Commentary
Legal Aid Cuts: Devastating and Short-sighted
by Cheryl Milne Devastating and short-sighted. These are the words that immediately come to mind in response to last week’s announcement that the Legal Aid Ontario budget would be … Read More
Choose Your Battleground: Recapping the Beaver v Hill Panel Discussion
by Hannah Goddard-Rebstein and Arjun Gandhi On Thursday, March 21st, the Asper Centre held a panel on Indigenous rights and family law, using the case of Beaver v Hill … Read More
Trial by military: Spotlight on R v Beaudry
by Teodora Pasca Years ago, Corporal R. P. Beaudry was charged with sexual assault causing bodily harm, an offence under s 272 of the Criminal Code carrying a maximum penalty of 14 years’ … Read More
Recapping YY Chen’s Constitutional Roundtable on Citizenship and the Charter
by Michelle Huang and Jeffrey Wang On Thursday, February 28, the Asper Centre hosted Professor Y. Y. Brandon Chen for a Constitutional Roundtable titled “Toward a Substantive Understanding of Citizenship … Read More
What they don’t know will hurt them: no consent, gender identity or social media in the Ontario sex ed curriculum
By Leslie Anne St. Amour In my opinion, to call the court’s decision dismissing the case against the Ontario government in respect to the repeal and replacement of the sex … Read More