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Free Speech under attack!
Here’s something I didn’t know 24 hours ago. Did you know that it is illegal for anyone in the National Capital Region to use the term “Parliament Hill” to…
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10 posts in Canadian Policy from Stephen Taylor's archive of Canadian political commentary.
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How about those mandatory minimums?
CP reports, MONTREAL – After preying on 285 young girls, and getting them to remove their clothes in front of their computer, a convicted cyber-predator…
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Entrench Property Rights in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Tasha Kheiriddin writes in Full Comment on the National Post website, On February 24, federal MP Scott Reid and Ontario MPP Randy Hillier held a joint press…
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Amy Goodman sort of inadmissible to Canada?
This story piqued my interest in my news scans over the past few days. Amy Goodman, who most of my right-of-centre co-travellers would consider a bit fringe…
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And this is why we can’t have nice things
Google street view may be illegal Canada’s privacy commissioner has been googling Google, and she’s raising concerns over the search engine’s new Street View…
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Canadian Constitutional Tradition
This weekend, I find myself in Calgary for the Calgary Congress put on by the Citizens Centre for Freedom and Democracy. The conference is a discussion on…
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Weekend in Ottawa
I just got back from an educational weekend in Ottawa where I was blessed to see some old friends and make some new ones at the 10th annual Civitas conference.…
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Senate appointments and the erosion of Canada’s representative democracy
When the Fathers of Confederation assembled to hash out a representative system, most would agree that they were quite aware of the idea of checks and balances…
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Ask yourself what’s wrong with healthcare
In today’s edition of the Globe and Mail, Robert Matas reports that the family of a woman who died in a hospital parking lot plans to sue because the only…