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Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Looking forward to participating in the 2025 Courts & Politics Research Group annual spring workshop today with colleagues from political science. Kate Puddister and Emmett Macfarlane have done a terrific job putting the program together.

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Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

In 2022, the @uodroitpublaw.bsky.social and the CIAJ held a conference to mark the retirement of Justice Rosalie Abella from the Supreme Court of Canada. I am delighted that an open-access collection flowing from the conference has now been published! utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781552216712

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Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

On June 2, we will be holding a symposium at the UK Parliament on the unwritten rules, norms and principles that make constitutional government work. To join us, please contact @paolosandro.bsky.social at the email address below. Looking forward to seeing many colleagues there!

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Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Excited to be in Taipei this week for Academia Sinica’s 2025 Comparative Constitutional Law Roundtable, hosted by Professor Oran Doyle. Interesting papers on comparative method, judicial agenda setting and constitutional amendment, among others.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I spoke with UN Secretary-General António Guterres today. In this time of rising conflict, Canada is ready to lead. We will build coalitions, defend democracy, and stand up for our values on the world stage. As others step back from global leadership, Canada is stepping up.

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Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Congratulations to @yybrandonc.bsky.social for this work in the SCC in the Kanyinda case!

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Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Bravo to our brilliant students for putting together this podcast on the prorogation decision, and to Mallory Dunlop, the student team member who worked with us on our intervention in MacKinnon, for her stellar commentary on the case in this podcast.

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Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I hope it’s the sign of more to come!

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Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Eddie, this is great! 🤩 Thanks for sharing it.

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Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

INSCRIPTION MAINTENANT OUVERTE! Le @uodroitpublaw.bsky.social, @umontreal.ca et @schulichlaw.bsky.social tiendra une conférence académique pour marquer le 150e anniversaire de la Cour suprême du Canada. Informations sur la conférence et les modalités d'inscription ici: lnkd.in/esKJMbqR

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Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! On June 10-12, 2025, the @uodroitpublaw.bsky.social, the @umontreal.ca and @schulichlaw.bsky.social will hold an academic conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the Supreme Court of Canada. Conference and registration details here: lnkd.in/esKJMbqR. Join us!

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mark d jarvis @markdjarvis.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

As we kick off an election in Canada this morning, for those concerned w/ the potential for undue electoral interference in this election — and we all shld be — it is worth taking a minute and familiarizing yourself w/ the Critical Election Incident Public Protocol. www.canada.ca/en/democrati...

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Critical Election Incident Public Protocol - Canada.ca

The Critical Election Incident Public Protocol (the Protocol) lays out a simple, clear and impartial process by which Canadians should be notified of a threat to the integrity of the 2019 General Elec...

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Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Yes. We need to work to keep it this way.

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mark d jarvis @markdjarvis.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

It’s no small thing that Canadian democracy stands strong (even if there is still room for improvement) at a time when democracy is under threat and in decline worldwide.

An infographic depicting the results of EIU’s 2024 Democracy Index, with the annual index registering a decline in its total score from 5.23 in 2023 to 5.17 (on a 0-10 scale).

The overall global Democracy Index score has fallen from 5.52 in 2006 to an historic low of 5.17 in 2024, when 130 countries of the total 167 covered by the index either registered a decline in their score or made no improvement.
More than one-third (39.2%) of the world population live under authoritarian rule. Sixty countries are now classified as “authoritarian regimes”, an increase of one compared with the 2023 index, and an increase of eight from a decade ago in 2014.

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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 22/03/2025

So richly deserved - way to go @jcyliew.bsky.social !!

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Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

New Substack on the recent John Howard decision macdonnell.substack.com/p/securing-t...

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Canadian Bar Association @cba-news.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The Canadian Bar Association welcomes the appointment of The Honourable Gary Anandasangaree as Minister of Justice and Attorney General. We look forward to working with him and his cabinet colleagues: bit.ly/4iMa8Zd

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Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Looks like it’s 11/23, so I guess that’s pretty much equal.

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Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Gary Anandasangaree is Canada’s New Minister of Justice and Attorney General. He is also Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern affairs (!)

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Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

By the looks of it Carney has resiled from Trudeau’s practice of having a gender equal cabinet?

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Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

SCC majority concludes that the use of the balance of probabilities standard in prison disciplinary proceedings violates Charter ss 11(d) and 7 - presumption of innocence. Important decision for prison law with some stare decisis thrown in for good measure. decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-...

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John Howard Society of Saskatchewan v. Saskatchewan (Attorney General) - SCC Cases

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Emily Kidd White @emilykiddwhite.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Please join @sonialawprof.bsky.social, Benjamin Berger, and myself on April 4 at our 28th Annual Osgoode Constitutional Cases Conference. It's an important time to be thinking about the hopes and the limits of Canadian Constitutional Law. Please share. Hybrid format: www.yorku.ca/osgoode/conc...

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Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

New Substack: Wondering How Government Transitions Work? Read These Documents lnkd.in/eN7-tQEU

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Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

My preliminary thoughts on the Federal Court's decision in MacKinnon: lnkd.in/ehsVzfUv. The Chief Justice has opened the door to a limited form of judicial review of prorogation, but politics and convention will largely continue to govern the Prime Minister's advice on prorogation.

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Leonid Sirota @doubleaspect.blog · 07/03/2025

New post: my thoughts on the Federal Court of Canada dismissing the challenge to the prorogation of Parliament ― the right outcome, a flawed decision, but rather better than it might have been.

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The Federal Court dismisses the challenge to the prorogation of Parliament

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Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

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Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The Federal Court has dismissed the application in MacKinnon challenging the Jan 2025 prorogation of Parliament. Decision here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/m95bv.... Analysis to follow!

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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

“What he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that'll make it easier to annex us." This is the most extraordinary statement by a Canadian prime minister in the history of this country. The Trump administration is at war with Canada.

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Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The @uodroitpublaw.bsky.social mid-term newsletter is now live! Lots of good stuff in there, including information about a major conference on academic freedom that Co-Director Sarah Berger Richardson is leading this month: mailchi.mp/b36e6a9811de...

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PLC Winter 2025 Midterm Newsletter | Infolettre du CDP de mi-session hiver 2025

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Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

and how that work has shaped our public policy research and advocacy. Please join us! Register here: lnkd.in/eV7w4KpW 2/2

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