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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 8, 2024 11:40 am Updated August 8, 2024 3:47 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canada’s top court has closed the door on Jordan Peterson’s legal fight against an order that he enter a remedial coaching program. …
Read More »Crown must settle with First Nations for breaching Robinson treaties: Supreme Court
The Crown dishonourably breached the Robinson Treaties and must negotiate a settlement with First Nations within six months, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. The two treaties were signed in 1850, ceding a large swath of land in Ontario to the Crown in return for annual payments to the Anishinaabe of …
Read More »After Quebec complains, Supreme Court justice recuses himself from Bill 21 challenge
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted July 10, 2024 11:15 am Updated July 10, 2024 11:16 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Supreme Court of Canada justice says he will not participate in deliberations about whether the high court will hear an appeal …
Read More »Quebec ‘secret trial’: Supreme Court partly allows appeal by media
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted June 7, 2024 10:28 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Supreme Court of Canada has partly upheld an appeal from the media over a so-called secret trial in Quebec involving a police informant. The high court ruled …
Read More »Premier Doug Ford’s 2018 mandate letter promised to hold cabinet ministers accountable
After Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives were swept into office in June 2018, ending 15 years of Liberal rule, newly minted Premier Doug Ford provided his cabinet ministers a new north star. He would run a government defined by ethics, accountability and a province that was strictly “for the people.” In a …
Read More »Highest court refuses to hear appeal from B.C. churches opposed to COVID-19 ruling
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 10, 2023 11:00 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear an appeal from three British Columbia churches that argued their constitutional rights were violated when provincial restrictions banned indoor religious services at …
Read More »Ontario tells court of ‘unwarranted incursion’ into cabinet in mandate letters case
OTTAWA — The Ontario government is telling the country’s top court the disclosure of ministerial mandate letters would reveal the substance of deliberations of the premier and his cabinet — breaching a key tenet of Westminster-style government. In a written brief filed with the Supreme Court of Canada, the Ontario …
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