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Author: David Ebner
Publication Date: January 24, 2026 - 05:00
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How long do lawyers have to make their case before a Supreme Court judge interrupts them?
January 24, 2026
In late 2023, preparing for a hearing at the Supreme Court of Canada, lawyer Jeremy Opolsky wondered how much time he would have before the judges launched their fusillade of questions.
The general answer, he knew, was not much time at all – and, indeed, in the courtroom on a corporate bankruptcy case, Mr. Opolsky had spoken for 72 seconds when Justice Suzanne Côté interjected with a query.
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February 23, 2026 - 06:34 | | The Globe and Mail
In July of 1979, Ronald Reagan, then eighteen months from the presidency, was taken to see the North American Aerospace Defense Command, better known as NORAD. The underground facility, jointly run by the United States and Canada, is carved inside Cheyenne Mountain, near Colorado Springs. In one widely cited account of the visit, many on the tour were visibly awed by the scale and seriousness of the operation. But when Reagan asked what the US could do to stop a nuclear missile, the answer shocked him: nothing.
As the story goes, Reagan was told that all NORAD could do was track incoming...
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