Taylor v Her Majesty the Queen: The Applicant’s had “Bigger Fish to Fry”
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised a number of concerns about civil liberties and the extent to which they can be curbed to slow the spread of the virus. On one...
Tagged: constitutional validity
No Constitutional Right to Private Healthcare, rules Cambie Surgeries v BC
At the brink of the neighbouring United States presidential election where the recurring public versus private debate healthcare continues to wage on, the Canadian universal healthcare system figures in as...
The Scope of the Federal Criminal Law Power in the Reference re Genetic Non-Discrimination Act
The need to safeguard privacy has long been a mainstay of the Canadian legal system. The right to secure autonomy and control over our private information has been preserved both...
Remedying Hypothetical Charter Breaches: Lessons from R v Appulonappa
The newest member in the illustrious “class of section seven” Charter jurisprudence is R v Appulonappa, 2015 SCC 59 [Appulonappa], a recent Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) ruling on the...
