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Magna Carta and all that! Ottawa Citizen op ed June 13, 2015

Jun

15

2015

Tweet Pleased to add my latest op-ed, written for the Ottawa Citizen. Editor Kate Heartfield created a fantastic spread on the 800th anniversary of the initial Magna Carta. She called it Magna Cartapalooza (ok, only on twitter). Writing about the purported basis for our law and democracy was…daunting. I tried to inject some realism and ...

CTV Power Play April 20, 2015

Apr

21

2015

Tweet Another week – another interview on the Mike Duffy Trial. The take-away: expecting this to be over in 41 days was “wildly ambitious”. Link.

CTV Power Play – Mike Duffy Trial Day 1

Apr

8

2015

Tweet The trial of former CPC Senator Mike Duffy began in Ottawa on April 7, 2015. Duffy is charged with 31 counts of fraud, breach of trust and bribery relating to expense claims and a $90,000 received from the Prime Minister’s former chief of staff, Nigel Wright. I break down some of the issues with ...

TVO The Agenda: Balancing Religion and Secularism March 24, 2015

Mar

25

2015

Tweet Here’s a link to my appearance on The Agenda for an episode about the place of religion, and religious accommodation, in a secular society. I was amused when Steve Paikin said “Welcome back”, given that my last appearance was in 2009. Video.

My Debate with Andrew Coyne over the Nadon Decision: January 2015

Mar

24

2015

Tweet In January, 2015 I attended the Canadian Constitution Foundation’s conference in Toronto where I participated in a debate about the Nadon decision. Fun fact: my original co-panelist was Grant Huscroft, who was subsequently appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal. So they asked journalist Andrew Coyne to step in. It was definitely a pro-Nadon ...

CTV Power Play: The Loyola High School Decision

Mar

19

2015

Tweet Very interesting decision from the Supreme Court of Canada today on religious freedom. The Court basically upheld the right of a Quebec private religious school to be exempted from aspects of a mandatory Religion and Ethics course prescribed for all schools by the Quebec government. I’ll be writing about this later, but for now ...

CBC Ottawa Morning invtu re: Quebec Hijab

Mar

6

2015

Tweet So, my Globe op ed (about that judge who refused to hear a woman because of her hijab) got a lot of attention, and I was asked to speak to it on CBC Radio. Link.