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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

All Quiet on the Health Care Front

Executive privilege and the Canadian Air Force

Class action injustice

Faith in the public square?

American lessons for bill C-51

Life and death after Carter

The Harper revolution in criminal justice policy… and what comes next

From law grad to better citizen

An open letter to the Canadian judiciary

  • by Shirley Cardenas 

La Charte de la laïcité

Fighting back

Debating euthanasia

Deleting revenge porn

Restoring justice for First Nations

Supreme confusion

Police inaction

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