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Walking the Line: The Politics of Federalism and Environmental Change

This short paper looks at the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act decision through a wider and more critical jurisprudential lens. In so doing, I demonstrate that the courts are no less political ... , one of the most pressing concerns on the contemporary political agenda is how to deal with the many challenges and serious ramifications of climate change. A major part of that is about what to do about

“Silly Anecdotes”: From White Baselines to White Juries in R. v. Chouhan

This paper explains how the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in R. v. Chouhan concerning jury impartiality is an illustrative example of “baselines”, or how implicit political positions held by ... expectations are reasonable?5 In my view, shifting those baselines froimmplicit to explicit enables a much better appreciation for the unavoidably political character of legal interpretation that can be obscured

Data as Relation: Ontological Trouble in the Data-Driven Public Administration

This paper examines how the intense focus on data in political digitalization strategies takes effect in practice in a Danish municipality. Building on an ethnographic study of data-driven management ... is uncertainty as to what data are and can be taken to mean. While in political discourse and strategies, data are considered as a resource for collaboration across organizational units as well as for

“’Tis a rock—a crag—a cape? A cape? say rather a peninsula!” The SupremeCourt of Canada’s Revisitation of the National Concern Doctrine

the POGG’s National Concern Test” (2021) 55:1 Revue Juridique Thémis 103-135. 43 Peter Rinderle, “The Political Philosophy of European Subsidiarity” in Günter Walzenbach & Ralf Alleweld, edsV.,arieties ... national concern for fear of morphing vast social, political and economic questions into new permanent and exclusive heads of federal jurisdiction. In R. v. Crown Zellerbach, Le Dain J. had also concluded

The Personal is the Political: Internet Filtering and Counter Appropriation in the Islamic Republic of Iran

even more important when preparing to leave the country or to articulate their political dissatisfaction, specifically at moments of political unrest. We discuss and develop the concept of ‘counter ... important country in the region of Middle East and Northern Africa. However, it is distinct from the other countries in the region due to its historical, political and cultural development. The Islamic

The Right to Vote and Freedom of Expression in Political Process Cases Under the Charter

The Supreme Court of Canada’s political process cases cover a wide array of issues, including the right to vote, electoral redistricting, campaign finance and the regulation of political parties ... /iss1/5 Yasmin Dawood* * Canada Research Chair in Democracy, Constitutionalism, and Electoral Law, and Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

Judging Youth Time

whether a welfare-oriented philosophy should be the exclusive guiding principle in society’s response to juvenile offending. In true Canadian political fashion, then Minister of Justice Lucien Cardin struck ... and political considerations specific to section 15, particularly in the context of young people, inevitably formed part of the backgroun11d.Slippery slope concerns about constitutionalizing appellate

Does the Supreme Court of Canada Give a “Freak” About Disability Dignity?: TheInclusion Fallacy 25 Years After Eldridge

Philosophy, Politics, Policy and Law(Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2006), a seminal Canadian treatise on critical disability theory in law. equality rights doctrine and discuss the ... , but rather is the byproduct of a collection of disadvantages manufactured by social norms and regulations, policies and practices and economic and political ac9toErss.ential to the social model is the

Who Cares About Data? Ambivalence, Translation, and Attentiveness in Asylum Casework

. Previous studies have shown how care work eludes complex bureaucratic systems shaped by data, digitalization, and a restrictive political agenda. This research aims to understand how asylum stakeholders ... both the displaced individuals applying for asylum and the political system. In an asylum decision-making context, where data act to reinforce vulnerable people’s marginality and where data are used to

A Professional Comedian’s Fundamental Right to Publicly Bully a Child Becauseof His Disability? Scrutinizing Ward v. Quebec Human Rights CommissionThrough a Disability Lens

distinction, exclusion or preference based on race, colour, sex, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, sexual orientation, civil status, age except as provided by law, religion, political convictions ... ,isability Rights and Wrongs Revisited, 2d ed. (Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxon: Routledge, 2013), especially at 12-21; D. Pothier, D. Devlin & R. Devlin, Critical Disability Theory: Essays in Philosophy, Politics

Insulating the Church: Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church of Canada St. MaryCathedral v. Aga and the Suppression of Public Law in the Construction ofReligious Communities

Canada Human Rights Trust, the British Columbia Humanist Association, the Association for Reformed Political Action (“ARPA”) Canada, the Canadian Center for Christian Charities, the Evangelical Fellowship ... A group of interveners, namely the Association for Reformed Political Action Canada (“ARPA”), Canadian Center for Christian Charities, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada and the Catholic Civil

Representative Participation in a Large-Scale Health IT Project

the organizational structure of democracies as the basis for two analogies, (I) participants-as-political-representatives and (II) participants-as-technocrats. The observed decline in interaction ... Participation, as understood in PD, is a notion with strong political connotations. In comparison with, for example, UCD, where the involvement of users is primarily considered a means to ensure usable design

Political Litigation and the Role of the Court

is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works Citation Information http://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/sclr/vol34/iss1/3 - Conference Article 3 Political

Educational Participatory Design in the Crossroads of Histories and Practices – Aiming for Digital Transformation in Language Pedagogy

Kyng, 1991; Schuler and Namioka, 1993) . In the course of time, political emphasis has somewhat decreased and fostering the participation of the skilled user in the design process has moved to the ... process (e.g., Bjerknes and Bratteteig, 1995; Greenbaum and Kyng, 1991; Schuler and Namioka, 1993) . Recently, the political interests in PD have been revitalized: there is an increasing interest in

The Dark Side of Recruitment in Crowdsourcing: Ethics and Transparency in Micro-Task Marketplaces

Performance in Social Science Experiments Using Crowdsourced Online Samples . Journal of Experimental Political Science , vol. 5 , no. 3 , Winter 2018 , pp. 217 - 229 Archambault , Daniel; Helen Purchase; and ... Interplay of Morality and Methodology in Crowdsourced Survey Research . Review of Philosophy and Psychology 9 ( 2 ): 363 - 379 Heer , Jeffrey; and Michael Bostock ( 2010 ). Crowdsourcing Graphical Perception

Chief Justice McLachlin and the Division of Powers

only deepens one’s admiration for her many important contributions to Canadian law. In that spirit, these notes provide a few comments on Chief Justice McLachlin’s judicial philosophy and her ... federalism jurisprudence fairly reflects her self-described judicial philosophy as being scrupulously non-partisan and impartial. I will further suggest that her contributions to the doctrines of legal

Climate Change Class Actions in Canada

“reluctantly concluded that the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large”. ... made to the political branches or to the electorate at la6rge”. The majority decision was rife with ironies and pyrrhic victories. The panel agreed that the federal government had increased carbon

EquiP: A Method to Co-Design for Cooperation

practices and concern about political issues have promoted the increasing involvement of patients in hospitals and ill people in general at home, in their communities, and many digital solutions that comply ... negotiate how to achieve the goals of a patient who is more involved and aware of their own rehabilitation, thereby promoting a positive outcome for the rehabilitation. Building on Sunnaas’ philosophy of

Organizing Safe Spaces: #MeToo Activism in Sweden

Networked online environments can effectively support political activism. In Sweden, the #metoo movement resulted in over 100,000 people participating in activities challenging sexual harassment and ... questions. Still, the Swedish #metoo movement succeeded in uniting large groups of people around the issue. A useful term for describing this is Spivak’s (1988)strategic essentialism, denoting a political