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Bio

Kristopher Kinsinger is an Ontario lawyer and the national director of the Runnymede Society. Kristopher received his Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Waterloo in 2016, where he majored in history in the Arts and Business co-op program. He graduated from Waterloo on the Dean’s Honours List and with the Departmental Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement as the top graduating student from the Department of History. In 2019, Kristopher received his Juris Doctor from Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, where he was awarded the Bora Laskin Prize at convocation for writing the best paper on the topic of law, religion and society. He articled with Miller Thomson LLP and was called to the Ontario bar in 2020. Kristopher completed his Master of Laws at McGill University’s Faculty of Law in 2021 on a Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, where he was also the recipient of the Pilarczyk Graduate Award in Law.

Kristopher currently serves as the managing editor of The A.V. Dicey Law Review, a legal journal jointly published by the Runnymede Society, LexisNexis, and Advocates for the Rule of Law. In addition to these roles, Kristopher is pursuing a broad-based litigation practice as counsel at Jordan Honickman Barristers in Toronto, and is completing a year-long NextGen Fellowship with the Cardus think tank. He also serves as the technology liaison and communications officer, respectively, of the Ontario Bar Association and Canadian Bar Association’s Constitutional and Human Rights Sections, as well as the assistant secretary on the the board of directors of Christian Legal Fellowship, Canada’s national association of Christian lawyers and law students. Kristopher is a member of Hespeler Baptist Church in Cambridge, where he currently serves as the deacon of administration.

In his free time, Kristopher can be found reading, writing, listening to vinyl, tweeting, hiking, drinking coffee, volunteering with his church’s youth group, or mapping out his next backcountry camping trip. He also dabbles in landscape, aerial and wildlife photography, and has recently begun experimenting with astrophotography.





“The arrest of Alberta pastor James Coates is a constitutional abnormality”, National Post, 23 February 2021

“What’s the Difference between Limiting and Infringing Rights and Freedoms?”, The Gospel Coalition Canada, 14 January 2021

“How Ontario’s COVID-19 rules restrict religious freedom”, National Post, 12 January 2021

“Conservatives should show leadership on Bill 21 and defend religious freedom”, Policy Options, 18 September 2020

“Government walking a constitutional tightrope as restrictions on peaceful assembly stretch on”, CBC News, 14 June 2020 (with Brian Bird)

“Religious expression is under attack in Canada - and not just in Quebec”, The Globe and Mail, 11 July 2019 (with Derek Ross)

“Quebec’s Bill 21 misapplies religious neutrality principle”, Policy Options, 7 May 2019

“Why Quebec’s Religious Symbols Ban Should Distress Christians”, The Gospel Coalition Canada, 23 April 2019

“Making doctors choose between their convictions and their calling”, Policy Options, 18 February 2019

“The government’s new criteria for summer jobs funding suffer from the same defining flaw as the old”, CBC News, 31 December 2018

“The TWU decision: five big questions”, The Lawyer’s Daily, 5 September 2018 (with Jonathan Martin)

“Tearing down the idol of religious freedom”, The Gospel Coalition Canada, 22 March 2018

“Job grants policy will exclude many religious groups”, The Ottawa Citizen, 18 January 2018

“TWU has Charter right to be distinct religious community”, The Vancouver Sun, 14 December 2017

“Pro-life groups are as free to fly their flags as other organizations”, National Post, 30 May 2017


Conferences and Panels

Moderator for 2020 Runnymede Conference Panel on Bill 21 and the Notwithstanding Clause