Informed analysis on events in Canadian politics in an era of misinformation and democratic decline.
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The Ontario Court of Appeal (ONCA) has overturned a trial court decision finding that the removal of bike lanes violated section 7 of the Charter and the right to life, liberty and security of the person.
In the Golden Age of Twitter, before it was bought up by a white supremacist oligarch and transformed into a wasteland of disinformation and hate, the Canadian politics nerds used to half-joke about how badly Canada needed The Economist Party.
Why the courts might, but shouldn't, permit it
I was delighted to see my latest book, a collection of papers co-edited with my friend Kate Puddister, has been published by the University of Toronto Press.
Michael Plaxton has an excellent new post on the apparent whiplash-like oscillations in the Supreme Court of Canada when it comes to describing and applying an approach to constitutional interpretation.
Justice Rowe's reasons are a masterclass of precision and clarity
In a televised address last night Danielle Smith launched a xenophobic assault on immigration and proposed a set of referendum questions for next Fall advocating a constitutional agenda that would reduce Canada to a rump of pathetic, disaggregated fiefdoms.
Danielle Smith has threatened to withhold provincial funding for new judicial appointments unless the province gets more of a say in selecting judges.
The media has been talking a lot about secession lately, with an organized separatist movement in Alberta (albeit with support that looks increasingly weak), and the spectre of a third Quebec vote possibly on the horizon (although support for independence remains relatively weak in Quebec as well, and the idea of another referendum even less popular
For anyone born in the 70s or 80s, it is abundantly clear we’re living in the most perilous period of our lifetimes.
