This week, The Globe and Mail responded to the Supreme Court’s decision in Alberta v. Hutterian Brethren of Wilson Colony, 2009 SCC 37, critically. (The decision is summarized and discussed by TheCourt.ca Senior Contributing Editor Daniel Del Gobbo here.) The Globe was critical of the Supreme Court’s decision requiring the Hutterites to participate in Alberta’s [...]

In Multani v. Commission scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys, the Supreme Court of Canada held, by a score of 8-0, that a school board had erred in banning an orthodox Sikh student from wearing a kirpan, a ceremonial metal dagger, to school. While the media focused on the competing values at stake (pitting freedom of religion against school [...]