In 1953, Barry Strayer, a University of Saskatchewan law student, was in London on his way to a student seminar in India. He witnessed Queen Elizabeth’s coronation and marvelled at its power and pageantry, reflecting not just royalty but a vast and diverse empire—an empire crumbling yet still grand. Nearly 30 years later, on a wet and dismal…
John D. Whyte
John D. Whyte is a professor of law emeritus at Queen’s University and is a policy fellow at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School at the University of Regina. He was Saskatchewan’s director of constitutional law from 1979 to 1982.
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John D. Whyte
Copping to It
In their treatment of First Nations, do the police reflect their own culture or broader Canadian social values? July–August 2012
Pindar wrote that “human excellence grows like a vine tree.” His poetic project was to praise excellence, to trace its source in noble and enriching contexts and in good nurturing and to locate responsibility for it in society’s confirming associations. Our current instinct is not to place policing in this realm of lofty aspiration. Yet that is where it…