CategoryProperty and Civil Rights
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Continue Reading →: Assault on Rebel News Journalist Is an Assault on Journalism
Assault on Rebel News Journalist Is an Assault on Journalism
“We categorically condemn anyone who in any way intimidates and harasses journalists working in defence of the truth.” — Chrystia Freeland on May 3, 2018 The assault of David Menzies at the hands of a member of an RCMP security detail as Mr. Menzies was asking questions to an elected official has a few lessons for…
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Continue Reading →: Antisemitic Trends in Canada Strengthen Case for Israel’s Existence
Antisemitic Trends in Canada Strengthen Case for Israel’s Existence
A week ago, Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek boycotted an event marking Hannukah, a Jewish religious celebration. The mayor crassly blamed the local Jewish leadership for supposedly being political and divisive, which is in fact what Gondek did in rejecting their invitation. Few states have been established with as profound a moral imperative as the State…
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Continue Reading →: The Darkness Within: Moncton Mayor Rejects a Menorah
The Darkness Within: Moncton Mayor Rejects a Menorah
News that Dawn Arnold, the Mayor of Moncton, New Brunswick, has refused to display a menorah on city property this year, for the first time in two decades, has half the country shaking their heads in disbelief. Arnold claims that a menorah would violate the state’s neutrality toward religious faiths. But evidence shows plenty of Christian religious…
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Continue Reading →: Celebrating Freedom with Responsibility
Celebrating Freedom with Responsibility
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees the freedom of speech. The principle of free speech is a vital component of any democratic society that values individual liberty and open discourse. However, in this fostering of free speech, it is crucial to recognize that with this absolute right comes a responsibility to ensure…
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Continue Reading →: A Time for Clarity: “Never Again” Must Truly Mean Never Again.
A Time for Clarity: “Never Again” Must Truly Mean Never Again.
On September 13, 2001, the front page of the French newspaper Le Monde, one of the most widely read newspapers in that country, read: “Nous sommes tous américains,” (We are all Americans).1 It remains a grateful and moving piece, which I encourage everyone to read or re-read. Despite France’s troubled history with Jews and a sizeable Muslim…
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Continue Reading →: Rehabilitating the Charter of Rights
Rehabilitating the Charter of Rights
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms needs to be rehabilitated. The COVID-19 regime caused enormous damage to individual rights and their protections in Canada. But nothing is forever, and citizens and their governments can push for the Charter to be rehabilitated. That can be done by insisting that Charter rights are respected and enforced.…
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Continue Reading →: Woke inclusion opens gates to exclusion and division
Woke inclusion opens gates to exclusion and division
Canada’s federal government has cheerfully proclaimed June to September to be Pride Season. Beyond the commonplace vulgarity in pride parades, one reasonably perceives a push to include new identities. And generous Canadians are inclusive. But a push for inclusion is a push for power, and that makes inclusion a complex political beast. For starters, unless every person…
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Continue Reading →: The muddling gambit of a special rapporteur
The muddling gambit of a special rapporteur
It is not that there is a flaw in Trudeau’s proposal. It’s deliberate. In keeping with natural justice, one ought not be judge in one’s own cause, and one ought not choose a special individual, much less create a new position outside of the existing investigating officers in law enforcement, to investigate one’s misdeeds. It…
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Continue Reading →: Shandro gun announcement shows how Sovereignty works
Shandro gun announcement shows how Sovereignty works
In mid September (2022), Premier Jason Kenney openly disagreed with UCP leadership hopeful Danielle Smith over Smith’s proposed Alberta Sovereignty Act (ASA). Kenney said the legislation would be destabilising, unconstitutional and a disaster for Alberta. Kenney’s former principal secretary levelled similar accusations, which Kenney happily quoted: it should be called “the Alberta suicide act.” Kenney…
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Continue Reading →: Trudeau underestimates the Truckers’ Convoy and its significance
Trudeau underestimates the Truckers’ Convoy and its significance
the Trudeau government kicked a hornet’s nest when the prime minister began a trend of insults against those resisting his vaccine policies during the last election campaign. Trudeau mistook his return to a minority government as an unconditional endorsement to abuse vaccine skeptics.