Citizenship requirement, swimming test, academic selection, Bill 21: Alain Babineau examines the interlocking obstacles keeping Quebec’s police the most homogeneous in Canada. Part 1 of 2.
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They Came Looking for Me — And I Wanted You to Know
Three invitations in fifteen days to speak on access to justice, in universities and at colloquiums. And a second piece of news: Justice-Quebec.ca becomes EnDroit.ca. The name changes — the mission does not.
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Tamara Thermitus, Broken by a Botched Investigation: Quebec Superior Court Quashes Ombudsman’s Report Nearly Eight Years Later
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Quebec Ministry of Justice Cease-and-Desist Against EnDroit.ca
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Intimate Partner Violence: Supreme Court of Canada Recognizes a New Tort to Better Protect Victims
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