Charter of Rights
The Liberals’ disregard for workers’ rights
Tom Parkin: The Trudeau government ploughed over postal workers’ well-established charter right to strike. It’s been tried before and ends badly.
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
Justin Trudeau should read the Charter of Rights
Stephen Maher: The Liberals are choosing to play politics with summer camp funding, and taking a stupid legal risk in the process
Equality before the law
Irwin Cotler criticizes the Harper government’s decision to cut prison chaplains.
The Supreme Court is culpable in the Omar Khadr case
The Harper government is guilty of stonewalling– but that’s largely because the Court allowed it
How did the student standoff come to this?
Emmett Macfarlane on the sorry state of policy debate
How Quebec’s back-to-school bill fails
Political scientist Emmett Macfarlane weighs in
Quebec’s protest crackdown: It’s not just rights that make it wrong
The problem up until now has been a lack of enforcement, not a lack of legislation
Stephen Harper’s Spite of Charter, 30th-anniversary edition
The prime minister is hardly trash-talking the constitution here
‘Making Canada a meaningful contributor in the world’
Given the Harper government’s eagerness to celebrate international recognition, there will no doubt be congratulations offered in the House this week for Pierre Trudeau on the occasion of a new study heralding the global influence of the Charter.
Occupy protests & the Falun Gong precedent
Can tents be considered speech?
Why should polygamy be a crime?
COYNE: We don’t need to ban polygamy to ban rape: it’s banned already.