It’s been a year since the Supreme Court of Canada handed down its landmark ruling on unreasonable trial delays known as the Jordan decision. Since then, more than 200 criminal cases across Canada have been thrown out of court.

Some of those cases include murders, sexual assaults and child luring – a state of affairs that is angering victims’ families, law enforcement agencies and Crown attorneys across the country.

It doesn’t have to be that way – and is in fact unique to Canada – writes the University of Western Ontario’s Christopher Sherrin, who argues the courts have plenty of tools to mitigate long delays for those accused of crimes without terminating their prosecutions.

We’re also out with another story in our Canada +150 series, this one on what we’ll be eating in 2167. The squeamish may want to avert their eyes: there will be insects on the menu, as well as other alternate forms of protein that have much smaller carbon footprints than, to name one example, beef. What’s more, thanks to longer growing seasons brought on by climate change, Canada is poised to emerge as an agri-food powerhouse over the next 150 years.

And we offer up another unique Arts piece: Ali Kazimi, professor of cinema and media arts at York University, gives a first-person report on a remarkable standing-room-only night he hosted with author Arundhati Roy when she took to a Toronto stage two weeks ago to read from her new book, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. Roy is a hero to many, not just for her first novel The God of Small Things that won the Booker Prize 20 years ago. Since then, she has, as the Globe and Mail recently reported, shifted “from celebrated novelist to prolific critic of globalization, neo-imperialism and U.S. foreign policy, and campaigning against India’s nuclear program, dam construction and the rise of Hindu nationalism.”

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