Recent content by tmmsmyth

Given Trump just appointed Matt Gaetz as his attorney general(Gaetz is a known client of SWers including certain underage ones) I think the quick answer is no. Gaetz is probably going to have providers start making office calls to the DOJ building in Washington, DC. **Gaetz also is known to...

Interesting to see that Quebec is NOT intervening in this case unlike BC, Ontario, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia.

I also want to add from my own perspective that the BC NDP in the form of the BC AG is being chickenshit in defending PCEPA before the Supreme Court of Canada despite the NDP repeatedly criticizing the law and in fact knowing quite well that the law really isn't being enforced in BC anyways. I...

Alvin Bragg the Manhattan DA who is also prosecuting Donald Trump is essentially letting NY state prostitution law fall into desuetude. Now as a practical matter providers in NYC and Manhattan in particular are really expensive by Toronto standards and might continue that way even if explicit...

Actually according to another different set of cases from the Supreme Court of Canada involving swinger's clubs called Labaye you do have a fundamental right to sex as long as it is consensual, you are an adult and it is of public view. Or at least the Supreme Court of Canada has strongly given...

Comparing the Ontario Court of Appeals and the US Supreme Court is a bit apples and oranges but I will say this leaked opinion is pure judicial radicalism compared to the OCA's desperate politically motivated to desire in my opinion to avoid dealing with the fundamental issues with Bill C-36 on...

There are definitely Conservative MP's(like Leslyn Lewis and Charles McVety) who want to overturn Morgentaler and I suspect this ruling out of the US will only wet their appetite. Trudeau will I suspect hang this around the necks of the Conservatives and rightfully so. You are correct that...

I posted a thread in the Bill C-36 forum in light of Alito arguing that to continue Roe and Griswold as doctrine means the court will have to recognize sex work and illicit drug use as legally protected rights(shades of Insite and Bedford in Canada). By making this radical political shift to the...

Quick opinion of mine is yes especially as the US Supreme Court leaked majority opinion says the right to prostitution and illegal drug use is at it's foundation the same as the rights pronounced in Griswold and Roe. In this political environment there is no way the Supreme Court of Canada is...

My short answer re: the Court decision is they basically punted. The appeals court decision basically says none of the longstanding arguments that many have made against C-36 were litigated during the R. v. NS. trial and thus are irrelevant towards the appeal. In some sense I don't think this...

Some big news items coming out on the PCEPA C-36 Front. I have some of my own thoughts but will share them later. https://www.ontariocourts.ca/decisions/2022/2022ONCA0160.htm

This is a key point something the Nordic model feminist types seem to misunderstand. The courts have said you can't consent to physical harmful activities such as a street brawl or a mutually agreed fistfight in a bar room but they have also said that non harmful activities such as sexual...

I made a thread on the Politics and International Board about the hearing at the US Supreme Court today on overturning Roe vs Wade. While no one would ever admit this in Canadian legal circles I do think the apparently high odds that SCOTUS is going to overturn Roe will make the Supreme Court of...

One of the implications I believe beyond the United States is I think the Supreme Court of Canada which has moved as far to the left post Morgantaler under Justice Dickson as the SCOTUS has moved to the right might be inclined to lay down some markers in front of Canadian social conservatives to...