At a time when cancel culture was beginning to emerge as a widespread phenomenon on campuses across the country, Runnymede’s success was highly uncertain. Six years later, it appears there was indeed a market for this thriving intellectual community.
Canada’s Charter does not in fact protect property rights, making Canadians uniquely vulnerable to the dangers of digital jail as a means for social control.
This episode of Hub Dialogues features University of Tennessee law professor Benjamin Barton about his new book on the cloistered, elite world of American justice.
This first instalment of The Hub’s weekly, subscriber-only episode of Hub Dialogues features discussion on Russia invading Ukraine and the government invoking the Emergencies Act.
Leading legal Dwight Newman joins Hub Dialogues to discuss the reasonable limits on rights and freedoms, religious freedom in Canada, and the invocation of the Emergencies Act.
The government’s action is troubling enough, but what should really disturb us is the ease and invisibility with which it is being done. When we can’t see the consequences of government conduct, the risks of government misconduct increases.
We seemed to have reached a point where protest is a carte blanche, hypocrisy is the boring norm, and the rule of law is rhetoric.
It’s possible that reaching for the Emergencies Act is not only legally questionable, but also tactically mistaken, because the internal limits and Charter implications of the law will make it an easier target for lawyers.
Trudeau’s declaration of emergency gives the federal government new powers that make it easier for the government to act to end the Ottawa protests. If it didn’t, then why declare it?
Linking trends of a “fractured” Supreme Court to partisan considerations is far too simplistic an explanation for what’s going on.
