The Justice Centre is excited to support Dr. John Robson’s forthcoming documentary about Canada’s constitution, to be completed in 2016. True, Strong, and Free is a documentary project produced by the Justice Centre and Robson-Pellerin Communications “True, Strong, and Free” is a documentary film which examines the history of government in Canada, from its Vist The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms to read more!
Electoral Reform: Referendum, Yes or No? David Mitchell
The good news is that the federal government’s pledge to do away with our existing system of voting is sparking a lively national debate on democratic renewal. The bad news is that that debate may be drowned out by the debate over how to ask Canadians what they think of it. Read the entire article in PDF Format at PolicyMagzine.ca
News Release: Free speech at stake in court application against Oshawa student union
News Release February 1, 2016 Free speech at stake in court application against Oshawa student union OSHAWA: The Justice Centre has filed a court application against the Student Association at Durham College and University of Ontario Institute of Technology (“Student Association”) to defend the free speech rights and freedom of association of a Vist The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms to read more!
Prosecuting climate chaos skeptics with RICO Al Gore, Torquemada Whitehouse, Democrat AGs threaten to silence and bankrupt skeptics
by Paul Driessen It’s been a rough stretch for Climate Armageddon religionists and totalitarians. Real World science, climate and weather events just don’t support their manmade cataclysm narrative. The horrid consequences of anti-fossil fuel energy policies are increasingly in the news. And despite campaigns by the $1.5-trillion-per-year government-industry-activist-scientific Climate Crisis Consortium, Americans consistently rank global warming at the very bottom of their serious concerns. But instead of debating their critics, or marshaling a more persuasive, evidence-based case that we really do face a manmade climate catastrophe, alarmists have ramped up their shrill rhetoric, imposed more …
University of Toronto Mississauga Students’ Union sued over censorship of free expression on campus
News Release University of Toronto Mississauga Students’ Union sued over censorship of free expression on campus TORONTO: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms has filed a court action against the University of Toronto Mississauga Students’ Union (UTMSU), to defend the free expression rights of a pro-life student group that is being denied Vist The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms to read more!
MODEST BUT MEANINGFUL CHANGE: REFORMING EQUALIZATION
One of Canada’s key federal transfer programs, equalization, has been called the ‘glue’ that binds the Canadian federation. Mandated by the Constitution Act (1982), the program’s aim is to “…ensure that provincial governments have sufficient revenues to provide reasonably comparable levels of public services at reasonably comparable levels of taxation” (36.2). Indeed, Canada’s equalization program is much studied as a key piece of the machinery of one of the world’s most decentralized, and successful, federations. Read the complete article inPDF format here Click to access modest.pdf www.aims.ca/en/home/default.aspx
The excessive taxation of mutual funds undermines Canadians’ RRSP savings
Montreal, Friday, February 26, 2016 – While the negative market returns of recent months have reduced the value of Canadians’ and Quebecers’ RRSPs, the MEI points out that governments make the goal of saving for retirement even more difficult by inflating mutual fund management fees. en lire plus http://www.iedm.org
University of Alberta demands $17,500 from pro-life students to express opinions on campus
University of Alberta demands $17,500 from pro-life students to express opinions on campus Amberlee Nicol and her club UAlberta Pro-Life have faced numerous obstacles on campus when trying to express their opinions EDMONTON: The University of Alberta has imposed a $17,500 “security fee” on a student group seeking to host a pro-life event http://www.jccf.ca/
Historic Avro Aircraft, Together for the last time
Three Historic Avro Aircraft, all designed by Roy Chadwick formate for the 1st, and probably last ever time. The formation of the only airworthy Vulcan and Lancaster Bombers pass over the opening of the building project for the Lincolnshire Bomber Command Memorial. Lest we Forget.
Does Apple have the right to deny the FBI ? Privacy vs.Security
Does Apple have the right to deny the FBI ? Is a law written in 1789, the All Writs Act, going to compel them to hack their own operating system? Techfreedom breaks it down.
Toronto Board reverses decision to ban Christian group from Yonge-Dundas Square
News Release Friday, February 5, 2016 Toronto Board reverses decision to ban Christian group from Yonge-Dundas Square TORONTO: On February 4, 2016, the Yonge-Dundas Square (YDS) Board of Management reversed the October 2015 decision of YDS staff to ban Voices of the Nations (VOTN) from Yonge-Dundas Square. The Board has directed that a permit be granted to VOTN to http://www.jccf.ca/
Boys will use girls washrooms: new NDP gender “Guidelines” are mandatory not voluntary New NDP gender “Guidelines” are mandatory not voluntary
News Release Tuesday, February 2, 2016 Boys will use girls washrooms: new NDP gender “Guidelines” are mandatory not voluntary CALGARY: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms has received no response from Alberta Education Minister David Eggen about whether his new “Guidelines” will be voluntary for Alberta schools. Released on January 13, 2016, the http://www.jccf.ca/
