The David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights

EVENT Reminder >> The Asper Centre's #ClimateJustice working group is convening a panel discussion (via webinar) on Monday November 16th at 12h45 to discuss the Constitutionality of Canada's Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act. The panel will feature counsel for AG of Canada (Sharlene Telles-Langdon) and AG of Ontario (Joshua Hunter), as well as counsel for Ecojustice Canada (Joshua Ginsberg) and counsel for Anishinabek Nation & the United Chiefs and Councils of Mnidoo Mn...ising (Patricia Lawrence). For more INFO and to REGISTER for FREE: https://aspercentre.ca//the-constitutionality-of-canadas-/ We are looking forward!

On the BLOG today >> ICYMI, University of Toronto Faculty of Law JD Candidate and Asper Centre work-study student Julia Nowicki recaps our recent Constitutional Roundtable with Kerry Wilkins (including a link to the recording of the webinar) in "Overcoming Challenges to Implementing #UNDRIP in Canada." READ: https://aspercentre.ca/overcoming-challenges-to-implementi/

EVENT Notice >> The Asper Centre's Climate Justice student working group is convening a panel discussion (via webinar) on Monday November 16, 2020 at 12h45 to discuss the Constitutionality of Canada's Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act. For INFO & to REGISTER: https://aspercentre.ca//the-constitutionality-of-canadas-/ We are looking forward!

On the BLOG today>> JD student at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Asper Centre work-study student Annie Chan discusses the Asper Centre's intervention last month in R v Chouhan, in which the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the abolition of peremptory challenges in jury selection as constitutional. Thank you for this contribution Annie! READ: https://aspercentre.ca/r-v-chouhan-the-constitutionality-o/

Awesome job ALERT >> The National Association of Women and the Law, a not-for-profit feminist organization that actively promotes the equality rights of women in Canada through legal education, research, and law reform advocacy, is currently hiring an Executive Director for a full-time position. https://nawl.ca//NAWL-ED-job-description-November-2020-for

On the BLOG today >> U of T Faculty of Law JD student Ainslie Pierrynowski considers the relationship between the Charter and provinces’ efforts to safeguard the health of their populations during the Covid19 pandemic in "Supreme Court of Newfoundland Dismisses a Constitutional Challenge to Travel Restriction." Thank you Ainslie for this contribution! https://aspercentre.ca/supreme-court-of-newfoundland-and-l/