There is a dirty little secret about the law that Roger Song, recovered communist lawyer, knows all too well: lawyers can effectively change the laws just by changing the way they practise – by changing their “legal culture”. In Song’s … Read the rest The post The Law Society of Alberta’s Wokism Will Dissolve the Rule of Law appeared first on C2C Journal.| C2C Journal
Many Albertans want to be free. What do they mean? Do they mean free from Ottawa? From equalization, emission caps, single-use plastic regulations, and federal environmental assessment? Alberta has legitimate grievances against the intrusions of the federal government. But if … Read the rest The post Articles of Freedom: What the Constitution of an Independent Alberta Should Look Like appeared first on C2C Journal.| C2C Journal
Aimée Craft is an Anishinaabe-Métis lawyer from Treaty 1 territory in Manitoba. She is the founding director of research at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation and the director of research as the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Craft graduated from the University of Victoria ad began her work […]| The Scientific Detective
In late July CBC News reported that a Christian singer was to perform that week at the York Redoubt National Historic Site near Halifax. CBC’s Brett Ruskin got us up to speed. “Sean Feucht is a religious leader,” he told … Read the rest The post The Road to Censorship: How Canada Lost its Way on Freedom of Speech appeared first on C2C Journal.| C2C Journal
Sweden may have inflicted Greta Thunberg and her environmental hectoring on the world, but Canada is now making its own contribution to children’s activism. Ontario climate zealots have launched a court battle – with seven children and youth named as applicants – alleging the province’s modest rollback of its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets violates their Charter rights. Exploiting children is bad enough, but in this devastating critique, retired litigation lawyer Andrew Ro...| C2C Journal
Originally meant – and heavily marketed – as a low-cost, accessible means to protect the fundamental rights of individuals, Canada’s human rights commissions and tribunals have become a dangerous farce. Ruling on everything from workplace disputes to getting bumped from an airport lineup, they’ve degenerated into a means for the easily-offended to seek vengeance. That is when they’re not undermining the essential Charter-protected rights of all Canadians at the behest of aggrieved m...| C2C Journal
Many Canadians think of the Supreme Court as a wise and august body that can be trusted to give the final word on the country’s most important issues. But what happens when most of its justices get it wrong? Former government litigator Jack Wright delves into the court’s landmark ruling upholding the federal carbon tax and uncovers mistakes, shoddy reasoning and unfounded conclusions. In this exclusive legal analysis, Wright finds that the key climate-related contentions at the heart of t...| C2C Journal
