Are Canadian Courts Fit For Purpose? With the Cowichan Tribes v Canada (Attorney General), 2025 BCSC 1490 (CanLII) decision, the British Columbia Supreme Court cast aside nearly a millennium of certainty regarding land ownership. It did this by severely limiting the rights inherent to fee simple title. It additionally declared invalid land titles under the…
Is it Time to Rethink Judicial Appointments? Though Canada lacks a legal tradition of transparency or of timely resolving matters on the merits (unlike in the US or many European nations), has an ill-functioning judicial system that its leading jurists acknowledge to be broken, and (with bail being the rule rather than the exception) is…
Should Canada’s Jews be Arming Themselves? Prior to October 7th, few Canadians had serious reason to fear for their personal safety in the land of Peace, Order and Good Government. While the crime rate had risen above the overall US rate, the homicide rate remained much lower and sensational mass casualty events were much more…
