Meet Megan Savard, the Asper Centre’s new Constitutional Litigator in Residence for Fall 2025

By Tyler Lee & Romina Hajizadeh During her term at Downtown Legal Services, a young and eager Megan Savard was called upon by an elderly man who had been accused … Read More

Encampments and the Charter Workshop: Charter Challenges, Systemic Barriers, and Indigenous Legal Perspectives

by Aurora Lawrence and Jay Wai On February 28, 2025, the Centre for Constitutional Studies at the University of Alberta and the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights co-hosted a … Read More

The City of Toronto’s Potential New Bylaw Limiting Public Demonstrations

by Rob De Luca In December 2024, Toronto’s City Council moved to require the City Manager to develop a new public demonstrations by-law. If the by-law roughly contemplated in the … Read More

Supreme Court concludes limits on third-party spending for political advertising violate the right to vote

By Taoran Li On 7 March 2025, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in Ontario (Attorney General) v. Working Families Coalition (Canada) Inc., 2025 SCC 5, where the … Read More

Kimberly Murray presents findings from Report on Missing and Disappeared Indigenous Children and Unmarked Burials in Canada

By Taoran Li On 25 February 2025, the Asper Centre welcomed Ms. Murray to present the bi-annual Morris A. Gross Memorial Lecture. From June 2022 until December 2024, Ms. Murray … Read More