Most skeptics of self-government are content to trust policy-making to the courts because they assume judges generally think the same way they do about politics.
The law is often an insufficiently surgical instrument to remedy social ills. The human connection, often in the form of small gestures, is far superior.
Marie Henein speaks to The Hub about her early career and the current state of the criminal justice system in Canada.
The Ward decision was one judge away from rendering the spectre of government fines for offensive jokes a constitutional requirement, an outcome that would be the death knell of comedy.
There may have been political reasons to oppose the Act, but in this case the judge’s rushed decision ignored some inescapable facts.
Over the coming days, The Hub will publish mandate letters for the incoming cabinet ministers that set out a series of bold policy prescriptions that would cumulatively tilt Canadian politics…
The number of Canadians vaccinated against COVID-19 may be insufficient to guarantee a return to normal life. An obvious way to encourage higher vaccine take-up is restricting the liberty, including taking away the jobs, of the unvaccinated. But is it legal?
Canada’s courts have not become as politicized as those in the United States. But suggestions that their decisions should be ignored are alarming and bring us further in an American direction.
Cannabis legalization has worked out well in this country for several reasons—not least of which is the fact that Canadians were ready for it.
The government’s proposed legislation will make the pool of potential Supreme Court justices more Laurentian and more elite.
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