Exercising Indigenous Jurisdiction Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
Category: Pandemic
Drug approvals: exclusive Health Canada jurisdiction or fair game for the provinces?
Category: Pandemic
The One vs the Many: When Public Health Conflicts with Individual Rights
Category: Pandemic
Part Two: COVID-19 & the Canadian Constitution
Category: Pandemic
Part One: COVID-19 & the Canadian Constitution
Category: Pandemic
Regulating the Covid-19 Pandemic: Forms of State Power and Accountability Challenges
Category: Pandemic
Volume 29.2 (2020)
Publication: Constitutional Forum
Category:
Forum
This special issue deals with campus free speech and was edited by professors Kate Bezanson and Alison Braley-Rattai.
Volume 24.1 (2019)
Publication: Review of Constitutional Studies/Revue d’études constitutionnelles
Category:
Review
The implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) off ers a way to re-imagine what Indigenous self-determination and reconciliation might mean in Canada and elsewhere. It makes it possible to speak of Indigenous peoples as nations within a multinational democratic federation, rather than minority populations within a state. The papers in this issue, which were delivered at a Workshop held at the University of Alberta in May 2019, explore ‘treaty federalism’ which is a re-imagining of what we understand as sovereignty and the foundation of the Canadian state.
Volume 23.2 (2018)
Publication: Review of Constitutional Studies/Revue d’études constitutionnelles
Category:
Review
“Our Time has Come”: Reconciliation in the Wake of Manitoba Metis Federation Inc. v. Canada (Attorney General); Section 16 of the Constitution Act, 1867: The Queen, the Capital, and Canadian Constitutionalism; Des Causes et des Conséque; Seven Conceptions of Federalism Guiding Canada’s Constitutional Change; Review Essay on Paul Yowell’s Constitutional Rights and Constitutional Design; Book Review – Yaniv Roznai, Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments: The Limits of Amendment Powers
Volume 29.1 (2020)
Publication: Constitutional Forum
Category:
Forum
In this issue: Seeing Double: Peace, Order, and Good Government, and the Impact of Federal Greenhouse Gas Emissions Legislation on Provincial Jurisdiction; Charter Injunctions, Public Interest Presumption, and the Tyranny of the Majority; The Conscientious Objection of Medical Practitioners to the CPSO’s “Effective Referral” Requirement; Nothing to Declare: A Response to Grégoire Webber, Eric Mendelsohn, Robert Leckey, and Léonid Sirota on the Effects of the Notwithstanding Clause
Emergency Powers and the Emergencies Act
Category: Federalism, Pandemic
* This article is an edited excerpt of “Climate Emergency vs Emergency Powers” by Michael Graham originally published on June 27, 2019. Emergency Branch: Peace, Order, and Good Government (“POGG”) The Constitution […]
Travel Restrictions in a Pandemic: What are your Charter Rights?
Category: Mobility Rights (Section 6), Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has modern Canada facing unprecedented challenges. The severity of the crisis has led governments to restrict personal liberties in ways that were unthinkable only a few weeks […]
Interview with Peter Hogg, January 31, 2018
Category: Podcasts, Interviews