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We have seen far too much of “judgment first, sentence after” to paraphrase “Alice in Wonderland” in our judicial and public culture of late. Without evidence - or even without

Canada’s Liberal government secretly “reinterpreted”—in reality rewrote—the Emergencies Act to arrogate authoritarian powers. It did so on the basis of a secret legal opinion that even the Clerk of the Privy Council cautioned was “vulnerable to challenge.”

The inquiry tasked with looking into the federal government's invocation of the Emergencies Act will release its report today — a document that should shed new light on one of the Trudeau government's most controversial and consequential decisions.

Justice Paul Rouleau, who led the Public Order Emergency Commission, speaks to counsel during a witnesses' testimony, Monday, Oct. 31, 2022, in Ottawa.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sat down with CTV National News Chief News Anchor and Senior Editor Omar Sachedina for a year-end interview to reflect on the political shifts experienced in 2022, and to contemplate the challenges ahead in 2023. Here is a full transcript of the interview.

The federal government has failed to make its case that using the extraordinary powers in the Emergencies Act was justified.

News Analysis The public hearings phase of the Emergencies Act inquiry came to a close on Nov. 25 ...

Canadas top bureaucrat testified at the Emergencies Act inquiry on Friday, trying to change the meaning of the law to fit her actions.

Independent panel will hear from dozens of witnesses on how Canada dispersed ‘Freedom Convoy’ blockades, occupation.

In the 1960s and 70s, Joyce Wieland painted, sculpted and stitched the Canadian flag and our sense of national identity. Her art called on the need to preserve its distinctness from the United States. Now, a quarter century after her death, Canadians are wrestling with questions of who and what we are as a nation.