Fentanyl Trafficking in Alberta
- March 30, 2019
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid one hundred times more potent than morphine used to treat patients with severe and chronic pain. Side effects include respiratory depression, addiction, coma and death. Fentanyl is a Schedule I drug in Canada under the…
A Contextual Test for Privacy
- March 16, 2019
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
On February 14, 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada released the split 6-3 unanimous ruling in R v Jarvis, 2019 SCC 10 in which a high school teacher had been acquitted of voyeurism for surreptitiously using a pen camera to make…
The Legal Legacy of Marie Colvin
- February 24, 2019
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
It was their last conversation. Lindsey Hilsum is the international editor for Channel 4 News in Britain. Marie Colvin was an American journalist and a foreign correspondent for the British newspaper The Sunday Times. They were on Skype from Baba…
The New Cold War
- February 10, 2019
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
On December 1, 2018, the RCMP arrested Wanzhou Meng at Vancouver International Airport while she was en route from Hong Kong to Mexico City after an extradition request made by the United States. The warrant for Ms Meng’s arrest was…
Another Biometric Dragnet
- January 26, 2019
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
The police in Oakland, California, had two suspects in the crosshairs of an extortion investigation for allegedly using Facebook Messenger to demand money from their target or they would distribute an embarrassing video of him. The Government applied for a…