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The highest court in the country heard arguments Tuesday on the constitutionality of a controversial section of the Criminal Code which says self-induced intoxication cannot be used as a defence.

Canada's highest court released its reasons today for a split decision that upheld as constitutional a law introduced by the federal government to diversify juries.

What if the Supreme Court of Canada decided that Constitutionally protected Aboriginal rights extend to Indigenous people outside of Canada? We will now find…

iPolitics By Leslie MacKinnon. Published on Apr 23, 2021 12:32pm The Supreme Court of Canada building, located in downtown Ottawa. Jan. 3, 2020. Jolson Lim/iPolitics Richard Lee Desautel, an American citizen who has never lived in Canada, who shot an elk near Castlegar, B.C., has an Indigenous right to hunt in Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday in a 7-2 decision. His case marks the first time the top court considered the meaning of “Aboriginal peoples of Canada” as ...

Experts Weigh In on Supreme Court Carbon Tax Ruling The matter of carbon taxes and whether Ottawa retained ultimate authority to impose them on recalcitrant provinces under the auspices of fighting climate change finally had its day in Canada’s highest court, and the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act was deemed constitutionally sound. Proponents of the federal policy lauded the 6–3 split decision, but University of Saskatchewan professor Dwight Newman, the Canada research chair in indige...

Hardly anyone in the UK had heard of Covid 19 when a new year dawned on January 1, 2020. But just the day before, on December 31, 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission in Wuhan City, Hubei province, China, reported a cluster of pneumonia cases with a common reported link to Wuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, a wholesale fish and live animal market. By January 20, there were reports of confirmed cases from three countries outside China: Thailand, Japan and South Korea. These ...

The Globe and Mail Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer LAURA LEYSHON/The Globe and Mail The obligation to show good faith in the performance of a contract stops short of harming one’s own interests, the Supreme Court has ruled. The ruling came in a dispute between a waste management...