Not Reserving Judgment Episode 12: Was the Trudeau government's "assault weapons" ban legal?
On Episode 12 of Not Reserving Judgment, we walk you through a new federal court decision that upheld the Trudeau government’s so-called "military-style assault weapons ban"; we tell you about a new study that found vaccine passports did little to increase uptake of vaccines; and we discuss whether government officials violate free speech when they block constituents on social media.
Stories and cases discussed in this week's episode:
- Justices weigh rules for when public officials can block critics on social media (SCOTUS Blog)
- Lindke v Freed transcripts (SCOTUS)
- O'Connor-Ratcliff v Garnier transcripts (SCOTUS)
- Parker v Canada (Attorney General) (Federal Court)
- Impact of a vaccine passport on first-dose SARS-CoV-2 vaccine coverage by age and area-level social determinants of health in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario: an interrupted time series analysis (CMAJ Open)
- Pam Palmater testimony to Senate committee claiming Indigenous people have right to bear arms (X.com)
- R v Hasselwander (CanLII)
- R v Montague (CanLII)
- Can We Really Inject Our Way Out of This Pandemic? (C2C Journal)
- Amir Attaran's tweet on why Holocaust education is discriminatory (X.com)
- Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC)
- Joshua Sealy-Harrington's tweet on genocide (X.com)
- Pandemic Panic: How Canadian Government Responses to Covid 19 Changed Civil Liberties Forever (Amazon.ca)
Not Reserving Judgment is a podcast about Canadian constitutional law hosted by Josh Dehaas, Joanna Baron, and Christine Van Geyn.
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