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The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that the country's controversial Anti-Terrorism Act is constitutional, issuing a series of unanimous rulings that establish a definition of terrorism in the country's Criminal Code....

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JURIST Guest Columnist Nicholas Bala of Queen's University Faculty of Law says the recent ruling in British Columbia holding that Canada's criminal prohibition of polygamy is constitutionally justified despite violating the guarantee of freedom of religion is strong and should...

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JURIST Special Guest Columnist Gail Davidson, Executive Director of Lawyers Rights Watch Canada, says that the Supreme Court of Canada was simply wrong in taking the extraordinary step of denying Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr the remedy ordered by the...

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