Last September, a Quebec Superior Court judge struck down key provisions in the Quebec and federal laws on medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in what’s known as the Truchon...
Meghan and Harry’s decision to live in Canada is a mixed blessing for monarchists and republicans alike. Many monarchists will be pleased to have a semipermanent royal-ish couple in...
The government of New Brunswick has recently come under fire for introducing a bill (Bill 11) that invokes the Charter’s “notwithstanding clause.” The bill would pre-emptively insulate from judicial...
(This article has been translated from French.) On December 9, 2019, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada published the results of an investigation into complaints that Statistics...
The legalization of cannabis and the pardon system for simple possession charges should have decreased the criminalization surrounding the drug. Yet advocates say the impact of legalization won’t be...
The Rohingya refugee crisis is unprecedented in scale. In the past two years, more than 745,000 people have fled from Myanmar to Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. More than 902,000...
Deux ans après le référendum d’autodétermination de la Catalogne, le 1er octobre 2017, la crise catalane continue de susciter une attention politique et médiatique considérable au Canada, et en...
La promesse faite par les libéraux en octobre 2019, quelques jours avant le déclenchement des élections, d’intégrer la perspective des personnes handicapées à toutes les décisions du fédéral a...
The Toronto Police Services Board has approved an important policy that will see the Toronto Police Service begin collecting and publicly reporting race-based data on several types of interactions...
(This article has been translated into French.) The Quebec Superior Court recently expanded access to medical assistance in dying (MAiD). If higher courts uphold the decision or if the federal government...
