"A native of Qu茅bec City, F.R. Scott (...) led a varied life as a poet, constitutional lawyer, and politician. He completed his schooling in Qu茅bec in 1919, taught for one year, and then went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar in 1920. Scott returned to Montr茅al in 1923 and entered the Law School at 91社区 in 1924. During this time he was involved in The 91社区 Daily Literary Supplement and The 91社区 Fornightly Review which he helped to establish. In 1928 he joined the Law Faculty at 91社区 as Assistant Professor of constitutional and federal law. In 1931-1932, Scott and historian Frank Underhill founded the League for Social Reconstruction, a socialist study group. During the 1930s and 1940s, he was involved in editing and contributing to a number of literary magazines, was active with the C.C.F., and published his first collection of poetry, Overture, in 1945. He published Events and Signals in 1954 and Eye of the Needle in 1957. He was appointed Macdonald Professor of Law in 1955 and was Dean of Law from 1961 to 1963. During the 1960s, Scott helped found the New Party, the successor to the C.C.F. and the predecessor to the N.D.P. Following his retirement from active party politics, he served on the Royal Commission on Biculturalism and Bilingualism. In 1977 his Essays on the Constitution won the Governor-General's Award." He died in 1985 at the age of 85.
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Anna Maria Tremonti, Host, The Current, CBC Radio One
February 15, 2017 -
The Honourable Rosalie Abella, Supreme Court of Canada
October 19, 2016 -
Jonathan Kay, Editor-in-Chief,听The Walrus Magazine
Journalism's New (Unlikely) Golden Age
December 8, 2015 - Jeffrey Simpson, National Affairs columnist, The Globe and Mail
October 20, 2014 - Hon. John H. Gomery and Bernard St-Laurent
Corruption. A View from an Insider
February 12, 2013 - Glenn D. Lowry, Director MoMA
A Fine Balance: When Art and the Law Meet
September 24, 2012 - Honourable Mr. Justice Morris Fish
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February 2, 2011 - Graham Fraser
November 18, 2009 - The Honourable Justice W. Ian Binnie
March 3, 2009 - L. Ian MacDonald
The BNA and the Charter: Two Mints in One
November 6, 2007 - Professor Roderick Macdonald
Appoint, elect, draw straws or sell to the highest bidder? Choosing our judges
October 10, 2006 - Michael Gnarowski
Frank Scott: Man and Poet鈥� retrouv茅
April 6, 2005 - Professor Antonia Maioni
The Welfare State and F.R. Scott鈥檚 Social Vision for Canada
April 2, 2003 - William Weintraub
Struggling to get published: the young Mordecai Richler
April 9, 2002 - The Honourable Fred Kaufman, C.M., Q.C.
Lessons from the Morin Inquiry: The Presumption of Innocence
March 27, 2001 - Professor Emeritus Charles Taylor
Canadian Duality: The Unresolved Conflict
March 14, 2000 - Professor Desmond Paul Morton
Poet as Party Manager: Frank Scott and the CCF
April 7, 1999 - Professor Peter C.W. Hoffmann
The German Resistance to Hitler and the Persecution of the Jews
April 21, 1998 - Dr. Eric Ormsby
Poetry as Isotope: The Hidden Life of Words
May 6, 1997 - Professor Stephen Toope
Cultural Diversity and Human Rights
May 8, 1996 - Professor Margaret Gillett
Women in the University: The Fourth Phase
April 5, 1995 - The Honorable Judge Alan B. Gold
The Arts are Everybody's Business
April 22, 1994 - Peter Dale Scott
F.R. Scott: Poetry and Politics
March 22, 1993 - Professor Irwin Cotler
The International Revolution in Human Rights
April 22, 1992 - Professor Louis Dudek
What Do You Have Against Myth?
May 21, 1991 - Stephen Lewis
Make This Your Canada, Part II
June 11, 1990 - Professor Leon Edel
Frank Scott and the Canadian Literary Renaissance
May 11, 1989
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