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At around the time of the centennial of Canadian Confederation in 1967, Liberal Attorney General Pierre Trudeau appointed law professor Barry Strayer to research enshrining rights into the Constitution. Canada already had a Canadian Bill of Rights passed in 1960. This Bill of Rights did not have the force of the Charter and was criticised as ...
Obesity in Canada is a growing health concern, which is "expected to surpass [a] smoking as the leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality" and represents a burden [b] of Can$3.96 (US$3.04/€2.75) billion on the Canadian economy each year."
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In Canada (Attorney General) v. Federation of Law Societies of Canada, 2015 SCC 7, it was held as a principle of fundamental justice that the state cannot impose obligations on lawyers that undermine their duty of commitment to clients. The case arose in the content of federal money laundering legislation which required lawyers to retain ...
R. v. Jordan [2] was a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada which rejected the framework traditionally used to determine whether an accused was tried within a reasonable time under section 11(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and replaced it with a presumptive ceiling of 18 months between the charges and the trial in a provincial court without preliminary inquiry, or 30 ...
[60] [61] The thiazolidinediones, on the other hand, may cause weight gain, but decrease central obesity. [62] Diabetics also achieve modest weight loss with fluoxetine and orlistat over 12–57 weeks. [63] Rimonabant (Acomplia), another drug, had been withdrawn from the market. It worked via a specific blockade of the endocannabinoid system.
Reenactment of the Code, with modernization of provisions. It abolished all common law offences (other than for contempt of court), as well as any offences created by the British Parliament or in effect under an Act or ordinance in any place before becoming part of Canada. [18] Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968–69, S.C. 1968–69, c. 38 [19]
This prohibits criminal liability from arising from an ex post facto law. In the 1991 case of R. v. Furtney, the Supreme Court explained that this section does not prescribe the details of how the existence of the offence is to be made known, especially given its reference to international law, which inherently defies domestic codification. [6]