Commentary Apparently it’s grand being a Liberal in Canada. You’re the best, you know it, and you want the world to see you dance before your own tabernacle. Which might not be the best approach just now. It doubtless seems weird to emerge from the heady atmosphere of the Shaw Centre to a lecture on…

A CCP-linked Chinese billionaire who donated to the alma mater of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau and toward erecting a statue of him, also wanted the university to put up a statue of former Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong. Jeff Heinrich, a spokesperson for the University of Montreal, told The Epoch Times that the…

The word “unprecedented” applies to some aspects of the massive public inquiry underway in Ottawa. After all, the commission is investigating the first-time use of the federal Emergencies Act during the “Freedom Convoy,” protests last winter that decried extraordinary restrictions during a global pandemic. But this week’s dramatic conclusion of the Public Order Emergency Commission…

Commentary We are regularly treated to surveys of public opinion about Canada’s 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Canadians love it, though the vast majority have never read it. Not a word. The real story of the Charter, the reasons for it, and its political and moral consequences are widely ignored. Prior to our founding,…

News Analysis The restrictions on worship and assembly during the pandemic, followed more recently by the potential denial of employment for unvaccinated people, have left some Canadians wondering how such things could take place given Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. “It’s in those moments where the individual is standing up against the state, and…