Justice with John Carpay
202 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago -John Carpay, founder and president of The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, talks about the issues--legal, political and cultural--that concern him most. The Justice Centre (website jccf.ca) has been going strong for ten years, so there is a lot to discuss. With facilitator and producer Kevin Steel, each week John will bring you up to date on the latest, as well as provide insights about the law and the fight for freedom.
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S05E13 "Fare Thee Well" to Private Info
April 19, 2024 21:00 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBLawyer James Manson critiques Nova Scotia's new law allowing the government to access everyone's private medical information. He says it’s dangerous because it is so overbroad and ill-defined. Then he talks about a potential new case in which two public education teachers were fired for their religious beliefs. And we finish with an update on the Zexi Li et al v. Chris Barber et al lawsuit against the truckers for the 2022 Ottawa protest. LifeSite News, Apr 15, 2024: Nova Scotia passes law ...
Defending the "Religious Defense"
April 15, 2024 19:00 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBJohn Carpay and Kevin Steel discuss the attempt by the Bloc Québécois and special interest groups to remove the Criminal Code's Section 319(3) - "the religious defense" to accusations of hate speech. John argues that it will lead to the removal of certain portions of religious texts in Canada. Would this proposed amendment result in the outlawing of all kinds of religious belief? We also discuss John's column on unvaccinated medical professionals still being barred from working in Ontario an...
S05E11 And the winner is
April 03, 2024 18:00 - 58 minutes - 39.9 MBIn this week's Justice with John podcast, John announces the winner of the Justice Centre's annual George Jonas Freedom Award. Later, John talks about what led him to write a column on the rise in school absenteeism in Canada. We also discuss an op-ed in the Toronto Star supporting the Online Harms Act. The show ends with a bonus clip from 2008 in which we hear our 2024 George Jonas Freedom Award recipient address a controversial issue in defense of free speech. Justice Centre: George Jonas...
S05E10 Fired for Defending Freedom
March 28, 2024 17:00 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MBLawyer Marty Moore discusses the firing of a library CEO in an Ontario town, let go after she published an opinion piece in the local paper defending freedom to read, diversity of opinion, and neutrality in library collections. The board that fired her, in a supposed effort to provide a "safe" space for everyone, did so in violation of their own policy. Cathy Simpson in Niagara Now, Feb 21, 2024: Censorship and what we are allowed to read Niagara Now, Mar 21, 2024: NOTL’s chief librarian f...
S05E09 Manifestly, Supremely Strange
March 19, 2024 22:00 - 1 hour - 43.2 MBOur show this week concentrates on the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC). We were triggered by the strange take on a sexual assault case from Justice Sheila Martin, who took issue with the word "woman." Then John reads out a few woke posts from the Court's X account. We also go over an excellent column on the SCC by Barry W. Bussey in The Epoch Times, and we review the Court's decision not to hear the Justice Centre's Manitoba lockdown challenge. A few sympathetic words are reserved for the Chie...
S05E08 Bitter Fruit and Flowers
March 12, 2024 22:00 - 58 minutes - 39.9 MBWe have arrived at the fourth anniversary of the Covid pandemic and the implementation of draconian restrictions throughout Canada. Traditionally, the fourth anniversary is celebrated with fruit and flowers, however this is something of a bitter celebration as some repressive measures continue. What, if anything, have we learned? For one thing, we learned that it is easy to rule by fear. We also convey a Justice Centre message for International Women's Day. We look at a Radio Canada story a...
S05E07 The Blurry Lines of Online Harm
March 07, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 41.6 MBJohn takes us through his critique of the proposed federal Online Harms Act. While acknowledging some good in it, he notes that most of that good is duplication of existing laws, while the bad is, in his words, "the worst attack on free speech in modern Canadian history." The federal government is using "safety" as the justification, and their main target is "hate speech." The government says it wants to bring the law in line with the Supreme Court, but John demonstrates how even that court ...
S05E06 Quebec Awakens to Woke
March 05, 2024 16:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBQuebec lawyer and Director of French Canada for the Justice Centre Olivier Séguin tells us about a case where a teacher is suing the provincial government to get rid of its guide on transgender issues for schools. The teacher had been ordered by her to school administration to hide a 14-year-old's female-to-male social transition from her parents. The school thought it was following the law, but the Ministry of Education's guide appears to be misleading. Mr. Séguin gives some context as to h...
S05E05 A Sea Change on the Horizon?
February 22, 2024 13:00 - 59 minutes - 41.2 MBLawyer Marty Moore gives us a round-up of court cases involving gender issues and parental rights across Canada. Starting in New Brunswick, the fight moved west to Saskatchewan and then into Alberta with new policy announcements by Premier Danielle Smith. Court challenges in Alberta, he believes, are inevitable. If the province opts to use the Notwithstanding Clause, as the government did in Saskatchewan, there is a potential for a sea change in how constitutional questions are settled, as m...
S05E04 B.C.'s Cancel Culture Collision
February 13, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour - 43.4 MBJohn starts the show by discussing the kerfuffle around Selina Robinson, forced to resign from the provincial cabinet in British Columbia for remarks about Israel pre-1948. It was a collision of outrage and cancel culture. Everyone involved failed, including Robinson and the mainstream media. Free speech and accurate reporting were completely ignored. We move on to other stories with similar themes, about media bias, free speech on campus, and we finish up with Danielle Smith's transgender p...
S05E03 Report on the Jonker Hearing
February 05, 2024 23:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBLawyer James Manson discusses the hearing for Harold Jonker on Tuesday, January 30. Mr. Jonker is a trucker and a former town counsellor who was penalized by his Township for attending the Freedom Convoy. Mr. Manson says he's pleased because he felt Mr. Jonker received a fair hearing. We speculate about the positive influence on the country following the recent ruling that the Emergencies Act was an unlawful response to the Freedom Convoy. Justice Centre, Sep 26, 2022: Harold Jonker v. The ...
S05E02 Not Justified
January 29, 2024 20:00 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBJohn gives us a brief account of his experience introducing Tucker Carlson at Rogers Place in Edmonton the evening of January 24th. Then we turn to the big ruling from the Federal Court in the Emergencies Act case that determined "the decision to issue the Proclamation was unreasonable and led to infringement of Charter rights not justified under section 1," (to quote from Justice Mosley's decision). Many contributed to this victory. The big winners are the Canadian people. Rebel News, Jan ...
S05E01 A Good Start to the Year
January 23, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour - 44.6 MBWe open the new season with a discussion of three recent Justice Centre victories: 1) The Michal Princ case in Alberta where a doctor was accused of professional misconduct for providing Covid vaccine exemptions, 2) the Leah McInnes case. Leah, a Saskatchewan nurse, who had been accused of unprofessional conduct because she protested—both in the streets and on social media—against lockdowns and vaccine mandates, and 3) an ArriveCAN ticket case in Ontario. The ticket case has ties, in spirit,...
S04E44 Year in Review 2023
December 29, 2023 13:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBJohn takes an in-depth look at last month's Hillier ruling, in which the judge ignored the plaintiffs’ expert report. Then, after giving us the reasons we need to keep taking governments to court, he lists the Justice Centre's many achievements in 2023. Justice Centre, Nov 27, 2023: Judge ignores evidence of lockdown harms when justifying Charter violations CanLII, Feb 28, 2022: Ontario v. Trinity Bible Chapel et al, 2022 ONSC 1344 More from the Justice Centre, 2023: Jul 27: Hearing for ...
S04E43 Changing Course to a Better Future
December 14, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBJohn tells us about his experience at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) Conference in London, England, at the beginning of November. He took a lot of notes over the three days and shares some of his observations. Later, we discuss the Chris Barber/Tamara Lich trial. Alliance for Responsible Citizenship Forum The ARC Conference YouTube page Britannica: medieval warm period Matt Walsh on YouTube, Dec 10, 2023: The Victim Hierarchy Reuters via MSN, Dec 11, 2023: University of...
S04E42 Delays, Redactions and Lack of Disclosure
November 07, 2023 21:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBLawyer Marty Moore takes us through some of the latest cases at the Justice Centre, starting with a victory in court for peaceful protestor Evan Blackman who was arrested in Ottawa Feb 18, 2022, and facing criminal charges. We discuss the lack of disclosure and ubiquity of redactions from the Crown in other cases, especially when these manoeuvres drag out court proceedings. Justice Centre, Oct 24. 2023: All charges dismissed against Ottawa protestor LifeSite News, Oct 25, 2023: Charges dro...
S04E41 The Injustice of a Woke Justice
October 24, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBIn a follow up to our January 16 podcast (S04E02 Another Institution Captured?), lawyer Glenn Blackett goes over the latest from the Law Society of Alberta, a Professional Development Profile. It is, he says, full of "woke" concepts that threaten to undermine the rule of law. This past summer, an informal group of lawyers sent an open letter to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to alert the government about the situation. Justice with John Carpay Podcast, Jan 16, 2023: S04E02 Another Instituti...
S04E40 Free Speech in Peril
October 17, 2023 22:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBJohn talks about his recent column in The Epoch Times in which he applauds the Saskatchewan government for invoking the notwithstanding clause on the parental rights issue. We then discuss the case of Saskatchewan nurse Leah McInnes who’s being targeted by her professional college, and the parallels with her case to others across the country. At about the halfway point we get to our main topic; the danger to free expression from the CRTC as it requires online streaming services to register w...
S04E39 Chilliwack Trustees Hit Mute
October 11, 2023 16:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBLawyer Marty Moore takes us through a new case he's recently filed in BC about censorship at a Chilliwack School Trustee meeting in June. The client, he says, had her free expression rights violated four times in two minutes. And he takes note of a recent decision in the BC Court of Appeal where they ruled that a vaccine passport mandate case will proceed to trial. Marty says he hopes this will provide the Federal Court of Appeal some guidance as they consider the Peckford appeal on the fede...
S04E38 A Calgary Fireside Chat
October 04, 2023 15:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MBDr. Jay Bhattacharya and Rav Arora join John Carpay on stage for a fireside chat during the George Jonas Freedom Award dinner in Calgary on September 28. They discuss the free speech lawsuit that involves Dr. Bhattacharya, Missouri v. Biden. They also talk about the failure of the Canadian government bills C18 and C10, and the fall of the mainstream media with the corresponding rise of new media. The Illusion of Consensus Justice Centre, Jun 23, 2021: Lockdowns and the Science of Covid, Dr...
S04E37 The Brisco Donation Appeal
September 26, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBLawyer James Manson takes us through the case of Constable Michael Brisco, who was found guilty of Discreditable Conduct by the Windsor Police Service after making a $50 donation to the Freedom Convoy in 2022. The Justice Centre is funding Brisco's appeal, and the Appellant's Factum was filed just last week. Justice Centre, Jun 1, 2023: Windsor Constable appealing conviction for Freedom Convoy donation: Brisco v. The Windsor Police Service Constable Michael Brisco's Notice of Appeal, Jun 1...
S04E36 Return of the Masked CPHO
September 18, 2023 20:00 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBJohn gives us an update on his recent trip to British Columbia to meet with Justice Centre supporters there. Then we give a shout-out to Dr. Kulvinder Kaur Gill; the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has dropped their disciplinary proceedings against her, a victory for medical freedom. This leads to a discussion about Canada's Chief Public Health Officer (CPHO) Theresa Tam and her recent press conference urging more masking and more vaccinations. Justice Centre, Sep 12, 2023: Br...
S04E35 The Perils of Intellectual Laziness
September 12, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBWe begin by going through a recent John Carpay column in The Epoch Times: "The Danger of Intellectual Laziness: How Albert Speer Became a Nazi." Then we examine the originating application in the Egale lawsuit against the Saskatchewan government over parental notification for gender transitions in children under 16. Finally, we discuss the trial of Chris Barber and Tamara Lich. John Carpay in The Epoch Times, Sep 9, 2023: The Danger of Intellectual Laziness: How Albert Speer Became a Nazi ...
S04E34 So Much Winning
September 06, 2023 15:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBJohn tells us about the recent Justice Centre victories. Then we comment on this year's George Jonas Freedom Award winner Jordan Peterson and his recent loss in an Ontario court. He's being ordered to attend social media thought control classes. Finally, we revisit the Egale lawsuit against the Saskatchewan government for making it mandatory to inform parents if their children chose to undergo gender transition. John Carpay in the Western Standard via The Justice Centre, Aug 2, 2023: A win ...
S04E32 Politics and the Judicial Class
August 21, 2023 14:00 - 55 minutes - 38.3 MBWe look at recent research showing that a majority of judges who donated to political parties, prior to their appointment, directed their money to the Liberal Party of Canada. We then discuss a column in The National Post by Jay Bhattacharya and Leighton Grey commenting on Alberta's Ingram decision, in which they level some pointed criticism at the judge. Kate Schneider and Christopher Nardi in The National Post, Aug 9, 2023: Trudeau's law society: Exclusive data analysis reveals Liberals a...
S04E31 Vaccine Mandates, EI, and Charter Rights
August 15, 2023 20:00 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MBLawyer James Manson describes and explains the issues in the Robin Francis EI case, now headed to the Federal Court of Appeal. Mr. Francis was fired after he refused to follow his employer's vaccine mandate and was then denied Employment Insurance benefits, like so many other Canadians who asserted their Charter rights. Justice Centre, Mar 27, 2023: Francis v. Canada (AG) Justice Centre, Mar 27, 2023: Ontario father takes denial of EI benefits for not taking Covid-19 vaccine to Federal Cou...
S04E30 Anti-SLAPP in a Nuisance Suit
August 08, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 42.5 MBLawyer James Manson takes us through an anti-SLAPP motion he filed in the $300 million lawsuit against Freedom Convoy protestors and donors. He explains why in this instance--a class action nuisance lawsuit--an anti-SLAPP motion is unique. But it fits here because the case involves free expression on issues of public policy. And it was for cases of free expression on issues of public policy that anti-SLAPP legislation was written. Justice Centre, Feb 16, 2023: Zexi Li et al v. Chris Barber ...
S04E29 The Widdowson Case
August 01, 2023 19:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MBJohn takes us through a new Justice Centre case that's being filed on behalf of Prof. Frances Widdowson against the University of Lethbridge. Last winter the institution shut down one of her lectures. This is an example of how wokeism damages not only the reputation of the cancelled target, but of the institution itself because their action contradicts their stated principles of academic freedom and free inquiry. An interesting footnote; cancel culture in academia was the subject of Widdowso...
S04E28 Over 500 Days and No Bail
July 24, 2023 16:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBWe discuss the Coutts Four who have spent over 500 days in jail without bail awaiting trial on conspiracy to murder and weapons charges after the Coutts border protest last year. Some are now calling them political prisoners. Then we dive into the debate over the potential criminalization of Residential School "denialism." And we end with an examination of remarks made by a judge while convicting a man of not wearing a mask on a plane during the Covid panic. Gord MaGill in Newsweek, Jul 13,...
S04E27 The Affirmative Action Case
July 17, 2023 18:00 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MBIn what might be called US Supreme Court decisions Part 2, lawyer Marty Moore follows last week's episode on the Creative LLC USSC ruling with a review of the affirmative action ruling issued at roughly the same time. The case itself will have little impact on Canada because we have embedded affirmative action in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Supreme Court of the United States: Opinions of the Court Supreme Court of the United States, Jun 29, 2023: Students for Fair Admissions, Inc....
S04E26 The Creative Case
July 10, 2023 17:00 - 55 minutes - 37.9 MBLawyer Marty Moore explores the US Supreme Court's reasoning in the Creative LLC versus Colorado decision. Is it, as the mainstream media claimed, a blow against gay rights? Is it a victory for freedom of expression? Marty also draws an interesting parallel between this current US ruling and a Canadian case from over 20 years ago. Supreme Court of the United States: Opinions of the Court Supreme Court of the United States, Jun 30, 2023 (PDF): 303 Creative LLC et al v. Elenis et al. Just...
S04E25 Reclaiming Parental Rights
July 04, 2023 16:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBMarty Moore discusses a parent's right to know what is happening to their child in school. This follows a story out of Lumsden, Saskatchewan, which resulted in the education minister suspending Planned Parenthood from giving sex ed presentations in schools. Marty reads from anonymized affidavits of girls and boys, filed in Alberta's Bill 24 case from a few years ago. These are quite relevant today in the debate about sexual education, gender identity and parental rights. SaskToday, Jun 22, ...
S04E24 Justice Brown Out
June 27, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBWe look at the circumstances surrounding the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown, who stepped down at the beginning of June to end a Canadian Judicial Council investigation. John says the loss of this judge will negatively impact the country's top court. And we also discuss Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Wagner's recent complaint that the media is showing very much interest in the courts these days. Leonid Sirota in The National Post, Jun 21, 2023: Image-conscious Supreme...
S04E23 Lowering the Bar for Hate Speech?
June 19, 2023 14:00 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MBLawyer Marty Moore outlines an important hate speech case going before the Ontario Court of Appeal on June 21. The Crown is arguing that the trial judge, who acquitted protestor Bill Whatcott, makes it too hard to convict Canadians who express their opinions about sexual behaviour they disagree with. The Justice Centre represents an intervenor who argues that criticizing sexual behaviour is not the same as advocating for genocide. Justice Centre, May 15, 2023: Advocacy against gay sex equat...
S04E22 Covid Panic Flashbacks
June 13, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 42.7 MBJohn talks about some concerns he has about an action committee established back in May 2020 to assist Canada's court systems with health and safety. We then tackle other issues like the sad case of Sheila Lewis, a study on the negative impacts of lockdowns, a column about equating speech with violence, and Tucker Carlson's new media show on Twitter. Western Standard, Jun 8, 2023: Canada’s top judge and federal justice minister co-chaired COVID committee for years Canadian Lawyer Magazine,...
S04E21 A Right to Donate
June 05, 2023 19:00 - 56 minutes - 39.2 MBWe open with the case of Constable Michael Brisco of the Windsor Police Service. With the help of the Justice Centre, he is appealing his conviction for Discreditable Conduct resulting from his donation to the Freedom Convoy. There follows a discussion about free speech and the elites, and a review of the Canada Day fireworks controversies in cities across the country. We finish by parsing a recent column and court case that suggest the era of the courts reading new rights into the Charter i...
S04E20 A Case for All Regulated Professions
May 29, 2023 17:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBLawyer Lisa Bildy (Twitter @LDBildy) joins Kevin to discuss Amy Hamm's case. Supported by the Justice Centre, Lisa has been defending the BC nurse against charges from her regulatory body, the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives, over her gender critical views. Later, Lisa talks about the recent Ontario Law Society bencher elections where her slate--running on a platform opposing financial bloat, mission creep and wokeness--lost to a group of establishment candidates. Justice Ce...
S04E19 Manufacturing Hate
May 23, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBJohn discusses his latest column on Carolyn Burjoski, followed by commentary on the arrest of teenager Josh Alexander in Calgary. That brings us to the subject of the hate industry in Canada and the US. We finish with topics like the Rebel News's CBC-Twitter exposé, Linda Frum's victory in court, and remarks from US Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. John Carpay in The Justice Centre, May 17, 2023: Free-speech teacher fights back against a woke school board Justice Centre, Jan 10, 2023: J...
S04E18 The Cultural Rot Continues
May 15, 2023 22:00 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MBWe begin with an article that states 1 in 4 Canadians support euthanasia for the poor and homeless. Then, on the topic of appointing enough judges, John finds himself in complete agreement with Canada's Supreme Court Chief Justice. And we finish on the subject of free speech which revolves around an article titled, "The Censorship-Industrial Complex." Daniel Greenfield in Front Page Magazine, May 8, 2023: 1 in 4 Canadians Agree With Euthanizing the Poor--Among those 18-34, 40% support death...
S04E17 Recommendations and a Petition
May 08, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBJohn reviews some of the things he heard and said at the National Citizens Inquiry into Canada's Response to Covid-19 in Red Deer where, in his testimony, he put 18 recommendations on the record. He then tells us about a new Justice Centre petition to lobby the federal government into limiting the use of digital IDs. We discuss the global attack on free speech, and finish up by looking at a new report on the poor economic recovery, following the pandemic restrictions, in downtowns across Nor...
S04E16 Push Back on Wokeism
April 25, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 42.3 MBWe begin with an excerpt from a Justice Centre video in which our client, school trustee Linda Stone, explains why she is suing the Durham District School Board. John explains why he sees this as an important case. Then we discuss the politicization of the legal profession with reference to the Ontario Law Society bencher elections. Finally, John gives us a preview of his presentation to the National Citizens Inquiry into Canada's Response to Covid-19 in Red Deer on Apr 28. Justice Centre, ...
S04E15 Digital ID: The Good and the Bad
April 18, 2023 20:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBWe discuss the Justice Centre report "Digital ID, Surveillance, and the Value of Privacy" by our Education Programs Coordinator Luke Neilson. The report makes a distinction between the benefits of some types of digital IDs--like better authentication of a person's identity--and more invasive types that collect and centralize large amounts of personal information which may be abused. Later in the show we shine a spotlight on the National Citizen's Inquiry into Canada's Covid-19 response. Jus...
S04E14 John in Quebec
April 12, 2023 17:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MBJohn visited Quebec last week to meet with Justice Centre supporters there. Then we move on to the subject of protest bubble zones around drag events as they are being proposed by the Ontario NDP. Following that, John announces a new Justice Centre case that’s about to be filed. And then we talk about the dubious dodge where bureaucrats say they are unable to comment, or provide further information, on something because it is "before the courts." CTV News, Apr 8, 2023: Hundreds of thousands...
S04E13 Freedom and Courage 2023
April 03, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBJohn announces the 2023 recipient of the Justice Centre's annual George Jonas Freedom Award. He gives a history of the award and explains the reasons this year's winner was chosen. Later in the show we discuss how governments are getting desperate as their attempts to limit rights--particularly free speech on the internet--get rapidly exposed by citizens who no longer fear speaking out. Justice Centre: 2023 George Jonas Freedom Award Amazon.ca: Beethoven's Mask by George Jonas Amazon.ca: ...
S04E12 Untimely Injustice
March 28, 2023 21:00 - 54 minutes - 37.8 MBWe tackle the topic of delays in the justice system from a different angle. There is evidence that the problem is more than inadequate funding. John grants this may be true and, citing Canadian health care as an example, observes that fixing large government systems can take a very long time. Then we look beyond the Charter in the Jost case. Several rights violations are cited in this challenge to the invocation of the Emergency Act. Some are from documents other than the Canadian Charter of...
S04E11 Competing Rights and Accommodations
March 20, 2023 23:00 - 53 minutes - 37.1 MBLawyer Allison Pejovic joins Kevin to discuss the issues involving the trans community in the City of Calgary, particularly concerning the access to women's change rooms and bathrooms by pre-surgery trans versus the rights of women and children to female-only safe spaces. Allison describes an Ontario human rights case she is involved with from 2020, Yaniv v. Canada Galaxy Pageants, a similar issue, that has yet to be adjudicated. Global News, Mar 4, 2023: Protests continue in Calgary over c...
S04E10 They Show Their Hand
March 14, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 41.6 MBWe cover four subjects, starting with an update on the City of Calgary and its latest bylaw to curtail free expression. Then we talk about Bill C-11, an attempt by the federal government to gain control over speech on the internet using the CRTC. From there we move on to the subject of de-banking to try and determine if there are any rights violations. We finish with a discussion of 15-minute cities and their potential to limit mobility. Community Services Report to Regular Meeting of Counc...
S04E09 Still Keeping Us "Safe"
March 07, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBJohn gives his take on the City of Calgary's street harassment bylaw in the wake of protests against drag queen story hour in public libraries. No government takes away rights without promising something in return, and here they are promising—yet again—"safety." In the last ten minutes, John and Kevin discuss the news that the Chinese government has been interfering in Canadian elections, and they try to determine whether there are any Charter issues involved. Mirror, Mar 5, 2023: WhatsApps...
S04E08 On to the Covid Commissions
February 28, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 43.8 MBA tweet has been going around that lists the many things authorities got wrong during the pandemic. Kevin and John use this to kick off a discussion about what questions a public Covid commission, like the one Alberta, should be asking. As John notes, the Justice Centre has produced a number of expert reports for various court challenges that could prove useful. Justin Hart on Twitter, Feb 23, 2023: "To repeat. They. Got. EVERYTHING. Wrong..." Globe and Mail, Jan 19, 2023: Preston Manning ...
S04E07 Not a Great Day for Canada
February 22, 2023 15:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBJohn takes a look through the first volume of the Public Order Emergency Commission's report–released on February 17. He finds evidence of bias from the authors, particularly when writing about the beliefs of the protestors, which, John says, should have no relevance on whether the invocation of the Emergencies Act was justified. At the end of the show, John focuses on the report's Recommendation 53, which he calls a frontal assault on free speech in Canada. Public Order Emergency Commissio...