“Ultimately, courts depend on both the executive and the citizenry to recognize and abide by their judgments” ~ Supreme Court Justices Iacobucci and Arbour for the majority in Doucet-Boudreau v Nova Scotia (Minister of Education) [2003] 3 SCR 3 (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘Occupy movement’
Law School Quote of the Day – Lucky #13
Posted in Class politics, Conflict & Dialectics, Quote of the Day, tagged Canadian democracy, justiciability, law enforcement, Miriam Martin, occupy Edmonton, Occupy movement, police, Supreme Court of Canada on November 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Manically making connections: My boys Tom Morello, Marx, John and Farshad
Posted in Class politics, Conflict & Dialectics, Going to law school, Rants, tagged capitalism, CBC, chief advisor, Communist Manifesto, decay of capitalism, historical materialism, Occupy movement, Occupy Vancouver, The Nightwatchman, Tom Morello on October 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A couple quick points that are somewhat connected. Obviously I am following the Occupy movement with great interest and anticipation. The flip-side of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is that “if it is broke, try your damnedest to fix it”. The world economic system is currently broken. Don’t panic, it happens every few centuries and we either have to revamp or suffer longer than necessary. Okay, Marx and Engels put that more eloquently: (more…)
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