Opinion: As the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms turns 36, Canada’s Justice Minister says there’s plenty of work still to do—especially on Indigenous rights
Tag Archives: Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Canada’s Charter at 35: Watch a Maclean’s and Hot Docs fireside chat
Watch a replay of John Geddes’s on-stage interview with former Supreme Court justice Ian Binnie on the legacy of Canada’s Charter
A legendary former Supreme Court judge talks about our fundamental freedoms
Join Maclean’s for a Hot Docs Q&A with Ian Binnie to explore our Charter in a unique event, live in Toronto or on macleans.ca on Apr. 29
Stephen Harper’s veiled threat
A sweeping Supreme Court declaration on the niqab suggests the federal government may be in the wrong
Occupy protests & the Falun Gong precedent
Can tents be considered speech?
The Boissoin case: freedom gains a moral victory
So how stands freedom of the press in Alberta after Thursday’s Queen’s Bench decision tossing out the Boissoin human-rights panel ruling [PDF]? Justice E.C. Wilson’s reasons establish two big things, pending some higher-level judicial review of Alberta’s human-rights regime: