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Posted: April 18, 2012
Several millennia ago, Aristotle asserted that man was different from the animals because only he had the gift of (thoughtful) speech. The cursing generation seems intent on erasing that distinction as Mark Milke explains…
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Authors » Bob Tarantino
Bob Tarantino is a Toronto-based entertainment lawyer and freelance writer. His columns have appeared in the Ottawa Citizen, the National Post and This Magazine. Tarantino has published academic legal writing in journals in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States, and his first book, "Under Arrest - Canadian Laws You Won't Believe", was published in 2007 by Dundurn Press.
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Posted: April 18, 2012
Bob Tarantino looks at the sentence of pedophile Graham James, other recent wrist-tap cases, the Ontario Court of Appeal, appellate judges, and the Criminal Code—and finds what journalists John Geddes and Dan Gardner missed—in-your-face lenient sentences…(warning to readers: some of what follows describes crimes in graphic detail).
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Posted: March 20, 2012
Little common ground exists between those who view Omar Khadr as a tortured man-child whose purported abandonment ranks as among the most grievous injustices of the last decade, and those who would have preferred that the enthusiastic young al Qaeda soldier had been left to die on the battlefield. C2C Journal’s Bob Tarantino reviews Ezra Levant’s new book, The Enemy Within: Terror, Lies and the Whitewashing of Omar Khadr.
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Posted: January 10, 2012
Peter Newman could have written an insightful analysis on how and why the federal Liberal party was eviscerated. This isn’t it, writes Bob Tarantino in his review of When the Gods Changed….
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Posted: November 28, 2011
Chronicle, affirmation, and cri de coeur, A Matter of Principle is Conrad Black’s most personal and gripping book – while also, at times, his most frustrating.
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Posted: December 3, 2010
Bob Tarantino takes a look at Dan Gardner’s new book—and finds Gardner pulls his punches with fellow media….
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Posted: November 9, 2010
Toronto lawyer Bob Tarantino argues the recent verdict on Robert Semrau was both understanding of battlefield conditions—and just.
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