From Dakshana Bascaramurty at The Globe:
But keep in mind:
92.2% said an online campaign has never changed their mind on an issue
55.4% said their written communication is mostly handled by administrative staff
94.3% said they save contact information and communications they receive from people
54.5% said they have profiles on MySpace and/or Facebook
Cameron MacLean and Chanakya Sethi of The Court picked up on an amusing post about a reference to American Idol in the New Brunswick legislature,
Former AG Charges: “Pants on the Ground”
T.J. Burke, New Brunswick MLA and the province’s former attorney general, recently accused Conservative opposition leader David Alward of being caught with his “pants on the ground/pants on the ground/looking like a fool with his pants on the ground.” The result? ”[M]any requests from television and radio stations in Canada and the United States to repeat his performance, but [Burke] has no plans to do so or to seek a career in singing or dancing,” reports the CBC. Confused readers should watch a video of the speech given in the legislative assembly (HT: LawIsCool) and check-out this episode of American Idol.
Michael Ignatieff spoke to students at the University of Toronto – Mississauga today on a number of issues, including racial profiling and discrimination, and the use of social media in politics.
Cameron MacLean and Chanakya Sethi of The Court pick up on a post on Law is Cool about mixed messages from Ministers on body scanners at airports.
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.
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