The controversial Grassy Mountain Coal Project has been effectively shelved following a decision from Canada’s Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Jonathan Wilkinson. In a statement released Friday, Wilkinson determined that proposed open-pit coal mines in the Crowsnest Pass region of Alberta would likely “cause significant adverse environmental effects” as defined by subsections 5(1) [...]
Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Deena Hinshaw made a series of announcements last week regarding the western Canadian province’s COVID-19 strategy. On July 29, the Alberta government rescinded mandatory isolation periods for those that have come into contact with an individual who is known to have COVID-19. Starting Aug 16, isolation periods following a positive [...]
India Staff Correspondent Sambhav Sharma says that the Pegasus spyware scandal throws additional doubt on the independence of the Indian judiciary at the highest levels. He files this for JURIST from New Delhi. The Pegasus spyware allegations that circulated last month have shaken up the conscience of Indians. While it is important to assess the [...]
Mary Simon became Canada’s first Inuk Governor General on Monday. She is also the first Indigenous person to hold the position in Canada’s 154-year history, and her appointment comes at a time when Canadians are grappling with their common identity in the wake of the recovery of remains at several former residential schools. Simon has [...]
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – One of the law students reporting for JURIST in Myanmar provides an update on the condition and situation of Theint Sandi Soe, the third-year Mandalay University law student who last week was sentenced to three years in jail by a military judge in Mogok Prison. Theint Sandi Soe was arrested in June [...]
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – One of the law students filing for JURIST from Myanmar reports Tuesday on the rapidly deteriorating conditions there as COVID-19 ravages the population. The public health care system is collapsing, and the military junta is actually making things worse. In the announcement made by the Ministry of Health and Sports at 8 [...]
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Herself now ill with COVID-19 amidst the third wave of the pandemic now raging across Myanmar, one of our law students reporting for JURIST from Yangon comments on the situation there, the economic fallout from the COVID surge, and how the military junta has actually made things worse. All we are hearing [...]
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – A Myanmar law professor recently dismissed from her university post and now in hiding from the Myanmar military junta discusses the impact of the Myanmar military coup on law professors, law students and general legal education in Myanmar as the military takeover in that country enters its fifth month, with human rights, [...]
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Abrief update from one of our Myanmar law students about the Military Council requiring private schools to meet in-person as COVID cases climb: Private schools have been instructed not to allow students to study online but to teach in-person at school. If you study online, you will not get the school attendance [...]
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – As India’s COVID-19 infection rate continues to fall from its grotesque levels in early June, India correspondent Neelabh Bist takes a look at some of the impacts that the second wave of COVID-19 has had on India, its legal profession, and its court system. Still he notes that with vaccination levels very [...]
