human rights law

November 1, 2021

It Ends Well

Thoughts on the Supreme Court’s narrow but seemingly decisive rejection of a right not to be offended Continue reading

Administrative Law, Constitutional law

discrimination, freedom of expression, human rights law, jurisdiction, Québec, Supreme Court of Canada
June 13, 2019

It’s Happening Here Too

Canadians need to heed David Bernstein’s warning about administrative decision-makers’ disregard of constitutional rights Continue reading

Administrative Law, Constitutional law

administrative state, Charter, Doré, equality, human rights law, statutory interpretation
May 26, 2016

Pronoun Police?

Does human rights legislation let government police people’s use of pronouns? I have already written here about the way the federal government’ recently introduced Bill C-16 will restrict freedom of expression by adding “gender identity or expression” to the long and growing list of “identifiable grounds” of criminalized hate speech. In that post, I did Continue reading

Constitutional law

freedom of expression, human rights law, pronouns