Geoffrey Sigalet

Well look what came in the mail today! With a gorgeous cover (J. David’s Serment du Jeu Paume) and note on its image by @CT_Green

It was a privilege to attend former Justice Brown’s festschrift this past weekend. Canada has lost an exceptionally clear-minded and rigorous jurist, but his legacy will live on in his principled jurisprudence and masterful dissents.

Kloubakov is principally a statutory interpretation case that finally settles the question of whether new offence provisions enacted by PCEPA prevent sex workers from taking safety enhancing measures found to have been prevented by offence provisions considered in Bedford 1/9

Supreme Court of Canada unanimously dismiss R v Kloubakov appeal. Sex work provisions enacted in response to Bedford decision are constitutional. decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-cs…

Here is an interview I did with CUA Press about my new book on Jacques Maritain: na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

George Grant would see resurgent 'elbows up' nationalism as a hollow and banal progressivism unable to provide us with a distinct identity, leaving us doomed to disappear in the face of America’s relentlessly progressive technological civilization: thehub.ca/2025/07/12/ben…

In case you missed it; read this and engage! 👇💯

Fantastic piece. “Too many regard the role of university education as teaching students to repudiate and reject their social order, rather than understanding, preserving, and reforming it for the common good” #cdnpoli thehub.ca/2025/06/30/dee…

Happy fourth of July! To celebrate America here is one of our most popular @UbcPpe lectures of the year: Dr. Richard Jordan (Baylor) on "Gladiator and the Dream of Rome": youtube.com/watch?v=loJVo4… We are grateful to @Liberal_Studies for supporting our @UbcPpe Conversations series

DeepDive by John von Heyking and @GeoffSigalet: Canada’s universities are failing to provide proper civic education. Here’s how Alberta can correct course. FREE 3-month Hub subscription: thehub.ca/free-trial/ Full article here: thehub.ca/2025/06/30/dee…

A Canada Day 🇨🇦 critique of civic education capacities worth chewing on… DeepDive: Canada’s universities are failing to provide proper civic education. Here’s how Alberta can correct course - The Hub thehub.ca/2025/06/30/dee…

Canadian universities are in many cases fostering civic illiteracy, intolerance, and cancel culture: what is to be done? John von Heyking and I argue for @TheHubCanada that Alberta and other provinces should establish new “Schools of Civics”: thehub.ca/2025/06/30/dee…

Shame on @utulsa @jennfrey would be a great inaugural director if Alberta or other provinces follow my argument with John von Heyking and create new Schools of Civics: thehub.ca/2025/06/30/dee…

One of my favourite things about @TheHubCanada is that we're not limited to day-to-day politics or rank punditry. Sometimes we push bold (and well-developed) policy ideas. This new essay on university reform by John von Heyking and @GeoffSigalet is one example. It's a must read.

per Miller J.A.: “The apparent triviality of the ultimate issue in this appeal – whether a public office holder must reside in the geographic area the officer serves – masks the massive expansion of judicial power required to allow the appeal.” 1/

A justly blistering dissent from Justice Miller today in Drover v. Canada on the administration of justice threshold in s.7 claims. Includes citations to @DwightNewmanLaw @GregoireWebber Colton Fehr and an epilogue on how to understand Edwards v Canada: coadecisions.ontariocourts.ca/coa/coa/en/ite…

Have the courts become too political? Today's encore episode of Runnymede Radio features Professor @TedMortonMLA as he discusses the changes in how Canadians view the role of our courts and the purpose of our constitution. Have a listen! runnymedesociety.ca/morton-the-pol…