, who needs a...
So Amazon has announce Kindle Worlds, which is kind of sickly brilliant: it’s basically an online publishing house for fan-fiction, wherein royalties are paid to the owners of the IP and to the...
Torontoist asked me to discuss how Canadian libel law would work if Rob Ford wanted to sue the press over the “crack-smoking story” so that is what I did there. Now here is that GIF of Ford t...
A frequent request when I do my mock-AMA posts is “why I should write She-Hulk, superhero lawyer” or commentary on legal issues in superhero comics. I will admit I am not terribly interested ...
People were asking for my opinion on the Rob Ford appeal decision and well, there it is for you.
My weekly TV review is up at Torontoist. Also, Torontoist asked me to do a legal review of the decision which got Rob Ford kicked out of office, so you can read that too.
The Law Society of Upper Canada is currently considering whether to revise/revamp the articling system or abolish it entirely, and more or less the entire legal profession in Ontario – and by e...
Torontoist asked me to review the OIRPD’s report on police overreaction during the G20 summit here in Toronto, so I did.
Zach Butler, a while back, asked: So how’s being a lawyer going? Well. I work here. The thing about family law that the casual reader may not understand is that in law school, I’m pretty sure...
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Black Mage: Does Thomas Mulcair have a good shot of winning the next Canadian election? Is it a better/worse shot than any of the other NDP contenders? I would say yes and I don’t know, respect...
So the L.A. City Council voting to require male pornographic actors to use condoms has been getting play from around the internet, including the nigh-mandatory Reason article that thinks it is mu...
Lately, we’ve been hearing a lot about how important it is to keep taxes low on the rich. Not, as we all might suspect, because all the Congressmen saying it have taken somewhere in the neighbo...
On Twitter, @magiclovehose asks: Something for the “give me something to write about” list: the legal ramifications of copyright and 3D printers? The thing about 3D printers is that they dire...
I don’t typically mention the legal blog stuff I do here, but I think my discussion of the Supreme Court of Canada’s recent decision in R. v. J.A. – the “you can’t consent in advance to...