Taxpayers’ Rights in Canada

Regulating a revolution: the extent of reproductive rights in Canada.

most basic instinct of all creatures is to survive and propagate. The social concepts of love, family, community and mortality strengthen the biological drive for genetic procreation. Reproductive liberty is most often described as a negative right: a guaranteed right to be free from state interference in procreative choice. 1 Few theorists in the developed world would contradict the negative r...

Children's Intellectual Rights in Canada: A Comparative Constitutional Approach

Public Policy, Rights, and Abortion Access in Canada

The Supreme Court of Canada’s 1988 decision to invalidate federal criminal law restrictions on abortion is often portrayed as paving the way for unregulated ‘‘abortion on demand’’ in Canada. This depiction belies the patchwork of regulatory barriers to access in place at the provincial level and obscures a host of litigation for improved funding and access across the country. This article explo...

Power Imbalances, Food Insecurity, and Children’s Rights in Canada

Increasingly, food is provided through an industrial food system that separates people from the source of their food and results in high rates of food insecurity, particularly for the most vulnerable in society. A lack of food is a symptom of a lack of power in a system that privileges free market principles over social justice and the protection of human rights. In Canada, the high rates of fo...

Traders, Taxpayers, Citizens

This article argues that it was through their common relationship to the commercial environment formed by the city that the independent lower middle classes were able to construct a collective identity. The article examines these identities first in the context of a comparison between Rome and Milan, and then within the provincial towns of Lombardy. It suggests that the concern of the petite bo...