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The Supreme Court of Canada is set to hear an appeal about whether or not the Ontario Superior Court should...
As Canadians cope with the chaos that the second Donald Trump administration rains down on them, with ever-present threats of...
The Federal Court has granted an expedited hearing of a legal challenge to the prime minister’s decision to prorogue Parliament...
The Supreme Court of Canada’s 2024 workload was not quite back up to pre-pandemic levels, but it has been getting...
The federal Liberal leadership contest is officially underway, under a compressed timeline that leaves many to complain that there isn’t...
2025 was going to be an election year in Canada regardless of what happened. There had been an open question...
Talk of creeping authoritarianism mostly conjures images of foreign places—the toxic influence of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán in the European Union...
The recent spate of provincial elections in Canada were a mixed bag of results. They were in turn dwarfed by...
Alberta premier Danielle Smith released a six-minute video last week to outline what her government’s legislation on trans issues in...
The Federal Court of Appeal’s recent finding that Facebook Inc. violated its privacy obligations by failing to properly advise people...
Three provinces are going to the polls this fall—New Brunswick, Saskatchewan and British Columbia—and all three feature conservative parties that...
If you listen to Canadian political commentary, a certain kind of fatalism has sunk in: a Pierre Poilievre and Conservative...
Queer diplomacy globally has made tremendous strides from the first mass demonstration outside of the United Nations in New York...
Anew report by Over Zero, a research and training group founded in response to the global need to counteract and...
The federal government’s budget implementation bill contains controversial provisions that would allow the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) to use...
Given the preponderance of “Big Lie” claims in the United States that spread falsehoods about election fraud, it’s no surprise...
After weeks of riding high in the polls, Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre has become much more emboldened...
The 2024 federal budget contains several measures for the legal system, most of them having to do with new funding...
Last week, nearly a year to the day since Uganda passed its latest draconian anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, the country’s constitutional court...
There were national headlines made last week when the citizens of the town of Westlock, Alberta, voted in a new...
Bill C-63 is a significant departure from an earlier effort to pass online harms legislation, which died on the order...
Could the government be one step closer to monitoring Canadians’ porn habits? Bill S-210, the Senate bill reintroduced in 202...
For now, it appears Canadians will have to wait, at least until after the next election cycle, but the word...
The BC government has reached a settlement agreement in a Charter challenge around the funding of legal aid that will...
In the wake of Danielle Smith’s announced policy about limiting gender-affirming care in Alberta and taking other measures such as...
Alberta premier Danielle Smith appearing as a featured guest at a Calgary event last week featuring American far-right entertainer Tucker...
What standard of proof should disciplinary hearings in provincial jails rely on? The balance of probabilities or beyond a reasonable...
Last week, there was a major hullabaloo made of Rebel Media personality David Menzies being detained by an RCMP protective...
The House of Commons witnessed its fair share of chaos during last year's fall sitting. Speaker Anthony Rota resigned in...
New Brunswick premier Blaine Higgs has declared that he’s not going to back down from his attacks on trans kids...
An Ontario court has dismissed an attempted defence of a defamation suit launched by drag performer Caitlin Hartlen and Rainbow...
In Canadian politics, 2023 was the year that the moral panic around “parental rights” made a comeback in a very...
One particular story has been lurking under the surface for the past couple of months, which was how a group...
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