Khan: Justice Rosalie Abella showed us that being racialized isn t just about skin colour Jon Khan © Provided by Ottawa Citizen Supreme Court of Canada Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella (left), who must step down July 1, is show with Sharon Johnston, wife of the former governor general, at an event in Ottawa in 2016. Last Friday, Canada’s longest-serving Supreme Court judge, Justice “Rosie” Abella, heard her last case. She must retire on July 1. Canadians increasingly hear that her successor must be “racialized.” Some say Canada’s “all-white” Supreme Court must remedy its embarrassingly late historical first: Canada must finally appoint a racialized judge.
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Supreme Court agrees 14-year-old was too drunk to consent to sex By Leslie MacKinnon. Published on May 7, 2021 1:13pm The Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa (Jolson Lim/iPolitics)
In an 8-1 decision on Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the conviction of a young offender for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl who didn’t have the capacity to validly consent to sex.
C.P., the offender in the case whose identity is protected, was 15 when he and a girl, referred to as D in court documents, gathered with other teens at a beach in Scarborough, Ont., on an April night in 2016, planning to get drunk and party.