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127 relations: Academic tenure, Administrator of the Government, Adrienne Clarkson, Alberta, Alberta Law Review, Andrew Cheung, Antonio Lamer, Ateneo de Manila University, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Laws, Balmoral Hall School, Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Brian Mulroney, Bridgewater State University, British Columbia, British Columbia Court of Appeal, Brock University, Canadian Judicial Council, Canadian order of precedence, Cape Breton University, Cardiac pacemaker, Carleton University, Carter v Canada (AG), Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Chief Justice of Canada, Christian fundamentalism, Civil Marriage Act, Common law, Concordia University, Court of Final Appeal (Hong Kong), Cultural genocide, Dalhousie University, David Johnston, Deputy of the Governor General of Canada, Doctor of Civil Law, Doctor of humane letters, Doctor of Law, Elizabeth II, Euthanasia in Canada, George Furey, Global Centre for Pluralism, Gordon Gibson, Government of Canada, Governor General of Canada, Hong Kong, Honorary degree, Institute of Parliamentary and Political Law, International Commission of Jurists, Jean Chrétien, Jeanne Sauvé, ..., Julie Payette, Justin Trudeau, Ken Coates (historian), Lakehead University, Law Society of Alberta, Law Society of Ontario, Legion of Honour, Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Lethbridge College, List of Supreme Court of Canada cases (McLachlin Court), Louis LeBel, Lysiane Gagnon, Maclean's, Marc Nadon, Marriage, Massey College, Toronto, Master of Arts, McGill University, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Michaëlle Jean, Mount Saint Vincent University, Office of the Prime Minister (Canada), Omar Khadr, Order of Canada, Order of Saint John (chartered 1888), Paul Martin, Pentecostalism, Peter MacKay, Philosophy, Pincher Creek, Prime Minister of Canada, Puisne judge, Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Queen's University, Queen's University Belfast, R v Keegstra, R v Seaboyer, R v Sharpe, R v Zundel, Rape shield law, Richard Wagner (judge), Rodriguez v British Columbia (AG), Royal assent, Ryerson University, Same-sex marriage in Canada, Sheilah Martin, Simon & Schuster, Simon Fraser University, Speaker of the Senate of Canada, Stephen Harper, Supreme Court of British Columbia, Supreme Court of Canada, Taliban, The Globe and Mail, The Right Honourable, Toronto Star, Université de Montréal, University of Alberta, University of British Columbia, University of Calgary, University of Edinburgh, University of Lethbridge, University of Maine at Fort Kent, University of Manitoba, University of Ottawa, University of Prince Edward Island, University of Toronto, University of Victoria, University of Western Ontario, University of Windsor, Vancouver, William Johnstone Ritchie, William McIntyre (judge), York University, 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal. Expand index (77 more) »
Academic tenure
A tenured appointment is an indefinite academic appointment that can be terminated only for cause or under extraordinary circumstances, such as financial exigency or program discontinuation.
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Administrator of the Government
An Administrator (Administrator of the Government, Officer Administering the Government) in the constitutional practice of some countries in the Commonwealth is a person who fulfils a role similar to that of a Governor or a Governor-General.
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Adrienne Clarkson
Adrienne Louise Clarkson (née Poy, February 10, 1939) is a Hong Kong-born Canadian journalist and stateswoman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 26th since Canadian Confederation.
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Alberta
Alberta is a western province of Canada.
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Alberta Law Review
The Alberta Law Review is a peer-reviewed law review or legal journal, published quarterly by the Alberta Law Review Society.
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Andrew Cheung
The Honourable Mr Justice Andrew Cheung Kui-nung CJHC (born 24 September 1961) is a Hong Kong judge, who is the 4th and current Chief Judge of the High Court, and serves also as the President of the Court of Appeal.
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Antonio Lamer
Joseph Antonio Charles Lamer, (July 8, 1933 – November 24, 2007) was a Canadian lawyer, jurist and the 16th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
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Ateneo de Manila University
The Ateneo de Manila University (Filipino: Pamantasang Ateneo de Manila; Spanish: Universidad Ateneo de Manila) is a private research university in Quezon City, Philippines.
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Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB, from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, sciences, or both.
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Bachelor of Laws
The Bachelor of Laws (Legum Baccalaureus; LL.B. or B.L.) is an undergraduate degree in law (or a first professional degree in law, depending on jurisdiction) originating in England and offered in Japan and most common law jurisdictionsexcept the United States and Canadaas the degree which allows a person to become a lawyer.
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Balmoral Hall School
Balmoral Hall School is a private school for girls in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond
Brenda Marjorie Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, (born 31 January 1945) is a British judge and the current President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
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Brian Mulroney
Martin Brian Mulroney (born March 20, 1939) is a Canadian politician who served as the 18th Prime Minister of Canada from September 17, 1984, to June 25, 1993.
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Bridgewater State University
Bridgewater State University is a public university located in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, United States.
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British Columbia
British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.
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British Columbia Court of Appeal
The British Columbia Court of Appeal (BCCA) is the highest appellate court in the province of British Columbia, Canada.
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Brock University
Brock University is a public research university in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
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Canadian Judicial Council
The Canadian Judicial Council (CJC; Conseil canadien de la magistrature) is a federal body which oversees federal judges in Canada.
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Canadian order of precedence
The Canadian order of precedence is a nominal and symbolic hierarchy of important positions within the governing institutions of Canada.
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Cape Breton University
Cape Breton University (CBU), formerly known as the "University College of Cape Breton" (UCCB), is a university in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Cardiac pacemaker
Image showing the cardiac pacemaker or SA node, the normal pacemaker within the electrical conduction system of the heart. The contraction of cardiac muscle (heart muscle) in all animals is initiated by electrical impulses known as action potentials.
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Carleton University
Carleton University is a comprehensive university located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Carter v Canada (AG)
Carter v Canada (AG), 2015 SCC 5 is a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision where the prohibition of assisted suicide was challenged as contrary to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ("Charter") by several parties, including the family of Lee Carter, a woman suffering from degenerative spinal stenosis, and Gloria Taylor, a woman suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ("ALS").
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Chief Executive of Hong Kong
The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is the representative of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and head of the Government of Hong Kong in China.
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Chief Justice of Canada
The Chief Justice of Canada is the presiding judge of the Supreme Court of Canada.
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Christian fundamentalism
Christian fundamentalism began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries among British and American Protestants at merriam-webster.com.
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Civil Marriage Act
The Civil Marriage Act (full title: An Act respecting certain aspects of legal capacity for marriage for civil purposes) was legislation legalizing same-sex marriage across Canada.
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Common law
Common law (also known as judicial precedent or judge-made law, or case law) is that body of law derived from judicial decisions of courts and similar tribunals.
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Concordia University
Concordia University (commonly referred to as Concordia) is a public comprehensive university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on unceded Indigenous lands.
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Court of Final Appeal (Hong Kong)
The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal is the final appellate court of Hong Kong.
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Cultural genocide
Cultural genocide or cultural cleansing is a concept that lawyer Raphael Lemkin distinguished in 1944 as a component of genocide.
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Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University (commonly known as Dal) is a public research university in Nova Scotia, Canada, with three campuses in Halifax, a fourth in Bible Hill, and medical teaching facilities in Saint John, New Brunswick.
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David Johnston
David Lloyd Johnston (born June 28, 1941) is a Canadian academic, author, and statesman who served as Governor General of Canada from 2010 to 2017, the 28th since Canadian Confederation.
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Deputy of the Governor General of Canada
A Deputy of the Governor General (Gouverneur général suppléant) is, per the Constitution Act, 1867, one of any individuals appointed by the Governor General of Canada, with the Canadian monarch's consent, to act as the viceroy's steward in his or her stead, exercising any powers so delegated to them by the governor general – generally limited to all abilities save for dissolving parliament, namely, granting Royal Assent to bills passed by parliament, signing Orders in Council, issuing Royal Proclamations, or receiving the credentials of newly appointed ambassadors to Canada.
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Doctor of Civil Law
Doctor of Civil Law (DCL; Doctor Civilis Legis) is a degree offered by some universities, such as the University of Oxford, instead of the more common Doctor of Laws (LLD) degrees.
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Doctor of humane letters
The degree of Doctor of Humane Letters (D.H.L.; or L.H.D.) is almost always conferred as an honorary degree, usually to those students who have distinguished themselves in areas other than science, government, literature or religion, which are awarded degrees of Doctor of Science, Doctor of Laws, Doctor of Letters, or Doctor of Divinity, respectively.
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Doctor of Law
Doctor of Law or Doctor of Laws is a degree in law.
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Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.
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Euthanasia in Canada
Euthanasia in Canada in its legal voluntary form is called medically assisted dying (colloquially assisted suicide or death with dignity) and became legal as of June 2016 to end the suffering of terminally ill adults.
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George Furey
George J. Furey (born May 12, 1948) is a Canadian politician serving as Speaker of the Senate of Canada since 2015.
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Global Centre for Pluralism
The Global Centre for Pluralism (Centre mondial du pluralisme) is an international centre for research, education and exchange about the values, practices and policies that underpin pluralist societies.
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Gordon Gibson
Gordon Fullerton Gibson, (born 1937) is a political columnist, author, and politician in British Columbia (BC), Canada.
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Government of Canada
The Government of Canada (Gouvernement du Canada), formally Her Majesty's Government (Gouvernement de Sa Majesté), is the federal administration of Canada.
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Governor General of Canada
The Governor General of Canada (Gouverneure générale du Canada) is the federal viceregal representative of the.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory of China on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.
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Honorary degree
An honorary degree, in Latin a degree honoris causa ("for the sake of the honor") or ad honorem ("to the honor"), is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived the usual requirements, such as matriculation, residence, a dissertation and the passing of comprehensive examinations.
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Institute of Parliamentary and Political Law
The Institute of Parliamentary and Political Law is a Canadian not-for-profit corporation, founded in February 2008.
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International Commission of Jurists
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) is an international human rights non-governmental organization.
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Jean Chrétien
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (born January 11, 1934), known commonly as Jean Chrétien, is a Canadian politician who served as the 20th Prime Minister of Canada from November 4, 1993, to December 12, 2003.
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Jeanne Sauvé
Jeanne Mathilde Sauvé (née Benoît, April 26, 1922 – January 26, 1993) was a Canadian journalist, politician, and stateswoman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 23rd since Canadian Confederation.
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Julie Payette
Julie Payette (born October 20, 1963) is the current Governor General of Canada, the 29th since Canadian Confederation.
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Justin Trudeau
Justin Pierre James Trudeau (born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian politician serving as the 23rd and current Prime Minister of Canada since 2015 and Leader of the Liberal Party since 2013.
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Ken Coates (historian)
Ken Coates (born 1956 in Alberta and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon) is a Canadian historian focused on the history of the Canadian North and Aboriginal rights and indigenous claims.
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Lakehead University
Lakehead University is a public research university with campuses in Thunder Bay and Orillia, Ontario, Canada.
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Law Society of Alberta
The Law Society of Alberta is the self-regulating body for lawyers in Alberta, Canada.
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Law Society of Ontario
The Law Society of Ontario (LSO) (French: Barreau de l'Ontario) is the law society responsible for the self-regulation of lawyers and paralegals in the Canadian province of Ontario.
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Legion of Honour
The Legion of Honour, with its full name National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte and retained by all the divergent governments and regimes later holding power in France, up to the present.
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Legislative Council of Hong Kong
The Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (LegCo) is the unicameral parliamentary legislature of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
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Lethbridge College
Lethbridge College (previously Lethbridge Community College) opened in 1957 as the first publicly-funded community college in Canada.
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List of Supreme Court of Canada cases (McLachlin Court)
This is a chronological list of notable cases decided by the Supreme Court of Canada from the appointment of Beverley McLachlin as Chief Justice of Canada to her retirement in 2017.
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Louis LeBel
Louis LeBel (born November 30, 1939) was a puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada from 2000 to 2014.
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Lysiane Gagnon
Lysiane Gagnon is a Canadian journalist based in Quebec.
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Maclean's
Maclean's is a Canadian news magazine that was founded in 1905, reporting on Canadian issues such as politics, pop culture, and current events.
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Marc Nadon
Marc Nadon LL.L. (born September 7, 1949) is a supernumerary (semi-retired) judge on the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal.
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Marriage
Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).
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Massey College, Toronto
Massey College is a graduate residential college at the University of Toronto, established, built and partially endowed in 1962 by the Massey Foundation.
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Master of Arts
A Master of Arts (Magister Artium; abbreviated MA; also Artium Magister, abbreviated AM) is a person who was admitted to a type of master's degree awarded by universities in many countries, and the degree is also named Master of Arts in colloquial speech.
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McGill University
McGill University is a public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Memorial University of Newfoundland
Memorial University of Newfoundland, colloquially known as Memorial University or MUN, is a comprehensive university based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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Michaëlle Jean
Michaëlle Jean (born September 6, 1957) is a Canadian stateswoman and former journalist who is the third and current Secretary-General of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, after succeeding Abdou Diouf in January 2015; she is the first woman to hold the position.
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Mount Saint Vincent University
Mount Saint Vincent University, often referred to as The Mount, is a primarily undergraduate public university located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and was established in 1873.
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Office of the Prime Minister (Canada)
In Canada, the Office of the Prime Minister (more commonly referred to as the Prime Minister's Office and abbreviated as PMO), located in the Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council building, facing Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, is one of the most powerful parts of the government.
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Omar Khadr
Omar Ahmed Sayid Khadr (born September 19, 1986) is a Canadian who was detained by the United States at Guantanamo Bay for ten years, from the age of 16, during which he pleaded guilty to the murder of U.S. Army Sergeant 1st Class Christopher Speer and other charges.
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Order of Canada
The Order of Canada (Ordre du Canada) is a Canadian national order and the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.
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Order of Saint John (chartered 1888)
The Order of St John, formally the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (l'ordre très vénérable de l'Hôpital de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem) and also known as St John International, is a British royal order of chivalry first constituted in 1888 by royal charter from Queen Victoria.
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Paul Martin
Paul Edgar Philippe Martin (born August 28, 1938), also known as Paul Martin Jr., is a Canadian politician who served as the 21st Prime Minister of Canada from December 12, 2003, to February 6, 2006.
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Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism or Classical Pentecostalism is a renewal movement"Spirit and Power: A 10-Country Survey of Pentecostals",.
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Peter MacKay
Peter Gordon MacKay (born September 27, 1965) is a lawyer and politician from Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Philosophy
Philosophy (from Greek φιλοσοφία, philosophia, literally "love of wisdom") is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.
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Pincher Creek
Pincher Creek is a town in the southwest of Alberta, Canada.
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Prime Minister of Canada
The Prime Minister of Canada (Premier ministre du Canada) is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus Canada's head of government, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or Governor General of Canada on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution.
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Puisne judge
A puisne judge or puisne justice (French: puisné or puîné, "since-born" i.e. "junior") is a dated term for an ordinary judge of a particular court.
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Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal or The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal is a commemorative medal created in 2012 to mark the sixtieth anniversary of Elizabeth II's accession to the thrones of the Commonwealth realms.
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Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal
The Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal (Médaille du jubilé de la Reine Elizabeth II) or the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal was a commemorative medal created in 2002 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Elizabeth II's accession.
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Queen's Privy Council for Canada
The Queen's Privy Council for Canada (QPC) (Conseil privé de la Reine pour le Canada (CPR)), sometimes called Her Majesty's Privy Council for Canada or simply the Privy Council, is the full group of personal consultants to the monarch of Canada on state and constitutional affairs.
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Queen's University
Queen's University at Kingston (commonly shortened to Queen's University or Queen's) is a public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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Queen's University Belfast
Queen's University Belfast (informally Queen's or QUB) is a public research university in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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R v Keegstra
R v Keegstra, 3 S.C.R. 697 is a landmark freedom of expression decision of the Supreme Court of Canada where the court upheld the Criminal Code provision prohibiting the wilful promotion of hatred against an identifiable group as constitutional under the freedom of expression provision in section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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R v Seaboyer
R v Seaboyer, 2 S.C.R. 577 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision where the Court struck-down a rape-shield provision of the Criminal Code as it violated the right to "full answer and defence" under sections 7 and 11(d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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R v Sharpe
R v Sharpe, 2001 SCC 2 is a Canadian constitutional rights decision of the Supreme Court of Canada.
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R v Zundel
R v Zundel 2 S.C.R. 731 is a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision where the Court struck down the provision in the Criminal Code that prohibited publication of false information or news on the basis that it violated the freedom of expression provision under section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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Rape shield law
A rape shield law is a law that limits a defendant's ability to introduce evidence or cross-examine rape complainants about their past sexual behavior.
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Richard Wagner (judge)
Richard R. Wagner, (born April 2, 1957) is a Canadian judge who serves as the 18th and current Chief Justice of Canada.
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Rodriguez v British Columbia (AG)
Rodriguez v British Columbia (AG), 3 SCR 519 is a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision where the prohibition of assisted suicide was challenged as contrary to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ("Charter") by a terminally ill woman, Sue Rodriguez.
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Royal assent
Royal assent or sanction is the method by which a country's monarch (possibly through a delegated official) formally approves an act of that nation's parliament.
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Ryerson University
Ryerson University (commonly referred to as Ryerson) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Same-sex marriage in Canada
Same-sex marriage in Canada was progressively introduced in several provinces by court decisions beginning in 2003 before being legally recognized nationwide with the enactment of the Civil Marriage Act on July 20, 2005.
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Sheilah Martin
Sheilah L. Martin (born May 21, 1956) is a Puisne Justice on the Supreme Court of Canada, having served in that role since December 18, 2017.
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Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.
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Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada with campuses in Burnaby (Main Campus), Surrey, and Vancouver.
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Speaker of the Senate of Canada
The Speaker of the Senate of Canada (Président du Sénat du Canada) is the presiding officer of the Senate of Canada.
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Stephen Harper
Stephen Joseph Harper (born April 30, 1959) is a Canadian economist, entrepreneur, and retired politician who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada, from February 6, 2006, to November 4, 2015.
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Supreme Court of British Columbia
The Supreme Court of British Columbia (BCSC) is the superior trial court for the province of British Columbia, Canada.
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Supreme Court of Canada
The Supreme Court of Canada (Cour suprême du Canada) is the highest court of Canada, the final court of appeals in the Canadian justice system.
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Taliban
The Taliban (طالبان "students"), alternatively spelled Taleban, which refers to itself as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), is a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan currently waging war (an insurgency, or jihad) within that country.
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The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.
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The Right Honourable
The Right Honourable (The Rt Hon. or Rt Hon.) is an honorific style traditionally applied to certain persons and to certain collective bodies in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, India, some other Commonwealth realms, the Anglophone Caribbean, Mauritius, and occasionally elsewhere.
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Toronto Star
The Toronto Star is a Canadian broadsheet daily newspaper.
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Université de Montréal
The Université de Montréal (UdeM) is a public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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University of Alberta
The University of Alberta (also known as U of A and UAlberta) is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses in Vancouver and Kelowna, British Columbia.
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University of Calgary
The University of Calgary (U of C or UCalgary) is a public research university located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh (abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals), founded in 1582, is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities.
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University of Lethbridge
The University of Lethbridge (also known as uLethbridge, uLeth, and U of L) is a publicly funded comprehensive academic and research university, founded in the liberal education tradition, located in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, with a second campus in the city of Calgary, Alberta.
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University of Maine at Fort Kent
The University of Maine at Fort Kent (French: L'Université du Maine à Fort Kent) is a public liberal arts university in the U.S. state of Maine near the Canada–US border with Québec and New Brunswick.
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University of Manitoba
The University of Manitoba (U of M, UMN, or UMB) is a public university in the province of Manitoba, Canada.
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University of Ottawa
The University of Ottawa (uOttawa or U of O) (Université d'Ottawa) is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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University of Prince Edward Island
The University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) is a public university in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and the sole university in the province.
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University of Toronto
The University of Toronto (U of T, UToronto, or Toronto) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.
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University of Victoria
The University of Victoria (UVic) is a major research university located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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University of Western Ontario
The University of Western Ontario (UWO), corporately branded as Western University as of 2012 and commonly shortened to Western, is a public research university in London, Ontario, Canada.
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University of Windsor
The University of Windsor (U of W or UWindsor) is a public comprehensive and research university in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
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Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.
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William Johnstone Ritchie
Sir William Johnstone Ritchie (October 28, 1813 – September 25, 1892) was one of the first judges appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada.
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William McIntyre (judge)
William Rogers McIntyre, (March 15, 1918 – June 14, 2009) was a Canadian Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
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York University
York University (Université York) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal
The 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal (Médaille commémorative du 125e anniversaire de la Confédération du Canada) is a commemorative medal struck by the Royal Canadian Mint to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the Confederation of Canada and was awarded to Canadians who were deemed to have made a significant contribution to their fellow citizens, to their community, or to Canada.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverley_McLachlin
