Introducing...A University Called INTREPID
We’re pleased to launch a new component of the growing INTREPID empire: mini-courses. Right now, we’ve put together around 5 hours of explainer video modules covering the basis of Canadian national security law. We may or may not make more courses, if we can persuade ourselves there is a business case for spending many hours doing so. But right now, our first mini-course is free and open for “enrolment” — “enrolment” means creating a sign-in account on the learning management platform we use. You can find the link under “University” in the menu above or here.
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New in Books: National Security Law 2d Edition
Leah West and Craig Forcese are pleased to announce the publication of their treatise on national security law in Canada. It is available in print and in e-book format from Irwin Law.
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Canada’s Not Back Yet: Debating Canada’s Place in the World
Canada’s failure to win a seat in the United Nations Security Council has provoked a debate over Canada’s place in the world. It was seen as a personal failure of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who when elected famously declared that “Canada is back!” But it has raised deeper questions regarding the reasons for the failure, what Canada’s role in the world should be, and indeed what it once was—should we want to be “back?” And what does that mean anyway?
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Repository of Canadian COVID-19 Emergency Orders
“Living document” repository of special legal measures introduced in Canada in response to COVID-19
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New Zealand proposes a new legal tool to tackle the foreign terrorist traveller problem
This week the Attorney General of New Zealand introduced new and novel legislation authorizing the imposition of Terrorism Suppression Control Orders on foreign terrorist travellers, returnees, individuals convicted of terrorism in foreign jurisdictions, and those who have been subject to immigration or citizenship consequences for security reasons connected to terrorism.
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Proscribing Far Right Terrorism: Canada's new terrorist listing of two far right extremist groups
Last week Canada added five new groups to Canada’s terrorist entities list, but the big news was that two of these groups were far right terrorist groups. Why is this a big deal? Leah West walks through the implications of terrorist entity listing under Canada’s criminal law.
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