obscenity i know it when i see it

• R. v. Katigbak , 2011 SCC 48, R. v. Katigbak, 2011 SCC 48, 2011 SCC 48 (2011)

... this "public good" defence from the obscenity provisions of the Criminal Code by providing:. (7)... that he wanted "those feelings to be fresh" when he was working on the project (A.R., at p. 93). [1... of duplicity, namely: "[D]oes the accused know the case he has to meet, or is he prejudiced in th...

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• A Lesson in the Science of Laughter

Even in the course of a press conference, the Oscar-winning actor/comedian will freely improvise on current events. ("It was interesting that they went with a German Pope. It's great for the Swiss Guard to have artillery.") He can spew obscenity like Linda Blair possessed by a benign demon. He'll even stick his head into the press conference of his two License to Wed co-stars, Mandy Moore and John Krasinski, affecting the voice of an sissified fashion designer to warn Moore not to follow the likes of Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears into rehab. ("You'll be coming out the revolving door saying, 'I'm having a birthday party sponsored by Stolichnaya.'") He deflects another question about marriage: "I think it's great. I think I'd like to be married some day," he says. "But I'll start with ...

... to fight to get John in this film because when we cast the film, The Office had only been on the ..."I know I'm guilty of it. . "When I look at my parents, I'...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 20, 2009

• R. v. Labaye, [2005] 3 S.C.R. 728, 2005 SCC 80, 2005 SCC 80 (2005)

...Moreover, when the standard of tolerance is established on the ba..., the legal concepts of indecency and obscenity, as applied to conduct and publications, respectiv... with a numeric lock whose access code was known to all club members. All these facts confirm that ...

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• Confronting collective harm: technology's transformative impact on child pornography.

... industry, from possessing and knowingly accessing child pornography through to manufacturi... in Canada was dealt with under the obscenity provision of the Criminal Code, the constitutional... was sufficient social science evidence, when combined with common sense and experience, to subs...

• University of New Brunswick Law Journal
• Nbr. 56, January 2007

• R. v. Butler, [1992] 1 S.C.R. 452 (1992)

... law -- Freedom of expression -- Obscenity -- Obscene materials -- Whether definition of obsc... to formulate workable tests to determine when the exploitation of sex is "undue". The most impor...(2) Every one commits an offence who knowingly, without lawful justification or excuse,. (a) sell...

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• R. v. Mara, [1997] 2 S.C.R. 630 (1997)

... in this context should be equated with "knowingly" in the context of s. 163(2) of the Criminal Code.... beyond conduct which would be permissible when measured against the Canadian community standard o... "community standards" referred to in obscenity and indecency cases were to be the standards of th...

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• Epistemological Reflections On Sex and Fieldwork

The exoticization of fieldwork structurally genders the discipline and its central practice as male. This gendering is both symbolic and real. Even before Kenneth S. Goldstein defined the ideal field team as "the folklorist and his wife" ( 1964) came the presumption that the professional folklorist-in-training, the graduate student, could simply up sticks and move someplace far away. There he will enact a mysterious and transformative encounter with "his people" - fieldwork. Presumptions of the gender of fieldworkers structure actual fieldwork, as we'll show. But they are also quite contrary to the actual sex of fieldworkers in our disciplines; most are female. Of course, sex and gender do not always go together; early examinations of women fieldworkers wondered at how they became "symb...

...When Nigel Barley's insurers were comparing anthropolog... mind that an interest in alcohol or obscenity would mark a woman - especially an unmarried one -... informants would feign emotions and knowledge; just as sex workers are expected, yet simultaneou...

• Resources for Feminist Research
• Vol. 32 Nbr. 3/4, July 2007

• Timberwest Forest Corp. v. Canada, 2007 FC 148 (2007)

...[14] The first ground of exemption is known as the surplus test. It operates by permitting B.C... the benefits that are lost to the province when logs leave the province for processing elsewhere. ... Department opinion on the definition of obscenity violated the appellants’ Charter rights. However...

• Federal Court

• Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada (Minister of Justice), [2000] 2 S.C.R. 1120, 2000 SCC 69, 2000 SCC 69 (2000)

... on the importer the onus of disproving obscenity. An importer has a Charter right to receive expres... appellants suffered differential treatment when compared to importers of heterosexually explicit m... in Vancouver for many years, did not know that Customs inspected books for obscenity until s...

• Supreme Court of Canada

• Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada (Commissioner of Customs and Revenue), [2007] 1 S.C.R. 38, 2007 SCC 2, 2007 SCC 2 (2007)

...When this litigation began, L had already fought a prot..., L asks for a reversal of Customs' obscenity determinations and a declaration that Customs has ... at stake and the public's interest in knowing whether the government had failed to comply with a...

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