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Grandma Sues Chilliwack School Board

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announces that Chilliwack Board of School Trustees (the “Board”) has been sued for censoring and ultimately ending the public remarks of a Chilliwack grandmother at a public school board meeting on June 13, 2023. 

Emergencies Act Court Challenge by the Canadian Constitution Foundation

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19 Ontario Cops Side With Religious Freedoms and Constitutional Liberty over COVID Lockdowns

In a refreshing change from COVID cops arresting pastors for preaching the Gospel, a group of 19 serving and former police officers are challenging the constitutionality of Ontario’s COVID restrictions.

They claim enforcing COVID lockdown and public gathering restrictions forces them to breach their oath to uphold the constitution. [Please read the Court Filing (PDF)]

Jason Kenney: Alberta’s King of COVID and Master of Tone-Deaf Hypocrisy

The same day he ordered a Calgary SWAT team to perform a ‘high-risk takedown’ of Pastor Artur Pawlowski in the middle of a busy Alberta highway [Watch Arrest Video], Jason Kenney had the audacity to Tweet:

Today is an important commemoration of one of the greatest victories in the history of human freedom, the day when Canadian troops in Europe joined their allies in celebrating total victory and the complete surrender of the Nazi German regime.

Let’s rededicate ourselves to remembering those who made the ultimate sacrifice to ensure that future generations know about the central role that Canada played in that critical victory in Europe 76 years ago.

Who Should We Fear More: Christian Pastor James Coates or Registered Child Sex Offender Cyle Larsen?

Erin Coates is incredibly eloquent in her defence of her husband and her church.

John Carpay delivers an excellent overview of the constitutional issues arising from the imprisonment of Pastor James Coates, and Danielle Smith asks all the right questions of both of them.

Bonnie Henry’s Health Orders Stand Trial on March 1st

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms’ lawsuit against public health orders issued by Dr. Bonnie Henry will be heard before BC Chief Justice Hinkson on March 1–3, 2021 at the Supreme Court in Vancouver.

Brodie Curtis Young: RCMP Screwup Sets Another Career Criminal With a Firearms Prohibition Order Free

Brodie Curtis Young, a career criminal with a firearms prohibition order against him, was caught with illegal firearms and ammunition. Had RCMP Constable Rick Marshinew not shredded Young’s Charter rights, Young would be in prison today, not walking free to violate his firearms prohibition order again.

Ray Newman: Alleged Murderer Walked Free After Police Violate His Charter Rights

When police violate the Charter rights of an accused, there is a price to pay. That price, in Chrissy Predham-Newman’s case, is her alleged murderer, her estranged husband, walked out of court a free man.

Justin Trudeau and the COVID-19 Crisis: How Invoking the Emergencies Act Could Affect You, Your Family and Your Liberty

If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declares a national emergency, he would invoke sweeping powers no other prime minister in history has used outside of wartime, with the exception of his father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
Whether this is a good or a bad thing probably depends on your opinion of government in general, and of the current government in specific.

The Broken Promise that is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

The Broken Promise that is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by Tim McNamara I am a Canadian citizen, born in Canada in an era before common sense was replaced by political correctness, before lawyers made stupidity a defense…

Canada’s Supreme Court Issues Ruling on Computer and Cell Phone Searches

The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) ruling, R. v. Vu, found that RCMP members violated Thanh Long Vu’s Charter Rights and Freedoms when they executed a search warrant on Vu’s Langley, BC, home in 2007. Despite finding that Vu’s rights…

Unreasonable Search and Seizure – Will We Force DNA Samples from people simply for being arrested?

For a “conservative” government Stephen Harper’s Conservatives continue to prove they don’t know the meaning of the word. Justice Minister Peter MacKay spoke publicly about the issue of forcing people to provide DNA samples upon arrest and he thinks it’s…

Government of Canada poised to steal bank accounts, just like Cyprus did, in event of banking collapse

One year ago the island state of Cypress stole money from its citizens and gave it to major bank, one of which folded anyway. Calling the theft “a necessary measure” to keep the state economically viable, politicians rewarded the very…

[Video] High River RCMP Dog and Pony Show

RCMP in High River, Alberta, broke into the homes of evacuated residents and seized every firearm that wasn’t bolted down or locked in a safe, claiming “public safety”. These criminals with badges and guns must lose their jobs and face…

RCMP Commissioner Robert Paulson Finally Speaks to High River RCMP Gun Thefts

It took over a week but RCMP Commissioner Robert Paulson finally came out of hiding to face Canadians about the criminal actions of his force in High River, Alberta. Well, he didn’t actually come out of hiding to face Canadians. …

RCMP Violates Property Rights of High River Flood Victims, Searches Homes and Seizes Their Firearms Without Warrant

It’s a story we’ve seen too many times before… the RCMP willingly and completely without legal justification searches homes without a warrant and seizes firearms “for the public good”.  No crime is alleged or presumed, just the same tired old…

Prince Rupert School District Despises Freedom of Speech; Orders Teachers to Remove T-Shirts Promoting Section 2(b) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Imagine it… a school district, supposedly in charge of educating our children, deems the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to be “inappropriate”. No, I am not making this up. Prince Rupert School District No. 52 recently banned teachers from…

Ontario Crown comes to its senses? Crown doesn’t appeal, Ian Thomson gets guns back

On February 8th, 2013 it was reported on Lilley’s Pad, Sun TV commentator Brian Lilley’s website, that Ian Thomson got his firearms back from the Ontario Provincial Police.  That’s good news, as it means the Ontario Attorney General’s office has…

Marc Lemire Case: the latest attack on Freedom of Speech by the Canadian Human Rights Commission

  [powerpress]   I had a long conversation with Marc Lemire on Wednesday evening, December 19, 2012. For those not familiar with his name, Marc Lemire is the one and only man to ever win a case against the Canadian…

Your Right to be Free of Unreasonable Search and Seizure does not apply in bars or other private establishments

A 2005 court ruling by the Alberta Court of Appeal makes it clear that bar staff of a privately-owned business cannot be considered “agents of the state” when they detain and search you on private property. The decision in R….

Mass Hysteria: Government’s Age-Old Boogeyman by Jane Gaffin

Has the world suddenly gone bonkers? Well, no. The world seemingly has been afflicted with mass insanity since time immemorial. Hi-tech toys merely allow the madness to be refined. Eavesdropping on every telephone conversation, snooping into every e-mail message, cameras…

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Freedoms: Yours Until They Are Stolen by Jane Gaffin

People don’t give a whit about freedom as long as they naively believe the government is not goring their ox, which, they painfully discover with time, it was their own personal inalienable rights that were stealthily chipped away in silence…

Hypocrisy Gone Wild: Niagara Regional Police Constable Nathan Parker files Human Rights complaint after being disciplined for police brutality

As astounding and incomprehensible as it sounds, a Niagara Regional Police Constable who went berserk on a cyclist on May 6, 2008 filed a human rights complaint against his superiors because they hurt his feelings. Constable Nathan Parker, who has…

Ezra Levant’s 5-Point Plan to eradicate the Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council and Section 5 of the Canadian Television Broadcasting Regulations

On the June 18, 2012 edition of The Source, host Ezra Levant put forward his 5-point plan to rid Canada of the Canadian Censors Council, or as they like to call themselves, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC). As I…

And in British Columbia the Legalization of Killing Continues…

With the recent decision of a B.C. Supreme Court judge, that province inched one step closer to creating a macabre open season on human beings. In a strange twist of logic, Supreme Court Justice Lynn Smith ruled that the provisions…

Judge to RCMP: Citizens have Rights. You violated them. Case Dismissed.

In what is becoming a trend across Canada, judges are having less and less patience with police forces who illegally search a person’s vehicle, residence or person.  The latest case involves two people who [allegedly] have known gang affiliations in…

Can you get fired for wearing a symbol of your faith to work? Only if it’s a Christian symbol…

The government of Britain is about to argue before the European Court of Human Rights that because the cross or crucifix is not a “requirement” of the Christian faith, wearing a cross to work is grounds for dismissal from your…

Lawyer Solomon Friedman hits a home run before the Canadian Senate

I’d happily add my 2 cents worth to what Mr. Solomon says in the video below, but then I would be robbing you of the opportunity to listen to someone who, on a daily basis, has been battling the stupid…

Withdraw from the UN’s Agenda 21. It’s easy. Just follow the lead of College Station, Texas.

Jane Gaffin wrote a great article about the United Nations’ Agenda 21 the other day titled Everybody Has Heard of Agenda 21; Most Just Don’t Know It.  After reading that I stumbled upon an article about a city in Texas…

Bill 36: Stripping Property Rights from Albertans

Alison Redford’s so-called conservative government’s decision to implement Bill C-36, The Land Stewardship Act, which effectively gives control of all land in Alberta to the provincial government, is a death blow to property rights in Alberta. Under this law, government…