How conservative is new Supreme Court judge Russell Brown?
He’s a libertarian, perhaps, but the newest member of the Supreme Court of Canada is no Antonin Scalia
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Supreme Court of Canada
Stephen Harper’s veiled threat
A sweeping Supreme Court declaration on the niqab suggests the federal government may be in the wrong
Cross-border shopping for a good death
Canada’s top court gave the federal government a year to implement its ruling on doctor-assisted suicide. What if the provinces are left to sort it out amongst themselves?
’Dignity in death has energized my will to live’
For one MS sufferer, the Supreme Court ruling on doctor-assisted death brings relief. For another, it was too late.
Interview: The CMA’s president on assisted dying
Dr. Chris Simpson calls for a process to set new rules
Top court allows ’physician-assisted death’
John Geddes on the legal and ethical conundrum handed to the federal government by the Supreme Court’s historic decision
Victims of communism-memorial designs worried Chief Justice
Letter from Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin flags memorial’s potential ’bleakness and brutalism’
Chief Justice McLachlin wanted another woman on the court
’Gender politics don’t play a role once you get beyond a certain number,’ chief justice says
Supreme Court hearing on assisted suicide attracts overflow crowd
Maclean’s contributor Cormac MacSweeney reports from the start of the hearings
Ignore the Senate
Stephen Harper’s go-it-alone approach to Senate reform was doomed from the start. And now he’s free to focus on his real interests.