There’s a famous GLBT&c bookstore called Little Sister’s on Davie Street in Vancouver.  There’s also a famous 2003 decision from the Supreme Court of Canada that says that Canadian courts can order the government to advance private litigants the costs necessary to bring public interest claims.  Little Sister’s said it should get one of those […]

The Governor of California has just recently proposed a state budget that includes $5 million over three years to provide counsel to otherwise self-represented litigants in civil cases. Although nobody seems to have details yet about how the program would work, it’s probably some form of judicare.

A day later than I’d planned, I’ve made it to Halifax, Nova Scotia, largest city (or something) in Atlantic Canada. Not only did I get here, I was able to buy groceries too—something I couldn’t have done just a few months ago. Despite Canada’s comparative irreligiosity, some provinces’ Sunday shopping prohibitions have only […]

A new bill introduced this month in the U.S. Senate would ease restrictions on the types of clients that American federally-funded legal aid programs can serve. According to the Legal Services Corporation, S. 237 would let LSC grant recipients help non-U.S. citizens apply for legal temporary residence in the U.S. and help legal temporary […]

This week, the Canadian government apologized to a citizen and offered him $10.5 million CDN. This week, the U.S. government insisted on continuing to consider that person a terrorist threat. This week, the U.S. president continued to promise that many more troops and dollars would be spent in Iraq. This week, the […]

Yesterday I made my way from the Atlantic coast towards the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the birthplace of Canada—Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. This city, which is the provincial capital of Canada’s smallest province, is also notable for being outstandingly charming and home to a decidedly frozen harbor (a change from the ice-free ports […]

Recently the author of this blog over here suggested that the denial-of-service attack idea could be used as a model for real-life protesting.  I thought, “now that could surely work,” and wondered why I’d never heard of anything like that (except maybe this or this).  Tonight, however, at the Charlottetown stop of the Wal-Town tour, […]