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Safety Above All: New Release Warns of Growing Threat to Civil Liberties in Canada

Safety Above All: New Release Warns of Growing Threat to Civil Liberties in Canada

TORONTO: A timely new report, Safety Above All: How the Culture of “Safetyism” Is Eroding Civil Liberties in Canada, is available now from CCF Litigation Director Christine Van Geyn. This follows the CCF’s recent launch of a petition opposing Nova Scotia’s sweeping forest access ban.The digital, downloadable report examines how the prioritization of physical…

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PEI court finds local councillor’s free expression case meritorious, but cannot proceed
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PEI court finds local councillor’s free expression case meritorious, but cannot proceed

CHARLOTTETOWN - A Prince Edward Island Supreme Court judge has found that a P.E.I. village councillor’s legal challenge to sanctions he received for a message on a private signboard cannot move forward because he did not file his judicial review on time. The Hon. Justice Coady stated in his decision…

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Court gets it right in appeal of challenge to constitutionality of first-past-the-post voting system
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Court gets it right in appeal of challenge to constitutionality of first-past-the-post voting system

TORONTO: The Canadian Constitution Foundation is pleased that the Ontario Court of Appeal has dismissed a legal challenge to the first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting system. In Fair Voting and Springtide v Attorney General of Canada, the CCF argued as an intervener that the FPTP system is constitutional. Read the decision here: https://coadecisions.ontariocourts.ca/coa/coa/en/item/23512/index.do Justice…

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