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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

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Paul Alexander @paulalexanderlaw.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Heather Mallick does a disservice to the women of the criminal defence bar by implying that their male clients hire them for the optics. I'm proud to have learned from many of the brilliant women who are leading our profession. Their clients hire them because they are excellent lawyers.

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Paul Alexander @paulalexanderlaw.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

A hearty congratulations to my friend and former colleague Emily Beaton, who was appointed to the Ontario Court of Justice this week. We cut our teeth together as junior defence counsel at the same firm many years ago. She will be an outstanding jurist. news.ontario.ca/en/bulletin/...

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Paul Alexander @paulalexanderlaw.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Birds singing in the trees; streetcars rumbling by; sun dappling the corners of Osgoode Hall. It's a beautiful morning at the Court of Appeal. Let's go.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 07/04/2025

If the Supreme Court decides that the government can "erroneously" disappear you off the street to a foreign torture prison, and that federal courts have no power to do anything about it, that is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

Respondents emphasize that Abrego Garcia was improperly removed to El Sal-
vador because, although he could be removed anywhere else in the world under a
2019 order of removal, that order granted statutory withholding of removal to El Sal-
vador alone. But, while the United States concedes that removal to El Salvador was
an administrative error, see App., infra, 60a, that does not license district courts to
seize control over foreign relations, treat the Executive Branch as a subordinate dip-
lomat, and demand that the United States let a member of a foreign terrorist organ-
ization into America tonight. For starters, because MS-13 members such as Abrego
Garcia have since been designated members of a foreign terrorist organization, they
are no longer eligible for withholding of removal under 8 U.S.C. 1231(b)(3)(B). Fur-
ther, the United States has ensured that aliens removed to CECOT in El Salvador
will not be tortured, and it would not have removed any alien to El Salvador for such
detention if doing so would violate its obligations under the Convention Against Tor-
ture. Moreover, respondents treat the relief here as “routine,” Resp. C.A. Stay
Opp. 1, but that relief goes far beyond merely facilitating an alien’s return, which is
what courts have ordered in other cases. This order—and its demand to accomplish
sensitive foreign negotiations post-haste, and effectuate Abrego Garcia’s return to-
night—is unprecedented and indefensible.

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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 24/03/2025

#StarInvestigation: Ontario’s jails are deadlier than ever — and this one is ‘the worst in every respect’ Forty-six inmates died in provincial jails last year. More than a quarter of them were at Maplehurst Correctional Complex.

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Ontario’s jails are deadlier than ever — and this one is ‘the worst in every respect’

Forty-six inmates died in Ontario provincial jails last year. More than a quarter of them were at Maplehurst Correctional Complex.

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Paul Alexander @paulalexanderlaw.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Also, "the offering of one set of earlier trial dates essentially at the last minute does not require that defence counsel be available or risk having any consequent delay characterized as defence delay."

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 23/03/2025

Disgusting Trump-style rhetoric from Poilievre. He should be condemned.

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Paul Alexander @paulalexanderlaw.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Victory is mine! Bring me the finest muffins and bagels in all the land. (Victory is *ours,* really. It was a delight to work with @chrisrudnicki.bsky.social on this appeal. Nothing like starting the weekend with a win.)

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