Tag Archives: Supreme Court of Canada

Quick-fire round of government failures

Posted on 2024-08-02 by CKirkby

There are too many news stories I want to spend time on, so it’s time for a quick-fire round of government failures.

(Treaty negotiations, undocumented workers, violence against women.) Continue reading →

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Racism against a Supreme Court Justice

Posted on 2024-07-05 by CKirkby

Diversity of experience on the Court can only be a threat to our system of government if the actual goal of government is to exclude people. Continue reading →

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Me and the Supreme Court

Posted on 2024-06-01 by CKirkby

I’ve been thinking about the Supreme Court a lot lately. Well, and also since I was a kid. Continue reading →

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“Woman” v. “Person with a vagina”

Posted on 2024-03-17 by CKirkby

There is a bizarre scandal out of the Supreme Court of Canada, related to the language used in the sexual assault case R. v. Kruk, 2024 SCC 7. Like, condemned by l’Assemblée nationale and various (male) commentators for contributing to the invisibilization of women levels of bizarre. Continue reading →

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