David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights - part of the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, since 2008. Realizing Constitutional rights through advocacy, research and education. www.aspercentre.cahttps://bsky.app/profile/aspercentre.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/aspercentre.bsky.social/post/3m7ku3ynrf222🚨🌍 The Asper Centre opposes Ontario’s recently passed Bill 68, which removes the province’s duty to set greenhouse gas targets — a last-minute attempt to avoid Charter accountability on climate change. Read our Statement here: https://aspercentre.ca/statement-on-ontarios-attempts-to-avoid-its-climate-change-obligations-and-its-legal-commitments/09 Dec 2025 15:25 +0000at://did:plc:octnbmp3eu5bj7gqmnkdhmxp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7ku3ynrf222https://bsky.app/profile/aspercentre.bsky.social/post/3m6hpd6e7as2tNew on the Asper Centre Blog: @uoftlaw.bsky.social JD student Daniel Minden highlights Professor David Rabban’s recent lecture, calling for a clearly defined First Amendment right to academic freedom amid growing political pressure on U.S. universities.🎓✨ READ: https://aspercentre.ca/david-rabban-argues-for-a-distinct-theory-of-the-right-to-academic-freedom-as-the-u-s-and-state-governments-tighten-the-screws-on-universities/25 Nov 2025 15:56 +0000at://did:plc:octnbmp3eu5bj7gqmnkdhmxp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6hpd6e7as2thttps://bsky.app/profile/aspercentre.bsky.social/post/3lyidw7x63c2k🚨New Asper Centre report: More than Busybodies looks at the status of public interest interveners in Canadian courts & makes 7 key recommendations to strengthen their role. Read more 👉 https://aspercentre.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/More-than-Busybodies-Asper-Centre-Report.pdf #AccessToJustice #ConstitutionalLaw #PublicInterestLitigation10 Sep 2025 13:33 +0000at://did:plc:octnbmp3eu5bj7gqmnkdhmxp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyidw7x63c2khttps://bsky.app/profile/aspercentre.bsky.social/post/3lweqnjna5k2j📢 In collaboration with CELA, we've created an Environmental Legal Action Guide — for activists fighting for environmental justice in Ontario. Covers: *Environmental Bill of Rights *Nuisance law *Charter & Indigenous rights *Proposals for law & policy reform Read: https://aspercentre.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Asper-Centre-CELA-Environmental-Legal-Action-Guide_August-2025-Final.pdf 💚14 Aug 2025 16:20 +0000at://did:plc:octnbmp3eu5bj7gqmnkdhmxp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lweqnjna5k2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/aspercentre.bsky.social/post/3ltzmt6deek23Meet Megan Savard, the Asper Centre’s Fall 2025 Constitutional Litigator in Residence! U of T Law alum, founder of Savards LLP, and defender of Charter rights, she’s back to mentor students + push for systemic change. READ Blog post ⬇️ #CharterRights #AccessToJustice https://aspercentre.ca/meet-megan-savard-the-asper-centres-new-constitutional-litigator-in-residence-for-fall-2025/15 Jul 2025 19:22 +0000at://did:plc:octnbmp3eu5bj7gqmnkdhmxp/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltzmt6deek23https://bsky.app/profile/aspercentre.bsky.social/post/3lrg32nojj222NEW on the Asper Centre BLOG >> "Encampments and the Charter Workshop: Charter Challenges, Systemic Barriers, and Indigenous Legal Perspectives" by @uoftlaw.bsky.social JD Candidates Aurora Lawrence and Jay Wai🙏 READ: aspercentre.ca/encampments-... @centreconststud.bsky.social https://aspercentre.ca/encampments-..12 Jun 2025 13:53 +0000at://did:plc:octnbmp3eu5bj7gqmnkdhmxp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrg32nojj222https://bsky.app/profile/aspercentre.bsky.social/post/3lqpqepfcbs2pICYMI 📢 Call for Papers: The Asper Centre invites abstracts for a symposium on litigating positive rights under the Charter (at U of T Law). Deadline for Abstracts: June 30, 2025. Details: https://aspercentre.ca/event/call-for-papers-positive-rights-litigation-symposium/ — please share!🙏03 Jun 2025 16:43 +0000at://did:plc:octnbmp3eu5bj7gqmnkdhmxp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqpqepfcbs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/aspercentre.bsky.social/post/3lojca5o7t22jWe're intervening w/NAWL @nawlanfd.bsky.social at the SCC next week in this case about Quebec’s exclusion of refugee claimants fr/subsidized daycare as a s.15 Charter violation. FACTUM: https://aspercentre.ca/.../05/41210-Factum-NAWL-and-DAC.pdf Thanks to pro-bono counsel Kerri Froc @kerrifroc.bsky.social & Suzanne Zaccour🙏06 May 2025 16:24 +0000at://did:plc:octnbmp3eu5bj7gqmnkdhmxp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lojca5o7t22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/aspercentre.bsky.social/post/3lo4bf6xcpk2yShould the voting age in Canada be lowered? Our ED Cheryl Milne (@cherylmilne.bsky.social) says there are many potential benefits to lowering the voting age. For example, it would encourage politicians to pay more attention to issues that matter to young people. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/should-the-voting-age-in-canada-be-lowered-these-young-yukoners-think-so-1.751221101 May 2025 12:04 +0000at://did:plc:octnbmp3eu5bj7gqmnkdhmxp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo4bf6xcpk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/aspercentre.bsky.social/post/3lnl3djoo3c2gOn the BLOG today >> Our Research Associate Rob de Luca writes about "The City of Toronto’s Potential New By-law Limiting Public Demonstrations" and its Charter implications. Details about how to engage in the City's ongoing consultation process are included. READ: https://aspercentre.ca/the-city-of-torontos-potential-new-bylaw-limiting-public-demonstrations/24 Apr 2025 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:octnbmp3eu5bj7gqmnkdhmxp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnl3djoo3c2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/aspercentre.bsky.social/post/3lnkxwmdh2k25Our 2025 OUTLOOK Newsletter is out, with contributions from @uoftlaw.bsky.social students about recent constitutional law decisions from the SCC and Ontario Court of Appeal, Asper Centre working group updates, and an update about our Voting Age challenge🙏 READ: https://aspercentre.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-Asper-Centre-OUTLOOK-Newsletter.pdf24 Apr 2025 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:octnbmp3eu5bj7gqmnkdhmxp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnkxwmdh2k25https://bsky.app/profile/aspercentre.bsky.social/post/3lniwdpbvc22x📢 CALL for PAPERS📢 Attention legal scholars and practitioners❗❗ The Asper Centre is pleased to announce a call for papers for an upcoming symposium focused on litigating positive rights under the Charter. Abstracts are due JUNE 30, 2025. READ: https://aspercentre.ca/event/call-for-papers-positive-rights-litigation-symposium/ Pls share widely 🙏23 Apr 2025 19:26 +0000at://did:plc:octnbmp3eu5bj7gqmnkdhmxp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lniwdpbvc22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/aspercentre.bsky.social/post/3ll7nsuh56k2t🏆 👏 🎉CONGRATULATIONS to our Executive Director, Cheryl Milne @cherylmilne.bsky.social, who has been awarded the University of Toronto's 2025 Chancellor’s Distinguished Leadership Award!!! READ: https://people.utoronto.ca/award/chancellors-leadership-award/25 Mar 2025 16:09 +0000at://did:plc:octnbmp3eu5bj7gqmnkdhmxp/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll7nsuh56k2thttps://bsky.app/profile/aspercentre.bsky.social/post/3lknunwp2xc25On the BLOG today > LLM student Taoran Li on the SCC's decision in Ontario (A.G.) v. Working Families Coalition (Canada) Inc., in which the Asper Centre intervened. Thanks to Debbie Boswell & Earl Cherniak of @lerners.ca for representing us in this intervention🙏 https://aspercentre.ca/supreme-court-concludes-limits-on-third-party-spending-for-political-advertising-violate-the-right-to-vote-2/18 Mar 2025 14:23 +0000at://did:plc:octnbmp3eu5bj7gqmnkdhmxp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lknunwp2xc25https://bsky.app/profile/aspercentre.bsky.social/post/3lhjdewaazk2kWe are pleased to be convening this upcoming special lecture at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, featuring Kim Murray on: Crimes Against Humanity and Indian Residential Schools in Canada February 25, 2025 at 5:00pm EST. Registration Required. More information here: uoft.me/mg2506 Feb 2025 14:48 +0000at://did:plc:octnbmp3eu5bj7gqmnkdhmxp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhjdewaazk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/aspercentre.bsky.social/post/3lfrwjq7dxs2oMany thanks to Prof Margot Young for a terrific Constitutional Roundtable yesterday - enthralling us with her talk on Zombie Concepts: Contagion in Canadian Equality Law! Don't miss another chance to hear Prof Young at our BOOK LAUNCH event tomorrow. More INFO here: https://aspercentre.ca/event/litigating-equality-book-launch-event/15 Jan 2025 14:02 +0000at://did:plc:octnbmp3eu5bj7gqmnkdhmxp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfrwjq7dxs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/aspercentre.bsky.social/post/3lfffv2xq5s2r🎧🎙 Episode 6 of Season 4 of Charter: A Course podcast is now available! With special guests, UofT Law's Professor John Borrows & Jessica Orkin of Goldblatt Partners LLP. Listen to this episode wherever you stream your podcasts OR find it on our website here: https://aspercentre.ca/charter-a-course/10 Jan 2025 14:32 +0000at://did:plc:octnbmp3eu5bj7gqmnkdhmxp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfffv2xq5s2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/aspercentre.bsky.social/post/3lcxqbau5q22v🎧🎙️Thanks for tuning in to "Charter: A Course" in 2024🙏 We’ve wrapped up 5 of the 7 episodes of Season 4 of the podcast - the last 2 episodes will drop in Jan 2025! Please LIKE & FOLLOW us wherever you stream your podcasts, so you won't miss any future episodes. https://aspercentre.ca/charter-a-course/10 Dec 2024 17:10 +0000at://did:plc:octnbmp3eu5bj7gqmnkdhmxp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcxqbau5q22v