Asper Centre’s fireside chat delves into the future of Charter litigation in Canada

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Asper Centre Fireside Chat with David Asper and Raj Anand
From left, Cheryl Milne, David Asper and Raj Anand at the Asper Centre fireside chat

By Christopher R. Graham / Photography by Salathiel Wesser

Perspectives on the Future of Charter Litigation in Canada: A Fireside Chat with Raj Anand & David Asper (with live webcast)

Please join the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights on Wednesday, November 23 for a fireside chat with Raj Anand and David Asper as they discuss the effect of the change in government on Charter rights and specifically what the anticipated reinstatement of the court challenges program means for charter litigation in Canada.  

 

Moderated by the Asper Centre’s Executive Director Cheryl Milne and brief remarks from Dean Iacobucci.

Prof. Ariel Katz writes "CETA could put Canada between a rock and constitutional hard places"

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

In a commentary in the Globe and Mail, Prof. Ariel Katz analyzes the constitutional implications of a decision by the German Federal Constitutional Court about CETA, the Canada-European Union free trade agreement ("CETA could put Canada between a rock and constitutional hard places," October 25, 2016).

Read the full commentary on the Globe and Mail website, or below.

 

Asper Centre announces Janet Minor as Constitutional-Litigator-in-Residence for Fall 2016

Saturday, June 25, 2016

Janet MinorThe Faculty of Law’s David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights is pleased to announce that alumna Janet Minor, past treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada, will be the Asper Centre’s Constitutional-Litigator-in-Residence for the fall of 2016. 

Senator Murray Sinclair's Call for Senatorial and Legal Restraint Should Inspire All of Us

Trudo Lemmens
Monday, June 6, 2016

The deluge of op-eds, blogs, commentaries, media interviews and news reports about Bill C-14 on Medical Assistance in Dying has created a level of over-saturation. More careful, reflective statements are increasingly hard to find. What now dominates the debate are bold statements about the constitutionality of the Bill—University of Ottawa’s Amir Attaran apparently even inventing a new constitutional qualifier of ‘unconstitutional by the bucketfull’--and reports of difficult and emotional end-of-life situations, which Bill C-14 may indeed not necessarily solve. It is therefore perhaps no surprise that the eloquent, respectful and wise intervention in the Senate by the Honourable Murray Sinclair, former judge and former Chair of the Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission, did not receive much attention in the media.

JD student Riaz Sayani-Mulji pens "Time to ground no-fly lists" in Toronto Star

Monday, May 16, 2016

In a commentary in the Toronto Star, JD student Riaz Sayani-Mulji argues that no-fly lists violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and there is no proof they have stopped a single threat ("Time to ground no-fly lists," May 15, 2016).

Read the full commentary on the Toronto Star website, or below.

Time to ground no-fly lists

By Riaz Sayani-Mulji

May 15, 2016

Prof. Jutta Brunnée talks about "Averting Climate Change" in Edge magazine

Friday, April 22, 2016

In the Spring 2016 issue of Edge, the University of Toronto's research magazine, Prof. Jutta Brunnée is featured for her work on how to stop global climate change.

New Bill Medical Assistance in Dying Balances Competing Charter Rights; Prior Review Still Needed

Trudo Lemmens
Thursday, April 14, 2016
The Canadian government just released its bill on Medical Assistance in Dying, in response to the Carter decision. The Government wisely decided that a criminal law prohibition should remain in place, but that in exceptional circumstances, medical acts that hasten a person's death are exempted from the criminal prohibition.  The Bill is emphasizing the importance of balancing competing Charter rights: the right for some people in exceptional circumstances to obtain active medical support for a life ending intervention (justified under Carter under the right to life, liberty and security of the person) and the right of those who are vulnerable and require our protection and full support, which--as Dianne Pothier aptly demonstrates--is associated with the Right to Life and Security of the Person and the Right to Equality. The access criteria reflect an appropriate balance, which was missing from previous reports that nearly exclusively focused on 'access' and individual choice, that ignored how contextual factors contribute to vulnerability, and that ignored growing evidence of problems in open-ended access regimes.

Prof. Kent Roach co-winner of Reg Robson Award from BC Civil Liberties Association

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Prof. Kent RoachProf. Kent Roach and his co-author Craig Forcese (University of Ottawa Faculty of Law) have been awarded the Reg Robson Award by the BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) for their work on changing public opinion about Bill C-51, the "Anti-Terrorism Act."

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