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August 8, 2014: Section 24 - Attempting the Impossible: Episode 29 of the Ideablawg Podcast on the Criminal Code of Canada
July 31, 2014: Lessons from the Hart Case - A long Way From Wray?
July 30, 2014: Section 23.1 - The Limitless Criminal Law: Episode 28 of the Ideabalwg Podcasts on the Criminal Code of Canada
July 17, 2014: Section 23 - Accessory As A Mode of Participation: Episode 27 of the Ideablawg Podcasts on the Criminal Code of Canada
June 20, 2014: Sections 22.1 and 22.2 - When Corporations Are Crimnal: Episode 26 of the Ideablawg Podcasts on the Criminal Code
June 6, 2014: When Counsellling is a Crime - Section 22: The ideablawg Podcasts on the Criminal Code of Canada
May 31: The Architetcure of Prisons: The Built Space of Confinement
May 27, 2014: Parties Part 2: Common Intention: The Ideablawg Podcasts on the Criminal Code of Canada
May 19, 2014: Episode 23 of the Ideablawg Podcasts on the Criminal Code of Canada - Section 21 - Parties and Modes of Participation
April 24, 2014; Section 20 - On Holiday: Episode 22 of the Ideablawg Podcasts on the Criminal Code of Canada
April 14, 2014: Section 19 and Ignorance and the Law: Episode 21 of the Ideablawg Podcasts on the Criminal Code of Canada
April 11, 2014: Let's Be Clear: The Supreme Court of Canada and the Enhanced Credit Cases
April 4, 2014: Section 18 – A Duress Addendum? Episode 20 of the Ideablawg Podcasts On The Criminal Code of Canada
March 22, 2014: Section 17 - The Statutory Defence of Duress
March 18, 2014: Making A Split Decision In the Supreme Court of Canada
March 16, 2014:Ideablawg's Weekly Connections: Inside The Courtroom
March 10, 2014: Episode 18 of the Ideablawg Podcasts - Section 16 of the Criminal Code - the Defence of Mental Disorder
March 8, 2014: Ideablawg Weekly Connections: International Women's Day
February 26, 2014: Episode 17 of the Ideablawg Podcasts - Section 15 of the Criminal Code: De Facto Laws, Criminal Responsibility and War Crimes
February 23, 2014: Ideablawg Weekly Connections: The Olympic Edition
February 22, 2014: When Dissent In The Supreme Court Matters
February 17, 2014: Ideablawg Weekly Connections: Peace and Violence
February 16, 2014: Section 14 of the Criminal Code - Consenting To Death
February 9, 2014: Ideablawg's Weekly Connections: From Pronouncing to Pronouncement
February 7, 2014: Section 13 - Age As A Defence: Episode 15 of the Ideablawg Podcast on the Criminal Code of Canada
February 2, 2014: Ideablawg's Weekly Connections: From Justitia to Tupac
January 31, 2014: Section 12 of the Criminal Code: Anyone Want To Play Jeopardy?
January 26, 2014: Ideablawg Weekly Connections: From Google Glass to Chaucer
January 22, 2014: Section 11 of the Criminal Code - The Parallel Universe of Criminal and Civil Law
January 19, 2014: A Week of Connections! From Fuentes to Chutzpah
January 12, 2014: The Ideablawg Connections Of The Week: From Walter Benjamin to John Rizzo
November 16: Episode Nine of the Ideablawg Podcast on The Criminal Code of Canada: Section 6 and the Golden Thread Metaphor
November 16: The Golden Thread Metaphor and Section 6 - The Other Presumption of Innocence
November 10: Episode 8 of the Ideablawg Podcasts on The Crimianl Code of Canada: Section 5 and Military Law
October 11: The Acquittal In the Audrey Tobias Case: Confusing Intent With Motive
October 8: Section 4 - Of Cabbages and Kings and Stamps!
September 30: Text and Podcast - Episode Three of the Ideablawg Podcast on the Canadian Criminal Code: Section 3 "For Your Convenience Only"
September 29: Reasonable Suspicion Part Two: Business As Usual At the Supreme Court of Canada
September 27: The Sniffer Dogs Cases Part One: Don't Throw The Principle Out With The Bath Water
September 23: Episode Two of the Ideablawg Podcast
Septmeber 23: Text of Episode Two Podcast on the Criminal Code: Definitions
September 20: Thoughts On The Intersection of Law and Art
September 16: The First Ideablawg Podcast! Episode One - Section One of the Criminal Code of Canada
September 14, 2013: The Ideablawg Criminal Law trend for 2013-2014: On Sentencing and On Podcasting
July 4, 2013: Calgary's Rough Ride Through Emergency Laws
June 17, 2013: The Goldring Case and The Mens rea of Drinking and Driving Offences
June 4, 2012: Subjective/Objective Mens Rea Debate Explained
May 6, 2013: What Is Life? The Unanswered Question In the SCC Levkovic Case
April 30, 2013: Terrorism and Exceptional Circumstances: is There A Public Interest In The Right To Counsel?
April 15, 2013: This Is Thought-Provoking: The Supreme Court of Canada To Hear Argument on the Provocation Defence
March 19, 2013: Canada's New Defence of the Person Section: Is It Too Reasonable?
March 12, 2013: The Magnotta Case and The Exclusion of the Public
March 7, 2013: The Philosophy Of Testimony And Belief And the Criminal Law
February 28, 2013: THE SCC’S WHATCOTT DECISION EXPLORES THE MEANING OF “HATRED’ WHILE CONTINUING THE SUBJECTIVE/OBJECTIVE DEBATE
February 23, 2013: The Fearon Case and the Police Common Law Power To Search Incident To Arrest
February 19, 2013: The Pistorius Case: What Is Murder In Canada May Not Be Murder In South Africa
February 7, 2013: Reasonable And Probable Grounds And the Theory of Knowledge
February 4, 2013: What's Up At The Supreme Court of Canada
January 31, 2013: Not To Make Excuses But - The Supreme Court of Canada's (Un)Responsiveness To Excuses
January 24, 2013: Through The Judicial Lens: the Supreme Court of Canada and Unreasonable Verdicts
January 16, 2013: The Pham Decision And The Human Face In Sentencing
January 15, 2013: Is Reasonable Suspicion Going To The Dogs?
January 10, 2013: Queen of The North Update
January 9, 2013: Is The Law Round?
January 8, 2013: Searches, Verdicts, and Sentences
January 4, 2013: The Power of Blogging!
January 3, 2013: Is The Supreme Court of Canada Kicking It Old School?
December 20, 2012: A Balancing Act: the Supreme Court of Canada and testifying Behind The Veil
December 19, 2012: Important Cases To Be Released By The Supreme Court of Canada
December 10, 2012: What Are Human Rights Anyway?
November 11, 2012: In Rememberance: The Legacy of Mr. Justice Henry Nolan
November 7, 2012: Criminal Law and the Science of Prediction
October 21: Touching On The Biographical Core of Personal Information: The Supreme Court of Canada’s Decision in Cole
October 11 - Is There Evidence In This Courtroom? Admissibility of Evidence At A Criminal Trial
September 20 - “Reid” This: Is It Time To Change Police Interrogation Techniques?
July 27 - Is This The End of Subjective Intent: The Supreme Court of Canada and the Walle Case
July 18 - The Canadian Spy, Bail Reviews, and Preliminary Inquiries
July 13 - Assisted Suicide Appeal
July 7 - Taxi! The New Alberta "Drink But Don't Drive" Reality
July 6 - Whose Life Is This Anyway? Sue Rodriguez and the Supreme Court of Canada
June 29 - Whose Life Is This Anyway? Part One of the Right To Die Debate in Canada
June 6 - Extraditing Magnotta
May 25 - In Defence of Civil Disobedience
May 22 - In Incivility of Civil Disobedience
May 9 - An University is Not A Charter-Free Zone: The Pridgen Case
May 3 - The Cabbie and The Glider: A Tale of Two Bail Hearings
April 25 - The Legal Politics of Suessville
April 21 - Property Rights and The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
April 15 - Are You Listening To This? The Constitutionality of the Interception of Private Communications
April 5 - Blog Update: the Spy and the Pamphleteer
March 28 - How The Court of Appeal for Ontarion Used Legal Precedent in the Bedford Case
March 26 - The Result in Attorney General (Canada) v. Bedford
March 22 - War Crimes
March 17 - Blogs as Graffiti
March 12- The Omnibus Crime Bill
March 10 - Jury Vetting and the International Perspective
March 7 - Jury Vetting and The Supreme Court of Canada
March 1 - How A Charge Is Laid Under The Canada Elections Act
February 25 - Safety First: Laboratory Safety and the Criminal Code
February 23 - The Trial Judge Deserves Deference!
February 20 - Crime And Punishment: “Changing Lives Through Literature”
February 16 Reading The Riot Act
February 12 The Criminal Code of Canada: Codification and Reform
February 8 Charles Dickens Is On The Side Of Justice
February 5 In The Name Of Her Majesty’s Criminal Law
February 2 Let’s Talk About: Diplomatic Immunity
January 31 Can Criminal Law Keep Up With The Digital World?
January 27 The Goudge Report And Expert Evidence
January 25 Whatcott In The Courts Again
January 24 Why Is This Still A Crime? Crime Comics and the Criminal Code
January 21 Spy Vs. Spy
January 19 The Internet Is Here Stay!
January 17 Required Reading For the Criminal Lawyer
January 16 Public Disasters and the Criminal Law
January 13 The Presumption of Innocence: The International Perspective
January 12 - Tracing the Presumption of Innocence Through A Survey of Supreme Court of Canada Cases
January 11 - The Presumption of Innocence: The Making of A Principle
January 9 - The Art of Taking (and Giving) Art
January 7 - The Infinite Lists of Law
January 5 - Freedom of Expression: Poems, Posters, and Billboards as a Form of Complaint
January 3 - Clash of the Writers: The Bad Book Review Lawsuit
January 1 - Innovate In 2012
December 31 - Shakespeare Courts and The Promise To Marry
December 30 - Bleak House and The Court of Chancery
December 27 - Ask "Why" when Discussing Criminal Law
December 26 - Legally Minded Books
December 24 - Longreads
December 23 - Connecting Havel, Hitchens, and Kim Jong-il
December 22 - What's A Reference Case?
December 21 - Legal Language Explorer
December 20 - Holiday Gifts For The Legally Minded
December 19 - Marking Papers!
December 18 - Famous (Legal) Battles Of Ideas
December 17 - Marking Papers!
December 16 - Were The Wright Brothers Right? A lesson In Patent Law
December 15 - Testifying Behind The Veil: The Human Factor
December 14 - Testifying Behind The Veil: The facts In The N. S. Case
December 13 - Testifying Behind The Veil: A Study In Conflicting Charter Rights
December 12 - Occupy Canada and Impaired Driving Alberta
December 11 - Human Rights, Science and Literature
December 10 - Connecting With International Human Rights Day
December 9 - Let's Talk About: the Criminal Justice System
December 8 - The Power Of Apologies
December 7 - Does the Occupy Movement Have Injunctionitis?
December 6 - Injunctions And The Charter: Part Two
December 5 - Injunctions And The Charter: Part One
December 4 - Follow Up: The Name Brand Claim Game
December 3 - "Teaching Moments" and The Charter
December 2 - Follow Up To Yesterday's Post
December 1 - The Alberta Response To The Unconstitutionality of the B.C. Impaired Driving Legislation
November 30 - The Alberta Drinking And Driving Law Blogs
November 29 - Administrative Tribunals and Duties of Fairness
November 28 - The Charter and The New Alberta Impaired Driving Laws: Going Beyond "Driving Is A Privilege"
November 27 - The Social Costs of Alberta's New Impaired Driving Regime
November 26- Holiday Gifts
November 25- Proofiness: A Companion Blog
November 24- The Optics Of Tougher Impaired Driving Laws
November 23 - The Occupy Movement And The Charter
November 22: The Occupy Movement and The Government's Right to Allocate Public Space
November 21 - Blog Update: The Limits Of Expression
November 20 - Impression And Claim: Are They Both The Same?
November 19 - A Message of Tolerance
November 18 - Pushing The Expression Envelope: Semiotics
November 17 - Music, Noise, And Expression
November 16 - Judges As Poets?
November 15 - Poetic Justice Revisted
November 14 - Legal Intuition
November 13 - Three Updates For A Sunday
November 12 - The Art and Science Of Connections
November 11 - Lest We Forget
November 10 - Thirty Day Review
November 9 -Freedom of Expression in the Classroom
November 8 - The Pridgen Case and Freedom Of Expression On Campus
November 7 - Is Saying Sorry Enough?
November 6 - It Never Hurts To Say You're Sorry
November 5 - What's In A Word? From Treason To Celebration
November 4 - Creating A Positive Out of A Negative
November 3 - Part Two: Occupying Public Space
November 2 - Freedom of Expression and Occupying Public Space Part One
November 1 - Caring Communities, Crime, and Jane Jacobs
October 31 - It's Halloween: Are You Scared?
October 30 - Being Charitable
October 28 - Impaired Driving: A Little Diversion
October 27 - A Lesson On How To Get Tough On Impaired Driving
October 26 - There is No Road To Redemption
October 25 - On The Road To The Supreme Court of Canada
October 24 - Where Has Redemption Gone
October 23 - Blog Interruption: To Kill A Mockingbird
October 22 - The Road Not Taken By The Supreme Court of Canada
October 21 - Where The Wild Things Are
October 20 - How To Celebrate Persons Day Next Year
October 19 - Julian Barnes, Sherlock Holmes, and A Miscarriage of Justice
October 18 - Wristbands Are In Effect: The "Keep A Breast" Campaign
October 17 - Am I Late For This Supreme Court of Canada Appointment?
October 16 - Is Violence The Word?
October 15 - When Does One Marijuana Plant Plus One Shared Joint Equal Nine Months Incarceration?
October 14 - Poetic Justice?
October 13 - Would You Like Some Coffee With That Mug-Shot?
October 12 - Expression, Law, and Literature
October 11 - Is "Innocent Nudity" Expression?
October 10 - Warrants to Take Bodily Substances
