Where Activist Judges Play Fast & Loose With The Rule of Law
Civil Liberties
NCI Virtual Testimony – Dr. Peter McCullough
National Citizens Inquiry
Parents Must be Kept in The Loop About Their Children
It’s not often that New Brunswick makes the national news. It’s rarer still for a New Brunswick premier to become a Canadian household name. But that’s exactly what’s happened to Premier Blaine Higgs. Last month, New Brunswick’s education minister announced changes...
Meritocracy Or Mediocrity – Canada Must Choose
In “Civilization - The West and the Rest” historian Niall Ferguson asks why, from about 1500 AD, the West was able to rise from being a backwater of illiterate, unhygienic bumpkins to become the greatest civilization the world had ever seen. He suggests an answer: the...
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Sustaining a Pariah State: Pakistan’s Ignominious Alliance in Afghanistan
The United Nations (UN) was born out of an idea for creating a society of nations, a global community, a brotherhood of nations built on a set of higher ideals. These ideals would give rise to a global village with accountability to each other, including social...
The Endemic Path is the Way Out
The Alberta premier’s plan to treat the coronavirus as endemic was the way out of the COVID crisis. That he is once again adopting restrictions for the province, for the fourth time, does not negate the endemic approach. But his declaration, paraphrasing President...
The Subjection of Women: 21st Century-Style
The recent alleged “honour killings” in Kingston, Ontario are an unpleasant reminder that the emancipation of women envisioned by John Stuart Mill in the 19th century are not yet a reality for many women around the world.
Throttling the Internet: Wholesale Service Providers and the CRTC
Proposals being studied by the CRTC that would allow large ISPs to “throttle” internet traffic are more about controlling competition than preventing internet congestion.
Neo-Nazi Hate, Courtesy of the Canadian Human Rights Commission and Your Tax Dollars
It just get wackier at Canada’s human rights commissions. In her summer attempt to defend so-called human rights commissions and tribunals from their detractors, the head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Too bad the chief commissioner is being disingenuous about what the CHRC has been up to.
Local Councils Become Instrument Of Nanny State
Compounding the problem of meddling councillors is the even more insidious practice of local bureaucrats weighing into the debate. Somehow these unelected local officials believe that they have a right to impose their world view on the citizenry.
Gay Activists Plus Conservative Pastor: Thank Government for the Unnatural Pairing
The wrongly-named “human rights” bodies need to be scrapped; the real courts should deal with claims of discrimination, and not the fake pretend bodies with their wide-ranging and too-often abused and unchecked powers.
US State Considers Relaxing Smoking Ban
Bars and restaurants say they have lost up to a quarter of their takings since the law came into force in 2007.
The Rights Wheel of Fortune
Our human-rights commissions have made it easy to exploit the system. Too many of the cases they accept are frivolous or marginal, and too many of their decisions are, to most of us, absurd.
Commissions of Human Wrongs
In Canada, speech is policed by two parallel justice systems, which have significantly different rules of appointment, legislation, evidence and procedure.
Nigel Hannaford
On Human Rights Commissions and the need for drastic reforms.