Vanessa MacDonnell

Looking forward to participating in the 2025 Courts & Politics Research Group annual spring workshop today with colleagues from political science. Kate Puddister and Emmett Macfarlane have done a terrific job putting the program together.

Pleased to have a chapter on the early professional life of Justice Abella in this open access collection. Congratulations to the editors on this important contribution to judicial biography in Canada.

In 2022, the @uodroitpublaw.bsky.social and the CIAJ held a conference to mark the retirement of Justice Rosalie Abella from the Supreme Court of Canada. I am delighted that an open-access collection flowing from the conference has now been published! utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781552216712

On June 2, we will be holding a symposium at the UK Parliament on the unwritten rules, norms and principles that make constitutional government work.

To join us, please contact @paolosandro.bsky.social at the email address below. Looking forward to seeing many colleagues there!

Excited to be in Taipei this week for Academia Sinica’s 2025 Comparative Constitutional Law Roundtable, hosted by Professor Oran Doyle. Interesting papers on comparative method, judicial agenda setting and constitutional amendment, among others.

I spoke with UN Secretary-General António Guterres today. In this time of rising conflict, Canada is ready to lead.

We will build coalitions, defend democracy, and stand up for our values on the world stage. As others step back from global leadership, Canada is stepping up.

Congratulations to @yybrandonc.bsky.social for this work in the SCC in the Kanyinda case!

Bravo to our brilliant students for putting together this podcast on the prorogation decision, and to Mallory Dunlop, the student team member who worked with us on our intervention in MacKinnon, for her stellar commentary on the case in this podcast.

This is insane!!

I hope it’s the sign of more to come!

Executive Self-Government and the Constitution Abstract. Over the last 25 years, UK governments have faced a series of challenges and changes of an intensity almost unprecedented in peacetime: some thru

Terence Daintith and Alan Page's book Executive Self-Government and the Constitution is out!!
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Eddie, this is great! 🤩 Thanks for sharing it.

Lolllllllllll

Nice!!!!!

INSCRIPTION MAINTENANT OUVERTE! Le @uodroitpublaw.bsky.social, @umontreal.ca et @schulichlaw.bsky.social tiendra une conférence académique pour marquer le 150e anniversaire de la Cour suprême du Canada. Informations sur la conférence et les modalités d'inscription ici: lnkd.in/esKJMbqR

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! On June 10-12, 2025, the @uodroitpublaw.bsky.social, the @umontreal.ca and @schulichlaw.bsky.social will hold an academic conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the Supreme Court of Canada. Conference and registration details here: lnkd.in/esKJMbqR. Join us!

As we kick off an election in Canada this morning, for those concerned w/ the potential for undue electoral interference in this election — and we all shld be — it is worth taking a minute and familiarizing yourself w/ the Critical Election Incident Public Protocol.

www.canada.ca/en/democrati...

Election time!

Yes. We need to work to keep it this way.

An infographic depicting the results of EIU’s 2024 Democracy Index, with the annual index registering a decline in its total score from 5.23 in 2023 to 5.17 (on a 0-10 scale). The overall global Democracy Index score has fallen from 5.52 in 2006 to an historic low of 5.17 in 2024, when 130 countries of the total 167 covered by the index either registered a decline in their score or made no improvement. More than one-third (39.2%) of the world population live under authoritarian rule. Sixty countries are now classified as “authoritarian regimes”, an increase of one compared with the 2023 index, and an increase of eight from a decade ago in 2014.

It’s no small thing that Canadian democracy stands strong (even if there is still room for improvement) at a time when democracy is under threat and in decline worldwide.

So richly deserved - way to go @jcyliew.bsky.social !!

New Substack on the recent John Howard decision macdonnell.substack.com/p/securing-t...

Canada reconsidering F-35 purchase amid tensions with Washington, says minister | CBC News Canada is looking at cancelling a major portion of its purchase of U.S.-built F-35 stealth fighters and plans on opening talks with rival aircraft makers, Defence Minister Bill Blair said.

Bill Blair says DND is reconsidering buying F-35s from the U.S. amid tensions with the Trump administration.

I was wondering this too haha

The Canadian Bar Association welcomes the appointment of The Honourable Gary Anandasangaree as Minister of Justice and Attorney General. We look forward to working with him and his cabinet colleagues: https://bit.ly/4iMa8Zd

Cabinet Right Honourable Mark Carney - Le très honorable Mark Carney

Full Ministry listing here: www.pm.gc.ca/en/cabinet

Looks like it’s 11/23, so I guess that’s pretty much equal.

Gary Anandasangaree is Canada’s New Minister of Justice and Attorney General. He is also Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern affairs (!)

Right Honourable Mark Carney Home Page of the Right Honourable Mark Carney

Website has been updated! www.pm.gc.ca/en

By the looks of it Carney has resiled from Trudeau’s practice of having a gender equal cabinet?