Besides being unconstitutional, such a law would be thoroughly illiberal and ill-advised. It raises the spectre of driving anti-Indigenous racism underground, where it will flourish away from the disinfecting influence of open discourse.
The Canadian government will suspend all advertising on Facebook and Instagram, Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez announced on Tuesday.
This episode of Hub Dialogues features host Sean Speer in conversation with James Rosen, a journalist, historian, and best-selling author, about the first book in his two-volume biography of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia entitled, Scalia: The Rise to Greatness, 1936 to 1986.
International law may contain important guidance for the implementation of laws and useful resources for those who wish to critique existing laws. But unless Canadian legislatures adopt international norms as laws that govern Canadian citizens, those norms are, at best, guidance for the political branches of government.
Premier Smith and her colleagues in other provinces ought to recommit themselves to protecting their legislative authority from federal intrusion. That starts with saying no to new attempts to use the federal spending power.
There’s something perverse about the news media relying on two founding sources to which it often finds itself investigating: big government and big tech. The potential consequences for journalistic decision-making as well as the public trust are profound.
Chief Justice Wagner’s early statement that he “put” Justice Brown on leave suggested that he assumed a power he did not have: the power to place a judge on involuntary leave.
The premature retirement of Justice Brown is not only to the detriment of one of Canada’s finest jurists and legal minds but also to our core legal institutions and to Canadians who have been denied an opportunity to learn the truth.
Russell Brown announced on Monday that he would step down as a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. The Hub’s writers explain what it means for law in Canada.
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez, who led the crafting of Bill C-18, was questioned by the Senate’s Transport and Communications committee on Wednesday. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, and Google are considering restricting the ability of Canadians to view online news content due to the legislation.
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