Justice Centre President John Carpay shares his perspective on the residential school system and on NDP MP Leah Gazan's Private Members' Bill (Bill C-413), which would make it a Criminal Code offence to condone, deny, downplay, or justify the residential school system. He discusses the potential impact of this Bill on freedom of expression, the Truth and Reconciliation project, and what he thinks is required for true reconciliation in Canada.

National Post, Sep 26, 2024: NDP MP tables bill seeking to criminalize residential school 'denialism'

Blacklock's Reporter, Sep 27, 2024: MP Seeks Jail For ‘Denialism’

Rose LeMay in Hill Times, Oct 8, 2024: Residential school denialism should be illegal

The Canadian Press via CTV, Nov 26, 2023: Special interlocutor 'waiting' for MP bill criminalizing residential school denialism

Leah Gazan on X, Oct 27, 2022: (this is her introducing her motion to get residential schools considered genocide)

Tristan Hopper in National Post, Oct 1, 2024: All the times the current Parliament has tried to limit free expression

Mark Milke in the National Post, Oct 3, 2024: Criminalizing residential school 'denialism' would silence Indigenous voices, too

Woke Watch Canada Substack, Feb 3, 2024: Why Indigenous Land Acknowledgments are Harmful to the Public Interest

Jonathan Kay in Quillette, Jun 20, 2023: In Canada, Asking for Evidence Now Counts as ‘Denialism’

National Post Editorial, Jun 24, 2023: Criminalizing speech the wrong way to address residential school legacy

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Justice Centre President John Carpay returns to the show to tell us about the book he's writing with the working title "Corrupted by Fear." It's about Canadian court judgments in constitutional challenges to the many Covid restrictions over the last 4 years. Judges, he's found, relied heavily on fear driven media narratives. He also discusses two recent and related columns, "COVID-19 in Italy, what actually happened?" and "Will we fall for the same old PCR tricks again?"

Justice Centre, Mar 13, 2024: Challenging Manitoba’s lockdown measures

John Carpay in the Western Standard via the Justice Centre, Sep 14, 2024: COVID-19 in Italy, what actually happened?

Xinhuanet, Feb 11, 2020: I am human, NOT virus! Stories behind trending anti-racism videos after novel coronavirus outbreak

The Atlantic, Apr 8, 2020: An Unimaginable Toll

Justice Centre, May 11, 2021: Manitoba Chief Microbiologist and Laboratory Specialist: 56% of positive “cases” are not infectious

Justice Centre, Apr 29, 2020: Chief Medical Officers questioned on lockdown’s adverse health impacts

CTV News, Oct 14, 2021: Hinshaw apologizes after Alberta mistakenly reports 14-year-old's cancer death was caused by COVID-19

Bonnie Henry: Reconsideration decision

John Carpay in the Western Standard, Sep 5, 2024: Covid Apocalypse and the triumph of fear over facts

Justice Centre Report, Dec 3, 2020: Flying Blind - Governments’ hasty decisions to lock down Canadians while damaging public health and the economy

Scientific American, Apr 29, 2021: Flu Has Disappeared for More Than a Year

WHO, Jun 7, 2020: Medical certification, ICD mortality coding, and reporting mortality associated with COVID-19

CBC, Sep 9, 2024: Alberta's COVID-19 death toll more than 4 times higher than flu over past year

Global, Sep 11, 2024: New Alberta COVID data highlights value of getting newly formulated vaccine once available: expert

George Jonas Freedom Award dinner in Calgary on Friday, September 27, 2024

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Lawyer Glenn Blackett talks about cases he's working on that involve free speech on campuses across Canada. This is part of the Justice Centre's Spotlight Campaign this month. He describes the case of the University of British Columbia's Free Speech Club where the administration shut down an event in which journalist Andy Ngo was to talk about Antifa. The other big case involves Professor Frances Widdowson. She was denied the opportunity to give a speech at the University of Lethbridge about the damage that woke culture does to academic freedom. Also, Glenn describes recent changes to health and safety laws used as cudgels to beat down free expression in post-secondary education and elsewhere.

Justice Centre Spotlight Campaign: Help us stop censorship on Canadian campuses

Justice Centre, Jun 4, 2024: University of British Columbia censors Free Speech Club

Justice Centre, Aug 1, 2023: University of Lethbridge cancels event, undermining academic freedom

Frances Widdowson on Amazon.ca: Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation

BBC, Feb 23, 2021: Canada's parliament declares China's treatment of Uighurs 'genocide'

Frances Widdowson in C2C Journal, Feb 23, 2023: Into Wokism’s Raging Maw: Frances Widdowson at the University of Lethbridge

Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship

Christopher Rufo Podcast via the Manhattan Institute, Aug 5, 2022: The Long March Through the Institutions

Supreme Court of Canada, Dec 6, 1990: Mckinney v. University of Guelph

Supreme Court of Canada, Oct 9, 1997: Eldridge v. British Columbia (Attorney General)

The Canadian Bar Association, Jun 11, 2020: Alberta Court of Appeal finds that Charter applies to students’ exercise of freedom of expression on university campus

McMillan LLP, Jan 2018: Alberta Bill 30: Changes to the Occupational Health and Safety Act on the Horizon

Open Alberta Bulletin BP024 (PDF): Assessment and Control of Psychological Hazards in the Workplace--OHS information for employers and workers

Jonathan Kay in Quillette, Jun 4, 2022: The Case Against Hate-Speech Laws: a Canadian Perspective

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