Section 33: Parliament or the legislature of a province may expressly declare in an Act…that the Act or provision thereof shall operate notwithstanding a provision included in section two or sections seven to 15 of this Charter. Ontario premier Doug Ford’s promise to invoke the
The second of two posts about the time I was a teenage prime suspect, until I slid extravagantly off the Wanted List in my own tears and sighs… Read Part One here. In any event, I now understood why the police felt compelled to question me. My shock and profound hurt were not a
A couple of years ago I started writing a memoir called Hauled to the Bar: A Life in Law and Letters, in Spite of Myself. I haven’t worked on it much, partly because of the uncomfortable memories, such as the one below, that is meant to serve as the prologue. To make for easier readin