When the bank forecloses on someone's home, their credit is ruined and they run the risk of becoming homeless. The foreclosure also affects the whole community as empty houses fall into disrepair. Kansas City, Missouri has been hit hard by the financial crisis. Mary Rabon is a community organizer in...

Over two years ago, Simon Chester noted, 75 percent of all traffic on the Internet is due to file sharing, with 59 percent of that file sharing attributed to people swapping video files. Music tracks account for 33 percent of the file-sharing traffic. E-mail, it turns out, accounts for just 9 percen...

If you were an early bird like me and on your computer circa 5:30-5:45 a.m. EST this morning, or on the other side of the world when this would be a reasonable time of the day, you too may have participated in the “Great Gmail outage of February 2009.” Yes, Gmail was down, and mass panic...

have 2 hard drives on my pc.my system is xp home version 2002 with service pack 3 and it is an amd sempron 2400+ 1.67 ghz, 1gb of ram when i try to open either of my hard drives from the shortcut or my computer (which have always worked up till now) get the message "C:\resycled\boot.com is not ...

Last week I met with Mitch Kowalski of the Legal Post.  He mentioned our conversation earlier today on the site, which is the kick in the butt I needed to do my own write-up on it during our break from school. Mitch is an alumn from my school, Western Law, but has chosen a career path unique from m...

The concept of solicitor-client privilege goes back at least 400 years in the common law, and is one of the most well established concepts of privilege in our legal system. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) was recently caught listening and recording conversations with Mohamed Zeki M...

Prostitution has been legalized in Australia. The law was changed in the opposite direction in Sweden. Sheila Jefferys and Gunilla Ekberg share their perspectives on the effects of these two differing legal strategies....

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. - Master Yoda, P.C., C.J.C. In this award-winning 2006 film produced in cooperation with the CBC, Steel Toes tells the story of a neo-Nazi living in Montreal.  He viciously attacks an Indian immigr...

More union activists have been killed in Colombia than in the rest of the world combined. It is the most dangerous country to organize bar none. Despite this, Canada signed a free trade agreement with Colombia that will see even more pressure put on workers to produce goods at lower costs. Jesus Lor...

It’s not the first time a city or location is suing for intellectual property in its name.  But it’s probably the first time a major blockbuster has been the target of the lawsuit. The city of Batman, located in eastern Turkey, is named after the river by the same name that flows into t...