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• Respect Women: A Public Statement about women, the niqab, and liberty in Canada

  By Pearl Eliadis on October 17, 2015

  More than 500 women have signed the public statement below to protest the politics of division being practised in Canada today. I am very proud to stand in such distinguished company. The original statement and the 500+ and counting signatories… Read More ›

• The Harper Record 2008-2015 “Dismantling democracy: Stifling debate and dissent for civil society and Indigenous peoples” #elxn42 #cdnpoli

  By Pearl Eliadis on October 5, 2015

  Since 2010, the national coalition Voices-Voix has published more than 110 case studies on the dismantling of democratic rights and institutions, and the narrowing space for debate and dissent in this country. All the case studies are available on its… Read More ›

• Too many human rights? 

  By Pearl Eliadis on July 15, 2015

  A Commentary on “Rights Inflation and the Crisis of Canada’s Rights Culture”   Pearl Eliadis The language of human rights is deployed to defend or attack all sorts of things, but “human rights” are grounded in a recognized catalogue of… Read More ›

• Transrights in Quebec and Canada: Recent Developments

  By Pearl Eliadis on June 13, 2015

  Like about half the provinces in Canada, Quebec used to oblige transgendered people (“trans people”) to undergo sexual reassignment surgery before permitting a change to their civil status (i.e. birth certificate).[1] In December 2013, the government Quebec amended the Civil… Read More ›

• Prayers at municipal council discriminatory: Analysis of the Supreme Court’s decision 

  By Pearl Eliadis on April 15, 2015

  

  April 15,  2015:  For years now, municipal leaders in Quebec have started council meetings with prayers, arguing that although Quebec is a secular society, the religious trappings of crucifixes, sacred heart statues and flashing red votive lights are merely the traditional… Read More ›

• Hijab-wearing Quebecer denied day in court

  By Pearl Eliadis on February 20, 2015

  Updated October 6 2016 In October 2015, Rania El-Alloul,a hijabi woman, came before Madame Justice Eliana Marengo of the provincial court to ask the court to return her seized vehicle.  The judge asked El-Alloul why she was wearing a scarf and, after a… Read More ›

• Rules for Schools: The Legality of Strip Searches

  By Pearl Eliadis on February 19, 2015

  There has been a good deal of interest lately in the legal basis for schools to search students. There is also a good deal of discussion about what the Supreme Court of Canada has said, and what it might mean… Read More ›

• @DavidLametti Ask questions, get audited (or worse) @CanRevAgency @liberal_party

  By Pearl Eliadis on February 17, 2015

  Republished from Voices-Voix  Ask questions, get audited: the case of PEN Canada Dear Voices-Voix supporters, What happens when a champion of free expression asks questions of the Canada Revenue Agency’s audits of charities? Especially if you voice concerns over the apparent… Read More ›

• Euthanasia, Suicide or Just Death? The New Rules In Canada

  By Pearl Eliadis on February 16, 2015

  On February 6, 2015 a unanimous Supreme Court of Canada rendered its decision in a much-awaited case dealing with physician-assisted death called Carter v. Canada. The Court declared void the criminal prohibition in s. 241 (b) of the Criminal Code… Read More ›

• Executive Override of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

  By Pearl Eliadis on December 10, 2014

  This blog post was contributed for Human Rights Day, observed on December 10. This text is drawn from the introductory pages of Speaking Out on Human Rights: Debating Canada’s Human Rights System (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014).  There is a broad consensus… Read More ›

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