Remember when ‘blame Canada’ was a joke?

Police surveillance and interference block life-saving care as the province becomes more hostile to harm reduction, our study shows.

Advocates have been calling on Ottawa to provide a safe haven for gender-diverse U.S. residents

A scholar of genocide comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza.

We write because of the catastrophic human rights and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, now into its twentieth month, which is broadly understood by international law experts and leading human rights organ...

Lawyers’ group says proposal risks affecting judicial independence, in wake of Ford ‘rant’ about judges

Lawyers’ group says proposal risks affecting judicial independence, in wake of Ford ‘rant’ about judges

Ford calls judicial independence a ‘joke,’ suggests Ontario should take over responsibility for the Criminal Code

A diverse group of legal scholars flash red warning lights about the future of America.

The number of writers jailed around the world has increased for the sixth year in a row according to the 2024 Freedom to Write Index.

Since colonial times, self-designated ‘communities’ have used expulsions to address supposed threats. It helps to explain how easy it has been for Trump to win support

Harvard’s lawsuit comes after the administration sought to force the university to comply with a list of demands by cutting billions in federal funding the school receives.

Pierre Poilievre’s tough-on-crime proposals are performative at best, and will cause greater difficulty for the prison system at worst

A new lawsuit challenges Trump’s tariffs as a blatantly illegal usurpation of legislative power.

Find out about new career opportunities at the HRLSC.

Even with Republican congressional majorities, Trump favors the flourish of the order over the hassle of lawmaking.

Groups representing Columbia University professors on Tuesday sued the Trump administration over its effort to force the university to tighten rules on campus protests and put a Middle Eastern studies department under outside oversight, among other measures, by canceling $400 million in federal funding and threatening to withhold billions more in the future.

If law firms won’t defend the rule of law, who will?

A large-scale investigation into the Indigo bookstore vandalism, involving more than 70 police officers and 10 nighttime raids, is unlikely to achieve a single criminal conviction.

Today PEN America joins The Student Press Law Center and nine other free speech and journalism organizations to release a letter condemning the detention of Rumeysa Ozturk, reportedly based on opinion...

In one of the most draconian steps to date in his campaign seeking retribution against political foes, insulation from legal accountability, and the chilling of immigrants rights' litigation and other...

If the Trump administration were truly concerned about antisemitism, it would start in its own house.

In a disappointing but unsurprising turn, the Ontario Superior Court denied an injunction to stop the Ford government from ripping out Toronto’s bike lanes before a full legal challenge can be heard i...

Much of what the U.S. president has done to curb independent media echoes the Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán’s playbook.

A letter outlining “immediate next steps” arrived less than a week after the administration said it was canceling $400 million in grants and contracts.

He successfully challenged prostitution laws before the Supreme Court of Canada in 2013, and convinced the courts to widen access to medical marijuana, leading the way to cannabis legalization