Author Archives: Bill Sundhu
SAS v France: Le Droit a manifester religion, Est-ce que l’existe en France?
Cette semaine, La Cour Europeenne des Droits Humaines (ECtDH) en SAS v France a decide que la Loi 2010-1192 interdisant la dissimulation du visage dans l’espace publique ne viole pas la Convention Europeenne des Droits Humaines. Le jugement continue les … Continue reading
Le Grand Marches d’Aix-en-Provence
La ville d’Aix-en-Provence a un Grand Marche tres interessant colore et bien organise. Le Grand Marche est situe sur trois places, qui sont uniques et belles. Le Cours Mirabeau est la grande allee d’Aix-en-Provence avec de belles fontaines, les batiments … Continue reading
France 2014
J’ecris ce Blog en Francais. Il reflete mon sentiment et je pense que pendant mes etudes de la langue Francaise que je prends a l’ Institut des Etudes Americaines a Aix-en- Provence. Pour moi, je suis venu sept fois … Continue reading
The Komagata Maru & The Lessons of History
100 YEARS AGO, the 376 passengers of the Komagata Maru were refused entry into British Columbia by Canadian authorities. They experienced racism and hostility, hardship and deprivation: they were unable to land, lacked food and water, denied medical care, unable … Continue reading
Why Human Rights Matter to Today’s Politics
“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.” W. Somerset … Continue reading
Canada’s “Fair Elections Act”: What Is It Really About?
The right to vote and the integrity of the voting process is at the heart of democracy. Governments derive their legitimacy from a fair and free right to vote. Democracy and elections to not belong to any one party, nor … Continue reading
Need for equal society has never been more apparent
Originally published by Kamloops This Week (December 31. 2013): “Issue facing Kamloops in 2013 & 2014: What were they? What will they be?” The biggest issue is an evolving one, what kind of city and community are we going to … Continue reading
Canada’s Conservatives: Debasing Democracy
Canadians should be deeply concerned at the erosion and debasement of democracy by Canada’s federal Conservative government. Using CSIS and the RCMP to spy on environmentalists, including seniors in a Church basement in Kelowna and the all-native high school basketball … Continue reading
Submission: Vanished and Missing Aboriginal Women (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights)
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Attention: Dinah Shelton, Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Dear Professor Shelton: Re: IACHR: Canada – Vanished and Missing Aboriginal Women – Investigation I am a Canadian lawyer, a former judge and a member … Continue reading
Twelve Years After 9/11: What Have We Learned?
This week the Obama administration issued a travel warning to its citizens and shutdown several US embassies across Africa and the mid-East – in response to the threat of a terrorist attack. Amongst my papers, I found a clipping I … Continue reading