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As the Supreme Court recognized in Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v. Singh, “public safety and national security [are] the most serious concerns of government.” Combating the threat of transnational terrorism presents a particular set of challenges for democratic governments.

Many lawyers and activists contemplate alternatives for advancing social justice through law. The topic was one of the issues addressed at the OBA 8th Annual Conference on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Disinformation about the democratic process could be opening a back door to “constitutional revolution”. That was the warning sounded by Professors Lorraine E. Weinrib and Peter H. Russell at the Ontario Bar Association’s 8th Annual Charter Conference.

According to Jamie Cameron, Paul Schabas, and Delmar Doucette, coming months should provide ample fodder for scholars and practitioners in the area of free expression. All three lawyers were panellists at the OBA’s December 1st dinner program entitled “Bus Ads, Media Sources and Publication Bans”.

Crown prosecutors can rest more easily after the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Miazga v. Kvello Estate.

I look forward to similar programs being offered over the coming year. Our Charter Update will be held on September 18th and includes impressive speakers such as Justice Rothstein of the Supreme Court and important constitutional topics such as the role of the Governor General in Canada’s democracy

On June 17, 2009, lawyers involved in several recent Supreme Court search and seizure cases appeared at the Ontario Bar Association Conference Centre to deliver their thoughts on these key decisions to an assembly of interested and informed gatherers.

The Supreme Court of Canada recently closed a “loophole” created by the Ontario Court of Appeal’s 1993 decision in Prete v. Ontario when it held in Ravndahl v. Saskatchewan that statutory limitation periods apply to constitutional claims for personal monetary relief.

The wage restraint and pay equity laws passed as part of the federal government’s most recent budget are coming under fire from several public sector unions. The statutes are the subject of a number of Charter challenges filed by unions...