Peter Russell

3 weeks ago | johnmenadue.com | Justin Trudeau |Peter Russell |Michael Adams |Doug Saunders

August 3, 2018         A cover of The Economist in 2003 featured a moosethat universally recognized symbol of Canadawearing sunglasses. Inside, the magazine extolled Canadas new sophistication: its openness, even then, to legalizing gay marriage and decriminalizing marijuana; its cosmopolitan cities (Toronto would soon become the most diverse metropolis in the world, with over half of its residents foreign-born); and its growing international cultural clout.

May 22, 2023 | medscape.co.uk | Peter Russell

A woman with Down's syndrome said she planned to take the UK to the European Court of Human Rights in her long-running challenge to the law allowing late abortion of a foetus with the condition . Heidi Crowter has fought to reverse a clause in the 1967 Abortion Act  which permits abortion up to the time of birth where there was a substantial risk that once born, a child would be seriously handicapped because of physical or mental abnormalities.