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Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Referendum? What Referendum?

A constitutional expert argues that the federal insistence on clarity has paid off

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

Donald R. Songer

Donald R. Songer is the Olin D. Johnston Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina. His book, The Transformation of the Supreme Court of Canada, was published by University of Toronto Press in 2008 and McGill-Queen’s University Press will publish Law, Ideology and Collegiality: Judicial Behaviour in the Supreme Court of Canada this fall.

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Donald R. Songer

The Nine

A lively account of the powers, good and ill, of our top judges July–August 2011
Philip Slayton’s new book, Mighty Judgment: How the Supreme Court of Canada Runs Your Life, comes at a particularly appropriate time. In the aftermath of a landmark federal election, Canada’s new majority government will probably have the opportunity to appoint five members of the Supreme Court and these five individuals could dramatically change the court’s role in Canadian…