Justice with John Carpay

John returns to the show to help us catch up on the COVID file as we look at the second wave situation in Quebec and Ontario, with the former bringing in strict lockdown measures based on the number of cases, not deaths. And we also discuss John's Post Millennial column about the impact of lockdown measures in developing nations.
Canadian Press via MSN, Sep 29, 2020: Montreal restaurateurs 'in shock' after provincial government orders 28-day closure

RAIR Foundation, Sep 9, 2020: Breaking: Canada forcibly removes and imprisons 'uncooperative' coronavirus-positive citizens at secret location (video)
Globe and Mail, Sep 2, 2020: Quebec City karaoke bar COVID-19 outbreak linked to cases in three schools
CBC, Sep 23, 2020: Quebec police won't be allowed to enter homes without consent or a warrant, public security minister says
Post Millennial, Oct 1, 2020: 'Telewarrants' now a reality in Quebec, allowing police to quickly break up gatherings
650 CKOM, Jul 7, 2020: Saskatchewan’s 15th COVID-19-related death was a person in their 20s
John Carpay in The Post Millennial via The Justice Centre, Oct 1, 2020: Lockdowns deadlier than COVID in developing nations
Oxfam, Apr 8, 2020: Half A Billion People Could Be Pushed Into Poverty By COVID-19
Oxfam, Jul 8, 2020: 12,000 people per day could die from Covid-19 linked hunger by end of year, potentially more than the disease, warns Oxfam

The Canadian Press via Toronto Star, Sep 6, 2020: Quebec police investigating online threats against unnamed elected official
Justice Centre Press Release, Apr 17, 2020: Trudeau and Premiers questioned about adverse consequences from government-imposed lockdowns
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Lindsay Shepherd, free speech fellow with the Justice Centre, joins us to talk about the 2020 Campus Freedom Index, on which she was the lead author. She tells us about her findings--some good, a lot bad--and shares a few interesting anecdotes of things she found along the way.
Justice Centre News Release, Sep 24, 2020: 2020 Campus Freedom Index – Universities choose ideological advocacy over free expression
The 2020 Campus Freedom Index
Campus Freedom Indexes from years past
Lindsay Shepherd on YouTube, Mar 30, 2018: GOODBYE TO THE LEFT
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Justice Centre litigation manager Jay Cameron talks about the 2-week mandatory quarantine orders across Canada for travelers arriving from abroad. The Centre has sent a legal warning letter to the Alberta Health Minister on behalf of a client who is trying to get the government to ease up on the restrictions.
Government of Alberta: Isolation requirements
Justice Centre, Sep 18, 2020 (PDF): Letter to Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro
Justice Centre News Release, Sep 22, 2020: Justice Centre warns Alberta Government that strict quarantine requirement is incarceration and unconstitutional
Justice Centre News Release, Sep 21, 2020: Justice Centre challenges Feds over arbitrary quarantines
Government of Canada News Release, Jun 30, 2020: Canada Extends Mandatory Requirements Under the Quarantine Act for Anyone Entering Canada
Forbes, Sep 2, 2020: Canada Extends Foreign Travel Ban And Coronavirus Quarantine Restrictions
Government of Canada: How to quarantine (self-isolate) at home when you may have been exposed to COVID-19 and have no symptoms
Forbes, Sep 14, 2020: Pennsylvania Coronavirus Restrictions Struck Down By Federal Court
AIER, Sep 20, 2020: Open Letter from Medical Doctors and Health Professionals to All Belgian Authorities and All Belgian Media
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Lawyer Marty Moore joins us to go over the latest Justice Centre report, which is on the Saskatchewan government's response to COVID-19. Entitled "The Unjustified Persistence of Lockdowns," much of this work can be applied to other provinces as well.
Justice Centre News Release, Sep 14, 2020: Saskatchewan Government lockdown measures violate Charter: legal analysis
Justice Centre Report (PDF): The Unjustified Persistence of Lockdowns--A Charter Analysis of Saskatchewan’s Response to COVID-19
CTV, Mar 29, 2020: Don't head to your cottage to wait out COVID-19 pandemic, Canadians warned
Regina Leader-Post, Sep 12, 2020: A roadmap to Saskatchewan's pandemic election campaign
National Post, Sep 17, 2020: Ontario cuts social gathering numbers in three regions, brings in $10,000 fines for rule violators
CBC video via MSN, Sep 15, 2020: 'We're prepared for the worst,' Ontario health minister says [COVID Fatigue mentioned a 1:10]
Time, Apr 30, 2020: Are You Experiencing COVID-19 'Caution Fatigue?' Here's What It Is, and How to Fight It
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We look back at a pre-COVID controversy in which nurses' unions fought against mandatory mask policies and won. Everyone seems to have forgotten about this, but obviously it is relevant to the situation today. Also, we talk about the growing body of evidence showing the lockdowns were ineffective.
Alex Berenson in Threadreader, Aug 7, 2020: "The Ontario arbitration fight about masks is really stunning..."

CBC, Jan 8, 2014: Nurses gear up for fight over mandatory flu shots or masks

CBC, Sep 10, 2015: Union says Ontario nurses can't be forced to wear masks in flu season
CBC, Dec 4, 2019: B.C. nurses no longer need to get flu vaccine or wear masks, can rely on 'professional judgment'
CanLII, Dec 16, 2015: Bloorview School Authority v Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 4400
CanLII, Nov 9,2016: William Osler Health System v Ontario Nurses’ Association, 2016
New York Post, Jun 6, 2020: WHO reverses position on face masks as coronavirus cases climb
Donald L. Luskin in The Wall Street Journal, Sep 1, 2020: The Failed Experiment of Covid Lockdowns
Daily Mail, Jul 23, 2020: Lockdowns DON'T work, study claims: Researchers say stay-at-home orders made no difference to coronavirus deaths around the world - but prior health levels DID
Lancet via EClinicalMedicine, Jul 21, 2020: A country level analysis measuring the impact of government actions, country preparedness and socioeconomic factors on COVID-19 mortality and related health outcomes
Irish Times, Sep 2, 2020: German lockdown was too harsh says health minister
Associated Press via USA Today, Sep 1, 2020: South Florida restaurants and casinos reopen as governor vows no more COVID-19 shutdowns
CBC, Sep 9, 2020: Alberta won't 'micromanage' businesses as COVID-19 infections climb: Kenney
Justice Centre News Release, Sep 9, 2020: Court ruling upholds Alberta bylaw that bans trailer signs on private land
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Will the loss of freedom in Canada become permanent following the pandemic? Is it already permanent? We discuss possible remedies to this reduction of Charter rights and freedoms which is based on fear of COVID, a fear that governments and the media have stoked for months. Perhaps change will come when society fears the lockdown measures more than the virus.
John Carpay in The Post Millennial, Sep 1, 2020: COVID restrictions to Charter freedoms appear to be permanent
Amazon.ca: Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm
RCI, Jul 21, 2020: Drug overdose deaths far exceed COVID-19 in British Columbia
South China Morning Post, Sep 2, 2020: Coronavirus death rate may be as bad – or worse – than for Spanish flu pandemic
Washington Post via National Post, Sep 1, 2020: 'It never went away': What the 1918 flu can tell us about when life might return to 'normal'
John Carpay in The Post Millennial, Jun 26, 2020: Jerry Dunham was killed by the lockdown—not by COVID-19
Justice Centre News Release, Apr 17, 2020: Trudeau and Premiers questioned about adverse consequences from government-imposed lockdowns
Global News, Sep 1, 2020: ‘I feel for parents’: Dr. Hinshaw regrets confusing COVID-19 orders as schools reopen
Justice Centre News Release, Aug 26, 2020: COVID Legislature Ticket Dropped; Complaint Submitted Regarding Alberta Sheriffs
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Lawyer Lisa Bildy joins us to talk about the Justice Centre's recent action filed against the Ontario government over lockdown rules restricting relatives from visiting family members in long-term care.
Justice Centre News Release, Aug 25, 2020: Ford government sued after months of lockdown of seniors in long-term care
Justice Centre Court filing (PDF): VINCENZINA DE SAO JOSÉ, personally and as litigation guardian for MAFALDA MAIONE, and SUSAN MILLS, personally and as litigation guardian for BARBARA MILLS Applicants - and - ONTARIO (CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH and MINISTER OF LONG-TERM CARE) Respondents
Justice Centre News Release, Jul 17, 2020: Family members to launch lawsuit against Ford government for violating seniors’ Charter rights
Justice Centre News Release, Jun 24, 2020: Court action pending if governments continue to deny visitors to long-term care homes
Community Legal Education Ontario: Every Resident - Bill of Rights for people who live in Ontario long-term care homes
Toronto Sun, Jul 23, 2020: Families still fighting to see their loved ones
Ontario NDP, Jul 20, 2020: NDP MPP Gretzky tables motion, urges Ford to create COVID-19 Essential Caregiver Strategy
CBC, May 26, 2020: Ontario long-term care homes in scathing report could face charges, says Ford
Supreme Court of Canada, Sep 10, 1999: New Brunswick (Minister of Health and Community Services) v. G. (J.)
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Our guest law professor Bruce Pardy discusses his article "Public Universities, Speech Policies, and the Law: Fourteen Maxims." He defines the issues and clears up some common misconceptions about free speech and freedom in general for academics, administrators and students on campuses in Canada.
Queen's University: Bruce Pardy, Professor
Bruce Pardy in SSRN, Aug 20, 2020: Public Universities, Speech Policies, and the Law: Fourteen Maxims
Jordan Peterson in Thinkspot, Aug 28, 2019: The Queens University Talk
Below are the Fourteen Maxims copied from Pardy's article:

1. ‘‘Freedom of expression” and ‘‘academic freedom” are distinct legal ideas
2. Freedom of expression is a negative right, whereas academic freedom is both negative and positive
3. Universities have no legal rationale to restrict the content of speech of its faculty or students, who are already restrained by the law
4. No university policy on the content of speech is necessary for the university to impose no restrictions on the content of speech
5. Simple policies protect free speech
6. Wordy policies create the potential to limit speech
7. Universities require ‘‘time, place, and manner” rules to protect expression
8. Universities have no justification for imposing security fees on any speaker or lecture
9. Government directives can be simple and have the force of law
10. Government directives that require each university to develop its own policy on free speech invite policies that restrict the content of speech
11. There is no right without a remedy
12. Jurisprudence on the application of the Charter to speech issues at public universities is a dog’s breakfast.
13. For most university speech issues, the Charter is a red herring
14. Some free speech disputes are about unequal application of rules rather than ‘‘freedom of expression” itself

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Columnist and social commentator Barbara Kay discusses the situation that led to her resignation from the National Post, circumstances that parallel problems in legacy media newsrooms everywhere. She also speaks about some of the issues she continues to write about in new media, like the transgender movement and its impact on women.
Barbara Kay in the Post Millennial, Jul 24, 2020: Why I'm leaving the National Post
Rex Murphy in The National Post, Jun 1, 2020: Canada is not a racist country, despite what the Liberals say
Vanmala Subramaniam in The National Post, Jun 2, 2020: Before you declare Canada is not a racist country, do your homework
Zi-Ann Lum in HuffPost, Jun 6, 2020: Systemic Racism Exists In Canada. It’s A Fact, Not An Opinion
Variety, Jun 7, 2020: Embattled New York Times Opinion Page Editor James Bennet Resigns
Philadelphia Inquirer, Jun 6, 2020: Stan Wischnowski resigns as The Philadelphia Inquirer’s top editor
Barbara Kay in The Post Millennial, Jul 24, 2020: BOOK REVIEW--The End of Gender by Debra Soh
Youtube, Dec 21, 2011: Barbara Kay on Institutionalized Feminism and Misandry
BBC, Mar 1, 2020: NHS gender clinic 'should have challenged me more' over transition
Fox News, Feb 18, 2020: Female HS track star says lawsuit to overturn Conn. transgender athlete policy 'absolutely necessary'
Daily Mail, Aug 4, 2020: MSNBC producer quits with scathing letter calling the news network a 'cancer' that 'stokes division', 'blocks diversity of thought' and 'amplifies fringe voices' for the sake of ratings
Red State, Aug 5, 2020: New Gallup Poll Delivers Devastating Indictment of News Outlets by an Overwhelming Majority of Respondents
The Western Journal, Jul 24, 2020: Nicholas Sandmann Announces Settlement of His Giant Lawsuit Against Washington Post
Quillette
New Discourses
Unherd
Barbara Kay on Twitter
Barbara Kay's author page at The Epoch Times
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With W.H.O. no longer recommending lockdowns and the issuing of The Great Barrington Declaration, we let our host say "I told you so" because he's been advocating these positions since the beginning of the pandemic.
John Carpay in The Post Millennial: Reports of increasing COVID-19 cases ignore declining deaths
FEE, Oct 12, 2020: WHO Reverses Course, Now Advises Against Use of 'Punishing' Lockdowns
The Great Barrington Declaration

Unherd on Youtube, Oct 5, 2020: Dissenting scientists issue Covid-19 herd immunity declaration
Dr. Reiner Fuellmich on Youtube, Oct 3, 2020: Crimes against humanity (video on the preparation of a lawsuit in Germany)
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney on Facebook, Oct 13, 2020: Focusing on the broader health of Albertans
National Post, Oct 13, 2020: Herd immunity would save more lives than strict COVID-19 lockdown, study says
J. Edward Les in Medium, Oct 10, 2020: The Case of the President’s Virus
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