{"id":1665,"date":"2016-02-25T16:04:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T16:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2016-06-21T02:45:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T02:45:34","slug":"promoting-the-runnymede-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/promoting-the-runnymede-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting the Runnymede Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the National Post ran an op-ed piece co-authored by Asher Honickman, Marni Soupcoff (Executive Director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation) and Joanna Baron (Director of the Runnymede Society). The article, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/full-comment\/honickman-soupcoff-baron-safeguarding-the-rule-of-law\">&#8220;Safeguarding the Rule of Law&#8221;,<\/a> speaks to the importance of constitutionalism and the rule of law in Canada and some recent decisions at the Supreme Court that call into question the Court&#8217;s commitment to those fundamental principles. The article also discusses the formation and goals of the Runnymede Society, which you can read about more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/introducing-the-runnymede-society\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Joanna Baron was a guest on National Post Radio with <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/author\/mattgurneynatpost\">Matt Gurney<\/a>, the editor of, and columnist for, the National Post Comment section. Joanna discussed recent decisions of the Supreme Court and spoke in greater detail about our vision for the Runnymede Society. You can listen below.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1665-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/CSCNTK-02-25-16-Joanna-Baron.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/CSCNTK-02-25-16-Joanna-Baron.mp3\">https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/CSCNTK-02-25-16-Joanna-Baron.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the National Post ran an op-ed piece co-authored by Asher Honickman, Marni Soupcoff (Executive Director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation) and Joanna Baron (Director of the Runnymede Society). The article, &#8220;Safeguarding the Rule of Law&#8221;, speaks to the importance of constitutionalism and the rule of law in Canada and some recent decisions at the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":1667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1668,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions\/1668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruleoflaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}