Wednesday October 29, 2014 – 11am
Posted Oct 29, 2014 02:32:26 PM.
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11:00 – Canada’s new anti-terrorism legislation
Cormac MacSweeney, 570 News Parliament Hill reporter
After last week’s terror attack in Ottawa, the Government has introduced new legislation (Monday) that would give Canada’s spy agency expanded power. The Protection of Canada from Terrorists Act also gives legal protection to sources who give or want to give evidence to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney said his bill also gives the government the right to “seek earlier implementation of the citizenship revocation provisions” of the immigration law that was passed in June.
11:30 – BDSM Consent law
Brenda Cossman, Professor of Law, University of Toronto
Jian Ghomeshi scandal: Fired on Sunday by the CBC – he filed a 55 million dollar lawsuit on Monday claiming defamation and breach of confidence. On his Facebook, he said it was ‘because of the risk of my private sex life being made public’ and has been faced with accusations of choking and hitting his partners during sex. University of Toronto Professor, Brenda Cossman says the law in Canada hasn’t clearly dealt with BDSM practices and that it’s a ‘murky’ area. In 1995, the Ontario Court of Appeal applied the Supreme Court of Canada decision to a case of sexual assault causing bodily harm and upheld a conviction, despite consent, which Cossman says could apply in a BDSM case.
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