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The Supreme Court didn't agree, neither did we. You be the judge!

The majority of Canada's top court on Friday rejected an appeal from parents here in Quebec who sought the right to keep their children out of the ethics and religious culture program. The program was introduced in 2008 to elementary and high schools, replacing religion classes with a curriculum covering all major faiths found in Quebec culture.

The judges of the the Supreme Court didn’t all agree, and neither did my FREE FOR ALL panel.  

CJAD: The return of Anne-France Goldwater and Linda Hammerschmid!

Anne-France Goldwater and Linda Hammerschmid on the Tommy Schnurmacher Show, debating the role of shared parenting in custody litigation today.

Coping with Canada Reads

Let’s say you’re a writer on a sketch comedy show and you want to do a send-up of CanCon. So you come up with a bit where a bunch of B-list Canadian celebrities (the only kind there is, really) get together, and every day for an entire week, they spend an hour batting at one another about Canadian literature over the public radio waves.

Le Canada anglais s'intéresse à L'arbitre

(Montréal) Bien connue au Québec pour avoir défendu une mère monoparentale dans la cause Éric et Lola, Me Anne-France Goldwater fait maintenant parler d'elle au Canada anglais. Ça tombe bien: Le Soleil a appris qu'elle pourrait animer une version anglaise de L'arbitre, dont elle est la vedette à V.

Selon le producteur et rédacteur en chef de L'arbitre, Yves Thériault, notre Judge Judy québécoise (Me Anne-France Goldwater), dont la langue maternelle est l'anglais, montre plus de compassion que les juges habituels de ce genre d'émissions aux États-Unis.

Something fierce makes Canada Reads interesting, for once

One of the authors at the centre of a nasty fight over CBC’s Canada Reads contest is now in Ottawa, performing a play based on her contentious book.

Carmen Aguirre is performing her one-woman show, at the Great Canadian Theatre Company & to Feb. 12. The play is based, in part, on her memoir Something Fierce – Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, a memoir of her days as a teenaged member of the resistance movement in Chile. This week it brought unexpected and welcome excitement to CBC Radio’s otherwise tediously genteel book contest.

La contre-attaque d'Anne-France Goldwater

Au cœur d’une controverse à la suite de ses propos engagés lors d'une émission littéraire où elle traitait un auteur de "terroriste", Me Anne-France Goldwater revient sur le sujet et s'explique.

« Terroriste », voilà le mot à l’origine du scandale provoqué par Me Anne-France Goldwater, alias Juge Judy. Un mot pour qualifier Carmen Aguirre, l’auteur du livre "Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter", qui revient sur son parcours révolutionnaire.

Canada Reads caught in fact-fiction divide

In extending Canada Reads to include works of non-fiction for the first time since the contest’s inception 10 years ago, the CBC has inadvertently transformed a friendly, domestic literary debate into a geopolitical furor focused on volatile questions of truth and justice in distant totalitarian regimes.

Canada Reads 2012 Day Two

Canada Reads Day Two begins. The 2012 books still in the competition are:

The Game, by Ken Dryden, defended by actor Alan Thicke.

Canada Reads 2012 Day One

Canada Reads: True Stories is underway, with five celebrity panellists debating the merit of five non-fiction titles during the annual CBC book debate. The 2012 books and their respective celebrity champions are:

The Game, by Ken Dryden, defended by actor Alan Thicke.

Prisoner of Tehran, by Marina Nemat, defended by Arlene Dickinson of CBC-TV’s Dragons’ Den.

Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, by Carmen Aguirre, defended by rapper Shad.

“Lola” lawyer Anne France Goldwater said WHAT to Linda Hammerschmid???

You wouldn’t believe it... but Anne-France Goldwater and Linda Hammerschmid actually know one another, and they really like one another! They’ve known each other for MORE THAN 30 YEARS but you certainly wouldn’t be able to tell by the way they attacked one another tooth-and-nail... the segment was supposed to last for half-an-hour ... we extended it by 30 minutes... and then we extended it yet again by another 30 minutes. The calls and the texts never stopped. You HAVE to hear it to believe it! I’d love to hear what you think about these two..

C'est Extra! Jeune mineur jugé à perpétuité

La chronique de Me Anne-France Goldwater. Elle discute du cas d'un jeune homme condamné pour un meurtre prémédité qui est condamné à prison à perpétuité, quoi qu'il est mineur, et ce, vu la gravité de l'offense. Sommes-nous d'accord avec ce verdict?

Lola vs Eric goes to the Supreme Court of Canada

Anne France Goldwater is Lola's former lawyer and said, "What hasn't happened in Quebec, uniquely in Quebec, unlike the rest of Canada, and it's very weird, is that common-law couples have not attracted the same protection.  So you have a whole chapter of our civil law called THE FAMILY, that  completely excludes common-law families."

Entrevue avec Paul Houde à 98.5FM

Anne-France Goldwater: La Cour suprême du Canada entend aujourd'hui les arguments des parties impliquées dans la cause Éric contre Lola'

Top court maps out approach to support changes

Anne-France Goldwater of Montreal’s Goldwater, Dube, counsel for the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) and the DisAbled Women’s Network Canada (DAWN-RAFH) who intervened in L.M.P. v. L.S., said the groups were “thrilled” with the Supreme Court's judgment. 

C'est Extra! L'enlèvement par un parent

La chronique de Me Anne-France Goldwater. Lorsqu'un parent enlève un enfant de la garde de l'autre, il s'agit d'un événement marquant et traumatisant pour l'enfant. Que peut faire le parent qui se voit voler son enfant? Me Goldwater nous explique La Convention de la Haye, loi conçue pour assurer un prompte retour de l'enfant dans son pays d'origine, là ou tout débat autour de sa garde doit avoir lieu. La loi protège le droit de l'enfant d'être retourné dans le pays de sa résidence habituelle.

Mariage gai non valide? L'avocat du fédéral «n'y connaît rien»

MONTRÉAL – L'avocat du gouvernement fédéral qui a avancé que les mariages des couples étrangers de même sexe au Canada ne sont pas valides «n'y connaît rien» et a fait preuve d'un malheureux «excès de zèle», estime la spécialiste du droit matrimonial, Me Anne-France Goldwater.

Au-delà de la vengeance: l’année en justice avec Anne-France Goldwater

L’avocate Anne-France Goldwater se prononce sur les grands cas qui ont marqué l’année 2011 dans le domaine judiciaire

No shrinking violet

Anne-France Goldwater, BCL’80, is a one-of-a-kind presence on the Quebec legal scene. Her frank manner and shoot-from-the-hip style stand out in a world soaked in protocol and civility. It doesn’t hurt that she has a knack for court cases that grab newspaper headlines.

Meet Canada Reads panelist Anne-France Goldwater

Quebec litigator Anne-France Goldwater may not be familiar to many Canada Reads fans outside 

Anne-France Goldwater is defending The Tiger by John Vaillant

Anne-France Goldwater is considered one of Quebec's more opinionated and colourful lawyers.