He was mowing his lawn. Two hours later he was in handcuffs, surrounded by an armoured vehicle, tactical officers and a bomb squad. No explosives were found. He was acquitted — and his twins were never returned to him. At the centre of the file is a lawyer who resigned from the Barreau du Québec in the middle of a disciplinary investigation, and whose whereabouts are described two irreconcilable ways under oath. One account is false. No body has ruled on which.
A member asks to see his association’s bank statements. The answer is no — privacy, administrative burden, not enough time. Sylvie Deslauriers, FCPA auditor and professor at UQTR since 1988, sets out what the law already says: those books are not the treasurer’s. They belong to the members.
We put five questions on access to justice to the next generation of jurists. The Association of Students in Access to Justice of the University of Ottawa answered with rare clarity: legal illiteracy as the real barrier, the forgotten regions, AI as a tool of equality. Their answers, in full.
« I took an oath to serve justice. I refuse to stay silent. » Ahead of the first Québec Summit on the Rule of Law, Me Vivan Nguyen issues a call to her colleagues — and a message to litigants: you are not alone.
Facing the Station 39 scandal, most voices denounced it publicly. Red Coalition instead filed a formal signalement with the Police Ethics Commissioner — a remedy created in 2023. Its director, Alain Babineau, explains why acting through the law beats media pressure alone.
She gave birth, then was told she would leave without her baby. A $50-million class action now targets Quebec’s twenty youth protection directors and the government over « birth alerts » — a practice the state acknowledged was discriminatory and beyond the DYP’s jurisdiction before abolishing it. A little over three months after filing, a judge was assigned.
89% of judges in the Superior Court’s pilot project want to keep using their AI assistants. The Barreau is proposing a framework for AI-assisted legal drafting. Meanwhile, citizens are discovering they can create — or understand — a demand letter in under two minutes. Watch the demonstration.
On July 1, we sent the same five questions to the leaders of Quebec’s five main parties, with the same deadline. To date, only the Quebec Liberal Party has answered. We committed to reproducing its answers in full: here they are, with both original documents available for download.
On July 6, 2026, the CDPDJ answered a request to investigate sixteen SPVM Station 39 officers on its own initiative with a single word: « premature. » Alain Babineau sees the symptom of a broader question — can the Commission still act as the watchdog the Charter intended to create?
Another announcement, another round of funding, more fine promises — two months before the Summit on the Rule of Law. But giving access to a system people no longer trust won’t fix the crisis. We treat the symptom; we avoid the cause.