Yesterday (October 17, 2016), Douglas Cardinal lost his bid to enjoin the Cleveland Indian baseball club from using its name and logos in Toronto during the American League Championship series against the Blue Jays. In 2003 and 2010, I published columns in The Lawyers Weekly on this c

[Introductory note: In 1929, the “Famous Five” feminist activists (Henrietta Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy,and Irene Parlby) argued in the Supreme Court of Canada that women were “persons,” as the Canadian constitution puts it, qualified to sit in the country’

As a bit of fun on this hot summer’s Friday, an offering from Miller’s Maxims, my writings as self-appointed poet laureate to the Canadian bar. The Law Does Not Concern Itself with Truffles De minimis non curat lex (“The law does not concern itself with trifles” – an old l