Category Archives: Law/Legal Issues

Death by Torts (class)

I am drowning in torts reading – well in reading in general. The first couple weeks of law school have been intense, but not in the expected ways. The law, simply put, is much less pragmatic than I had anticipated – or to be more specific, its study is not. What I’m enjoying significantly more [...]

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Too many laws…

Harper’s Conservative Party, in line with his conservative ideology according to media outlets like the Globe and Mail, wants to curb the Supreme Court’s ability to significantly alter or amend legislation through interpretive rulings. See today’s Globe article on the status of Supreme Court interpretation. How would Harper significantly change the powers of the highest [...]

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A disaster looms on the internet horizon…

Google just pulled the Grooveshark app from the Android marketplace due to intense copyright scrutiny. Grooveshark, as I’ve written about before is a phenomenal cloud-based music-sharing application. According to Ars Technica and other news sources, Google has officially removed Grooveshark from their mobile Android application market. This is suspected to be caused in part by [...]

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