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The Ontario Trillium Protection Act (also known as Bill 184) of 2009 is an amendment to the Floral Emblem Act of Ontario, Canada proposed as a private member's bill by Liberal politician Jeff Leal. The Act, if approved, would prohibit the picking of trilliums in Ontario. Having not received final approval, the act remains unapproved.
Section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms establishes the right to freedom of expression, and the Supreme Court of Canada has interpreted this right in a very broad fashion. The Court has said that any act that is intended to convey a message is protected under section 2(a) but that this does not include acts that have a ...
The right to life, liberty and security of the person, and in another section, rights to fundamental justice (the Charter combines those rights in Section 7) The right to the enjoyment of property, which is not enshrined in the Charter; The right to counsel (now in Section 10 of the Charter). Section 2 of the Bill of Rights reads as follows: 2.
A number of challenges to the ward boundary bylaw were made to the Ontario Municipal Board, as provided under section 124(8) of the City of Toronto Act. None of the challenges to the bylaw, including those that advocated for a 25 ward model were successful. [c 1] [c 2] [c 3]
One of the most famous ongoing censorship controversies in Canada has been the dispute between Canada Customs and LGBT retail bookstores such as Little Sister's in Vancouver and Glad Day in Toronto. Through the 1980s and into the 1990s, Canada Customs frequently stopped material being shipped to the two stores on the grounds of "obscenity".
Printed copies of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is part of the Constitution of Canada. [18] The Charter guarantees political, mobility, and equality rights and fundamental freedoms such as freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and freedom of religion for private individuals and some organisations. [19]
The newsletter, Your Ward News, was delivered monthly to homes in Toronto before the federal government ordered Canada Post to cease distribution in 2016. Ontario Court of Justice Judge Richard Blouin disagreed with the defendants' claim that the publication was meant to be satire , noting "both men were fully aware of the unrelenting promotion ...
The Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa, west of Parliament Hill. The legal system of Canada is pluralist: its foundations lie in the English common law system (inherited from its period as a colony of the British Empire), the French civil law system (inherited from its French Empire past), [1] [2] and Indigenous law systems [3] developed by the various Indigenous Nations.