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Amusing Counsel - Voting Systems
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Hot off the presses, we discuss the results of an election that happened, like, a month ago - because New Brunswick was kind enough to give us a really cool edge case for Westminster Democracies - and although we didn't know it at the time, we were on track for a government being formed by a party that won the second-largest amount of seats!…
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In terms of narrative punch, it's hard to beat the Star Trek classic "Does this thing have rights?" episode. But when you take them as a whole, it kind of tells a story the Federation might not want you to hear...Door Andrew Di Lullo & Kristian Listrom
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Episode 30 - The Issue of Consent
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Although the legal community has been wrestling with and working on the definition and meaning of consent since the 1980's (at least!), the concept hasn't really had a lot of cultural currency until the beginning of the #MeToo movement. In Ontario, the issue has come up as well in the context of the scrapped health and sex education curriculum, whi…
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Episode 29 - Bardal's the name, dismissal's the game.
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The venerable pillars of employment law - the Bardal factors! What are they, what do they mean, and why do we have them at all? Answers to these questions and more inside.Door Andrew Di Lullo & Kristian Listrom
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Episode 28 - Making secrets
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Privacy and control of personal information is a big concerns these days, but most of the focus is how to secure privacy rights of individuals' data from use by corporations. What about privacy from one another? Do we have any kind of a right to that? Should we? Andrew muses. Kristian indulges.Door Andrew Di Lullo & Kristian Listrom
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