Justice Department

Yet Conservatives pursue criminal-law agenda without deep research and analysis

The Justice Department doesn’t think Nathan Cullen’s request to address the joint review panel considering the Northern Gateway pipeline is in order.

Glen McGregor notes that, while Dean Del Mastro thinks “a lot of Canadians would be really troubled to know that we are spending an awful lot of taxpayers’ money on a court case where in fact they’re funding both sides of it” so far as it concerns the CBC, two federal departments are also fighting the information commissioner in court.

Last week, after receiving this response, I asked the Justice Department if it might provide specific answers to questions asked about the redaction of a 2006 field report that referenced abuse of a detainee in Afghanistan. Yesterday afternoon, after further prodding, an e-mail arrived.

Two months after the government was first asked to explain why a reference to abuse in a 2006 field report was redacted in 2007, but released uncensored in 2009, the questions having been put to three different departments, an answer, of sorts, arrives from the Justice Department.

The grilling the former British PM is getting over invading Iraq suits the enemy just fine

The Parliamentary Law Clerk responds to the Justice Department’s response.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio is accused of punishing those who cross him

Six years later, Mulroney has yet to give us a convincing account of his deal with Schreiber. Can we really leave it at that?