The ’free the beer’ ruling and the Supreme Court’s record of putting the brakes on change
On stock market regulation, Senate reform, even appointments to its own bench, the top court has disappointed those unhappy with the status quo
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Marc Nadon
Stephen Harper’s most unfortunate appointments
Nearly a decade of appointing people to positions of power has left Stephen Harper with a number of unfortunate associations
Is the Supreme Court review process dead? Was it ever really alive?
The Prime Minister appoints a justice without parliamentary review
Let’s watch Stephen Harper dance around the Nadon controversy
And Thomas Mulcair pulls at loose threads
A constitutional amendment to appoint Nadon?
The government’s at least not ruling it out
You think it’s easy to make Supreme Court appointments?
New revelations and lingering questions about the Nadon appointment
Irwin Cotler on the Supreme Court
And the Harper government’s relationship with the court
The unappointment of Marc Nadon as slapstick
The government laughs off questions about the attempted appointment of Marc Nadon as the controversy over the Supreme Court continues
By the way, when are we going to get a new Supreme Court judge? And how?
The unexplained search for a new judge
The Justice Minister suggests the Chief Justice started it
One shouldn’t respond to anonymous Conservatives apparently