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Need for national dialogues to repair damage from pandemic, protests

Short of bringing in the military as aid to the civil power, Ontario's state of emergency and other enhanced legal enforcement measures are the last hope to deal with what increasingly looks like an insurrection against Canadian democracy.

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BY ERROL MENDES
February 14, 2022

Opinion | BY ERROL MENDES | February 14, 2022

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Need for national dialogues to repair damage from pandemic, protests

Short of bringing in the military as aid to the civil power, Ontario's state of emergency and other enhanced legal enforcement measures are the last hope to deal with what increasingly looks like an insurrection against Canadian democracy.

Trudeau could offer change by proposing a bold, structural overhaul of Canada’s political system

Tory charges of bias are unfair: CBC is nobody’s mouthpiece

Implement the special interlocutor’s final report on unmarked graves now for a new path forward

Syria: jihadis again

Can Canada actually defend the Arctic?

Preventing the Charter’s early death will take a joint committee, a referendum, and strong public will to protect our democracy

‘A quiet killing of the Charter’: experts debate spirit and letter of notwithstanding clause’s pre-emptive use

Beneath all the vague talk, the causes of populist chaos are clear enough

Peckford says COVID restrictions violate Charter of Rights he helped draft, but leading constitutional lawyer disagrees

Conspiracy theories and disinformation in Canadian politics amped up after ‘Freedom Convoy’

Preventing the Charter’s early death will take a joint committee, a referendum, and strong public will to protect our democracy

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‘A quiet killing of the Charter’: experts debate spirit and letter of notwithstanding clause’s pre-emptive use

‘A quiet killing of the Charter’: experts debate spirit and letter of notwithstanding clause’s pre-emptive use

Beneath all the vague talk, the causes of populist chaos are clear enough

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Peckford says COVID restrictions violate Charter of Rights he helped draft, but leading constitutional lawyer disagrees

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Need for national dialogues to repair damage from pandemic, protests

Short of bringing in the military as aid to the civil power, Ontario's state of emergency and other enhanced legal enforcement measures are the last hope to deal with what increasingly looks like an insurrection against Canadian democracy.

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