Speakers included:

• Honorable Daniel Dortèlus, Judge to the Court of Quebec
• Flora Terah, Kenyan Community Advocate, Kenyan Parliamentary Candidate – 2007 and Founder of “Terah Against Terror”
• Phil Carpenter, Photojournalist, Montreal Gazette, Reports on Haiti and Rwanda
• Honourable Dr. Pemba Braveboy, Senator of Grenada
• Professor Emeritus Peter W. Hogg, Scholar in Residence, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
• Honourable Juanita Westmoreland-Traoré, First Appointed Black Judge, Court of Quebec, District of Montreal
• Honourable Mr. Justice Adrian Dudley Saunders, Caribbean Court of Justice
• Honourable Guylène Beaugé, Judge of the Superior Court, Province of Quebec, District of Montreal.
• Sean Robichaud, Toronto Criminal Defence Lawyer
• Frank Walwyn, Partner, WeirFoulds L.L.P
• Mr Will Prosper, Activist, Montreal-Nord Republik,
• Daniel Albahary, Producer, Why Copyright? Canadian Voices on Copyright Law
• Éloge Butera, Quebec Government “young volunteer of the year” and Claude-Masson Award Recipient
• Kent D. Lollis, Executive Director for Diversity Initiatives, Law School Admission Council
• Dr. Dorothy Williams, Historian & Author
• And much more!

The paper, A Trial to End All Terrorism: How the United States Could Have Won the War on Terrorism Before it Even Began, with the Trial of Only One Man, has been accepted for the 3rd Annual Canadian Law Student Conference in Windsor, Ontario on March 18-19.

The conference is hosted by the University of Windsor Faculty of Law, Law Foundation of Ontario, and the Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues (WRLSI).

University of Toronto Faculty of Law and the Law Foundation of Ontario presented the third biennial symposium – Combating Hatred in the Twenty-first Century: Legal Remedies.
The Use of the Criminal Code to Combat Hate
Introductions & Overview
• Mark Sandler, Lawyer – Cooper & Sandler LLP, Barristers and Solicitors
Panel Discussion
• Acting Inspector Steve Irwin, Toronto Police Service
• Deputy Director Howard Leibovich, Crown Law Office – Criminal
Use of Civil Remedies to Combat Hate
Introductions & Overview
• Marvin Kurz, Lawyer – Dale Streiman & Kurz LLP
Debate: Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act
• Professor Richard Moon, Faculty of Law – University of Windsor
• Mark Freiman, Lawyer – Lerners LLP
A Menu of Innovative Remedies
• David Matas, Lawyer
• Professor Patrick Monahan, Vice President Academic & Provost –
York University
• Douglas Elliott, Lawyer – Roy Elliott O’Connor LLP

1:30 pm Fighting Hatred in Europe: A View from the Front Lines
(Colony Ballroom)
• Right Honourable Denis MacShane, MP – British Parliament
Concurrent Workshops
1. Hate on the Internet (Terrace Suite)
• Saleha Khan, Instructor – Ontario Police College
• Marvin Kurz, Lawyer – Dale Streiman & Kurz LLP
• Dr. Abbee Corb, Open Source Intelligence Specialist – Hate Crime Extremism Investigative Team

Campus Issues
• Professor Lorne Sossin, Faculty of Law – University of Toronto
• Julia Hanigsberg, General Counsel – Ryerson University
• Nouman Ashraf, Former Director of the University of Toronto’s
Anti-Racism and Cultural Diversity Office
• Bram Freedman, Vice President, External Relations and
Secretary General – Concordia University
3. What do Human Rights Laws have to do with Hate?
• Raja Khouri, Commissioner – Ontario Human Rights Commission
• Raj Anand, Lawyer – WeirFoulds and Chair, Ontario Human Rights
Legal Support Centre
• Nathalie Des Rosiers, General Counsel – Canadian Civil Liberties
Association
4. Sentencing for Hate Motivated Crime
• Mark Sandler, Lawyer – Cooper & Sandler LLP, Barristers and Solicitors
• Sandra Bacchus, Deputy Crown Attorney – Attorney General
• Julia Sandler, Assistant Crown Attorney – Attorney General

4:00 pm Voices of Experience
Moderator
• Justice Harry LaForme, Ontario Court of Appeal
Panelists
• The Honourable Irwin Cotler, M.P. for Mount Royal, Québec
• Zubeda Vahed, Senior Policy Advisor – Ministry of Education
• Reverend Dr. Brent Hawkes, Senior Pastor – Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto
• The Honourable Zanana Akande, M.Ed., B.A

The event was hosted by the York Federation of Students and Xpressions Against Oppression

Alex Smith of The Radio Ecoshock Show interviews Dr. Jonathan Patz on climate change.  He mentions a presentation that Omar Ha-Redeye attended in 2009 where Dr. Patz spoke.

NASA just declared 2009 the second hottest year since modern measurements began in 1880. The warmest year was 2005. And the past decade was the warmest on record. Global climate change is upon us.

In this program, you’ll hear two of the world’s top authorities explain how this will impact our health, and the survival of the species.

I interview Dr. Jonathan Patz, a physician and lead author for the IPCC, on health and climate change. He is now advising emergency doctors and disaster agencies on what to expect as climate disruption proceeds…

Then, we’ll go straight to Paris, for a speech by Thomas Lovejoy, the inventor of the term “biological diversity.” His speech, recorded January 25th, 2010 opened a United Nations conference to celebrate this year of biodiversity. But Lovejoy warns we are entering the sixth great extinction. Don’t miss this powerful overview on climate change and the species, in our second half hour.

Climate change is an important issue, and one that all citizens of the planet must work together to raise awareness of.

Kathleen A. Bergin of the South Texas College of Law and Josie F. Brown of the University of South Carolina School of Law mentioned on the First Amendment Law Prof Blog a paper by Omar Ha-Redeye and Daniel Simard on SSRN, War-Time Propaganda: From Nazi Germany to Minorities in Canada Post 9/11.

An earlier version of the paper was originally presented by Omar Ha-Redeye on May 11, 2008 at conference at Huron College.

Does this look like a plan?

For a better solution, see a post on Slaw, and the companion paper on SSRN, A Trial to End All Terrorism: How the United States Could have Won the War on Terrorism Before it Even Began With the Trial of Only One Man.

Even Santa thinks we’ve been bad:

What does the Swiss minaret ban and the French burqa ban have in common?

Why the European judicial systems are ill-prepared to deal with these issues within a human rights and conflict of laws framework?

See the post on Slaw and the companion paper on SSRN, The Role of Islamic Shari’ah in Protecting Women’s Rights.

Omar Ha-Redeye completed a training session at the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) on the Essentials of Governance for Public Sector Boards.

The session was conducted by Jim Mackay of the Berkley Consulting Group and Anne Corbett of Borden, Ladner, Gervais LLP.

An overview of the public sector landscape was provided, as well as the role that a board plays in an organization.  The legal obligations and duties of directors were covered, as well as how to effectively conduct board meetings and play a director role.

The training also included several role-playing scenarios, and an expert panel featuring: Linda Lamereux, a lawyer sitting on the Health Services and Appeal Review Board and the Health Professions Appeal & Review Board; John Bell, a partner at Shibley Righton LLP with considerable board experience in the public sector; and Helen Hayward, who currently sits on the Board of Governors for Seneca College.