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Posted: April 18, 2012
Several millennia ago, Aristotle asserted that man was different from the animals because only he had the gift of (thoughtful) speech. The cursing generation seems intent on erasing that distinction as Mark Milke explains…
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Helping Easterners Understand the Alberta Election
By: Dr. Barry Cooper
Alberta (along with the other Western provinces) really does have long-term economic and geopolitical interests distinct from those of Canadians living in the St. Lawrence Valley. Until our fellow-citizens in Ontario and Quebec accept Alberta leadership, Premier Alison Redford’s pledge to build bridges is an exercise in futility or worse, capitulation. Barry Cooper looks at the Alberta election and explains what it means…
Volume 6 - Issue 1: Courts and Charter
Interview with former Supreme Court of Canada judge John (Jack) Major
Interview with former Supreme Court of Canada judge John (Jack) Major By Chris Schafer
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Charter Hyperbole: The New Politics of Heresy
Law, especially rights-entrenching constitutional law, has become a new sacred text, allegedly defining the legitimate community and putting apostates beyond its pale. In Canada, the pulpit hyperbole that cast Wilfrid Laurier as a heretic in late 19th Century Quebec has been replaced by the “Charter Hyperbole” now used to demonize Stephen Harper.
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Free? Democratic? Society?: Re-examining Section 1 of the Charter
All rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Charter are subject to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society. This article explains how the courts have been using the words "free and democratic society" as a hollow feel good notion devoid of any specific meaning to substitute the analysis of what a society founded on democratic principles and made up of free individuals should be with utilitarian tests designed to achieve the greatest good for the greatest number of people at the expense of the least misery for the smallest number of people.
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Civilization: The West and The Rest
In this wide-ranging account, the economic historian Niall Ferguson sets out to explain the rise of Western civilization, as well as defend its achievements from the enervating effects of multiculturalism, post-modernism and post-colonialism. Ferguson argues that the economic, social and political institutions of the West still provide the best hope for guaranteeing lives which are meaningful and rewarding, and for solving the problems the modern world faces.
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The Charter at 30: Charter Jurisprudence that Went off the Rails
In the 30 years since the adoption of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, any cautious optimism that freedom loving Canadians had in 1982 has proven to be unfounded as the courts have continuously enabled an ever-expanding state to the detriment of freedom.
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