By a vote of 9 to 2, Mexico’s Supreme Court upheld a Mexico City law allowing same-sex couples to adopt children. The Court found that heterosexual couples, divorced parents, single parents, and same-sex couples share equal protection under the Mexican constitution and therefore denying any of these groups the right to adopt is discriminatory.  

Shares in New Gold, Incorporated dropped 15 percent on November 18, in the wake of the Mexican government's closure of the Cerro de San Pedro mine in San Luis Polosi. The mine is run by Minera San Xavier, a subsidiary of New Gold, which is a Canadian company with operations in Mexico, the United States, Chile and Australia. PROFEPA, Mexico's environmental enforcement agency, closed down the mine following court orders from the Ninth Circuit Administrative Court and the Federal Tribunal of Fiscal and Administrative Justice (SEMARNAT), according to MiningWatch Canada.

A record number of extraditions have occurred over the Mexican border this year, with numbers reaching 100 at the beginning of November.

Sheldon Alberts, Star Phoenix Will Jennifer Granholm's Canadian birth certificate keep the two-term Michigan governor off the United States Supreme Court? As U.S. President Barack Obama whittles down his list of potential Supreme Court nominees, Granholm has reportedly landed on a White House short list of six candidates under serious consideration for the vacancy being created by the impending retirement of Justice David Souter. Read the full story From: NewsCan: For May 8 to May 14, 2009

The Green Energy Act, now before the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, is designed to expedite the process of promoting subsidized industrial wind power in the province by taking planning responsibilities away from local municipalities, while remitting most key decisions to subsequent Ministerial regulations. Michael Trebilcock, Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Toronto and fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute, shares five major objections he has to the pending legislation.

The Institute of Parliamentary and Political Law has begun planning for the Third Law and Parliament Conference, to be held in the fall of 2009.  Following up on the first two conferences held in 2004 and 2006 respectively, the timely theme of this gathering will be Parliament and Government: Partners and Adversaries. The conference will deal with the following topics, among others: •    Questions and Answers about Canadian Parliamentarianism. -Canadian variant of the Westminster system. - Americanization of Parliamentary politics. - Question Period. - Partisanship v. policy.