In a recent podcast interview, my American host asked me to comment on whether Canada constituted a nation, in the substantive sense. Beyond platitudes such as a shared commitment to multiculturalism, general good government, and a thin conception of liberty, there is not much there there, I reflected. No, there…
Are distasteful jokes “punching down” at a disabled child a violation of constitutional or human rights laws? In the case of Mike Ward, today a slim majority of the Supreme Court of Canada has answered no, and held a line, for now, against the right not to be offended. The…
Next week, a case pitting pieties against realities in Canada’s public health care system and what is necessary to safeguard it will be argued at the B.C. Court of Appeal. The appeal follows an unsuccessful constitutional challenge to two provisions of B.C.’s Medicare Protection Act. The first prohibits surgeons from…
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