1. A jury of whose peers? Discussing the case of Gerald Stanley, charged and then found not guilty of the murder of Colten Boushie, Stephen Kimber writes: In his instructions to the jury, Chief Justice Martel Popescul said jurors had three choices: agree with the Crown and convict Stanley of second-degree murder; conclude that Stanley should have known […]
All the woes of the world: Morning File, Wednesday, January 24, 2018
News 1. Mainstreets Plan “Sometime in the 70s we should have hit peak ‘designing for the car’ days, because it was around then that people started to realize the pickle we were getting ourselves into by doing strictly that,” writes Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler: But the reality is we just kept designing that way for […]