Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: David Ebner
Publication Date: October 10, 2025 - 06:45
Formal fashion at the Supreme Court modernizes as justices don new black robes
October 10, 2025
For 150 years, judges of the Supreme Court of Canada have donned distinctive red robes trimmed with white fur – a judicial fashion whose earliest threads stretch back through centuries of British history to the reign of King Edward III in the 1300s.
But that changed this week. As part of the Supreme Court’s 150th anniversary this year, Chief Justice Richard Wagner and his colleagues on the country’s apex court debuted a new formal fashion for special occasions. The nine justices entered the courtroom in Ottawa on Monday in black silk robes, trimmed with two vertical bands of red.
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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney defended the roughly $700,000 salaries of the heads of the new federal Major Projects Office and Defence Investment Agency, noting they are taking a pay cut from the private sector while bearing “enormous” responsibilities.
Speaking to reporters during a pre-budget announcement in Ottawa Friday, Carney pooh-poohed any suggestion that the salaries offered to Dawn Farrell, the head of the Major Projects Office (MPO), and Douglas Guzman, the first CEO of the new Defence Investment Agency, were out of line with his government’s promise to tighten...
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