This is a scandalous verdict by the SCOC (6 to 3) on the Manitoba case brought by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms on behalf The Gateway Baptist Church challenging the closure of churches and restricting outdoor assembly. The JCCF in their reaction to...
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Supreme Court Must Close Restoule Decision’s Open Floodgates
On December 21st, 2018, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, in its unprecedented, de-stabilizing Restoule vs. Ontario and Canada decision, where all these causes came into play, ruled that Canada and Ontario were liable- 50-50- to pay to 21 rent-seeking Ontario...
Wokeism vs. Classical Liberal Truth-Based Order at the Root of Online Harms Bill Debate
Wokeism versus the classical liberal truth-based order is what the discussion on the Online Harms Bill, C-63, is really about. Although some see it as a plot to undermine free speech, it may actually represent the legitimate view of progressives—wokeism—to promote...
Canada’s Obligations Under International Human Rights Law
National Citizens Inquiry
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Weaponizing the Law
The indictment of former U.S. president Donald Trump for crimes invented by his political opponents is the most egregious example yet seen of the weaponizing of the law. The United States is now full of examples. However, in Canada, we also see the law being...
“Looking At” Seizing Control Over Western Canada’s Natural Resources
OTTAWA, REGINA - Last week, two things happened that could have profound impacts on natural resources development in Saskatchewan. One is a hint the federal government might want to take control of natural resources away from the provinces, and the other is the...
Frontier Live on X – Has Law In Canada Lost Its Way – With Bruce Pardy
Big Topics & Big Ideas
Leaders On The Frontier – Ideology and the Law – With Bruce Pardy
Big Topics & Big Ideas
A Brief and Selective Summary of The Arguments to The Supreme Court of Canada in The Restoule Case
Ontario’s appeal of the Restoule Court of Appeal decision was argued before a full panel of the Supreme Court of Canada on November 7th and 8th, 2023. The writer was present in the courtroom. Ontario was the only appellant. Canada supported the position of the treaty...
Shooting the Messenger with Blanks
In a recent Winnipeg Free Press column, Niigaan Sinclair argues that some people are exploiting mistakes in reportage on the claims of missing children at former Indian Residential Schools (IRS).In fact, Sinclair claims: “By pointing out mistakes in media coverage,...
The Coutts Four and Denial of Bail in Canada
Jerry Morin, Chris Carbert, Chris Lysak and Anthony Olienick
Fighting Crime With Socialist Utopianism
In a recent op-ed in the Winnipeg Free Press, associate professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Winnipeg, Kelly Gorkof, an associate professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Winnipeg, argued that the traditional idea of fighting crime is...
A Commentary On The Restoule Case As It Comes Before The Supreme Court Of Canada
On November 7th and 8th , 2023, several important legal and fiscal issues will be argued before the Supreme Court of Canada in the Crown-Indigenous rights case: Restoule vs. Ontario and Canada. The main issue is whether the 19 th century treaties that Great Britain...
Canadian Military Decimated: Catherine Christensen Interview
National Citizens Inquiry
Book Review – The 1867 Project
Book Review – Symposium – Reviewing The 1867 Project (3 of 3)