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Freedom & Health

Deep throat for the deep state

Michael Abramowitz’s legal challenge to his removal as Voice of America director highlights a power struggle over the agency’s shift from global journalism to advancing Biden-era domestic agendas. By Sasha Wong | American Greatness How a sleepy federal media agency became a bunker for partisan power—and why it matters. By any normal standard, Monday’s filing […]

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Inside the microplastic nightmare

By Lawrence Solomon | Published by the Financial Post Junk Science Week series In Brief Microplastics permeate our environment and bodies, with studies revealing individuals ingest between 78,000 and 211,000 particles annually through consumption or inhalation. A joint Canadian government study underscores their ubiquity, present in indoor/outdoor air, tap water, waterways, soil, and even food […]

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Election interference & Foreign Influence Freedom & Health Law with Bruce Pardy

The mandates of the managerial state

By Bruce Pardy | Published by The Brownstone Institute | First published by The Epoch Times Forget the members of Parliament who may have colluded with foreign governments. The real menace, the RCMP seem to think, are House of Commons pages. MPs suspected of foreign election interference should not be identified, the Mounties have insisted, […]

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Freedom & Health Law with Bruce Pardy Pandemic Vaccines

Alberta severance award for COVID vaccine non-compliance may be a first, lawyer says

By John Schofield | Law360 Canada Article behind paywall In Brief An Alberta court has ordered WestJet to pay over $65,000 in compensation to a former employee for wrongful dismissal. The ruling is being hailed as a landmark in Canadian employment law, with legal experts noting it sets a significant precedent by addressing gaps in […]

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Energy & Climate Freedom & Health Law with Bruce Pardy

What would an independent Alberta really look like?

The Candice Malcolm Show: Alberta’s separatist movement is a nationalist counter to Canada’s globalist progressivism, rooted in irreconcilable ideological divides, argues Prof. Bruce Pardy. While legally viable, independence faces practical and philosophical hurdles, underscoring a broader crisis of Canadian identity and federal legitimacy. Prof. Pardy posits that secession could trigger national upheaval, forcing Ottawa to […]

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Freedom & Health Law with Bruce Pardy

The West wants out?

Leaders on the Frontier: Alberta’s push for independence, driven by decades of federal neglect and anti-energy policies (Trudeau’s emissions caps, pipeline cancellations et al.), has reached a tipping point. With 30% of Albertans open to separation, Premier Danielle Smith’s astute alignment with separatist petitions—while not outright endorsing them—signals a strategic challenge to Ottawa (she is […]

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Freedom & Health Law with Bruce Pardy

Deconstructing Canada

The modern state has abandoned its role as a guardian of freedom to take on the mantle of managerial overlord. What would limiting the state to its core function—protecting liberty—look like? Could we as citizens cope without the Nanny State? Are we able to see that many of our societal problems are exacerbated, not solved, […]

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Freedom & Health

The serfs of Tiny Township

By Lawrence Solomon | The Financial Post [Full Text Available Here] Summary Under a new bylaw scheduled to pass next month in Tiny, Ont., a rural township on the shores of Georgian Bay, thousands of property owners will lose their right to do anything to their property apart from “activities such as garden weeding, raking, and minor trimming of […]

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China & Geopolitics Freedom & Health

The unsilenced will eventually have their say

Return From Purgatory is the inaugural volume in a book series by the U.S.-registered non-profit, China Unofficial Archives, an online site fully bilingual in Chinese and English, dedicated to circulating key documents, films, blogs, and publications as a correction to the imbalance of an entire country’s history determined and controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. In […]

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Freedom & Health Law with Bruce Pardy

Meet the Albertan separatists who want to be American

By Rupa Subramanya | The Free Press Summary A growing band of Canadians are advocating for Alberta to become independent and join the United States. Alberta holds the third-largest oil reserves in the world, trailing only Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, and sits atop rich deposits of coal, lithium, and other critical minerals that America is […]