Time for Boldness on Senate Reform Rapporteur & Closing Remarks
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Religious Diversity, Education and the “Crisis” in State Neutrality
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Religious Diversity, Education and the “Crisis” in State Neutrality (Q & A)
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Fear the Fearon? Searches of digital devices incident to arrest
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Professor George Williams, AO “Anti-Terrorism Laws and Human Rights”
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Pamela Palmater “Section 35’s Empty Shell of Constitutional Promise” Pt. 1
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The 25th Annual McDonald Lecture hosted by the Centre for Constitutional Studies features Professor Pamela Palmater. In this lecture Professor Palmater argues that the federal government has failed to meet its obligations under the treaties signed with Canada’s aboriginal peoples. Professor Palmater is head of the Centre for Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University and was the runner up in the Assembly of First Nations leadership elections for national chief in 2012.
Jeff Rowes “Litigating Liberty: Constitutional Theory in Action” Pt. 1
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Jeff Rowes “Litigating Liberty: Constitutional Theory in Action” Pt. 2 (Q & A)
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The Fight for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Equality in Canada – Pt. 4 (Q & A)
Category: Equality Rights (Section 15), Videos, Speakers and Panels
Question and answer with Delwin Vriend, Barbara Findlay QC, and Dr. Kris Wells.
The Fight for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Equality in Canada – Pt. 3
Category: Equality Rights (Section 15), Videos, Speakers and Panels
Dr. Kris Wells of the Institute for Minority Studies and Services speaks about sexual minority rights in education.
The Fight for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Equality in Canada – Pt. 2
Category: Equality Rights (Section 15), Videos, Speakers and Panels
Barbara findlay QC discusses the hard road to equality in Canada.
The Fight for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Equality in Canada – Pt. 1
Category: Equality Rights (Section 15), Videos, Speakers and Panels
Delwin Vriend reflects on his landmark case (Vriend v Alberta) which resulted in inclusion of sexual orientation as a protected ground in Alberta’s Human Rights Legislation.
Pamela Palmater “Section 35’s Empty Shell of Constitutional Promise” Pt. 2 (Q & A)
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Question and answer with Professor Pamela Palmater.
Constitutional Desuetude Pt. 2 (Q & A)
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Question and answer with Richard Albert on Constitutional Desuetude.
Constitutional Desuetude Pt. 1
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Scholars have demonstrated that written constitutions may be amended informally, for instance by judicial interpretation, statutory law, or executive action. But it has yet to be fully appreciated that written constitutions may also be informally amended when a constitutional provision falls into desuetude*. Whereas other forms of informal amendment leave the constitutional text entrenched, unchanged, and politically valid, constitutional desuetude leaves the text entrenched and unchanged but renders it politically invalid.
In this Lecture, Professor Albert will illustrate and theorize the phenomenon of constitutional desuetude with reference to the Canadian and United States Constitutions.
*Desuetude: The condition or state into which anything falls when one ceases to use or practice it; a state of disuse.