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    • Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

    Jody Wilson-Raybould: My vision for the future of the Charter

    Opinion: As the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms turns 36, Canada’s Justice Minister says there’s plenty of work still to do—especially on Indigenous rights

    Canada’s Charter at 35: Watch a Maclean’s and Hot Docs fireside chat

    Watch a replay of John Geddes’s on-stage interview with former Supreme Court justice Ian Binnie on the legacy of Canada’s Charter

    A legendary former Supreme Court judge talks about our fundamental freedoms

    Join Maclean’s for a Hot Docs Q&A with Ian Binnie to explore our Charter in a unique event, live in Toronto or on macleans.ca on Apr. 29

    Stephen Harper’s veiled threat

    A sweeping Supreme Court declaration on the niqab suggests the federal government may be in the wrong

    Occupy protests & the Falun Gong precedent

    Can tents be considered speech?

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    The Boissoin case: freedom gains a moral victory

    So how stands freedom of the press in Alberta after Thursday’s Queen’s Bench decision tossing out the Boissoin human-rights panel ruling [PDF]? Justice E.C. Wilson’s reasons establish two big things, pending some higher-level judicial review of Alberta’s human-rights regime: