Information About Double Aspect

I return briefly to the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Taylor v Newfoundland and Labrador, 2026 SCC 5, which I summarized here and whose discussion of constitutional interpretation I criticized here. There is something about that discussion that I hadn’t noticed until now, and which bears menti … Read more »

In my last post, I summarized what the Supreme Court of Canada had to say about constitutional interpretation in Taylor v Newfoundland and Labrador, 2026 SCC 5. I suggested that the case could have been decided by a careful reading of the text, or at least the two texts, English and French, of the … Read more »

Last month, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Taylor v Newfoundland and Labrador, 2026 SCC 5, which upheld the constitutionality on a ban on travel into the province that had been imposed in the early weeks of the covid-19 pandemic. I would like to discuss this case, however belatedly, becaus … Read more »

Constitutional change is supposed to be a weighty, serious business. Even in countries without a codified and entrenched constitution, like the United Kingdom and New Zealand, where it can be introduced by ordinary legislation, that legislation, something like the UK’s Human Rights Act, 1998 can be … Read more »

The Alberta government’s demand to be involved in the appointment of judges to Alberta’s Court of King’s Bench and Court of Appeal in the name of protecting Alberta’s alleged “distinct legal traditions — and threat not to “provide … funding to support any new judicial positions in the province” if … Read more »