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Reconciliation can’t wait another generation

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Children’s rights: How to make justice truly accessible

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Elbows up: Keeping Canadian companies in Canadian hands

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The notwithstanding clause needs more nuanced debate

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New hate-crime bill must confront the enforcement gap

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Cultivating the pluralism dividend in Canada’s democracy

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Consent confusion and the Hockey Canada sexual-assault trial

Gary Anandasangaree with cameras and journalists in the unfocused background.

Recognizing the Tamil Canadian experience in public life

Understanding freedom of conscience

NAFTA and a made-in-Canada IP framework

Time to rethink sexual assault trials

Is acknowledging Indigenous territory enough?

Supreme Court’s IP ruling encourages innovation

Balancing privacy and security in the digital age

Access to information law requires big reforms

Reviewing copyright? Check the glossary.

How legalizing pot could bring more arrests

The holes in the Access to Info system

Why some essential medicines are unavailable in Canada

Weeding out crooked immigration consultants

Rethinking copyright for Indigenous creative works

Who owns Indigenous cultural and intellectual property?

A Copyright Board for Canada at 150

A report card on the national security bill

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