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THE CHARTER’S BLIND SPOT Part 3 of 3

Welcome to the third and final post in our three-part, 12-section series The Charter’s Blind Spot. In this installment, we bring together everything uncovered in the first two posts — the legal, structural, and moral failures that allowed governments, institutions, and courts to evade Charter accountability during one of the most consequential periods in modern Canadian history.

kenrdrysdale

16 hours ago13 min read

Westward Rising: Building Prairie Sovereignty & Your Voice in the Winnipeg Metropolitan Region

This week’s Manitoba Stronger Together Zoom call brings you a powerful double feature designed to inform, inspire, and equip you for the civic challenges ahead. We are pleased to welcome Brad Williams from the Saskatchewan Prosperity Project, and we will also be reviewing the newly released Winnipeg Metropolitan Region (WMR) Survey together with Ken Drysdale.

kenrdrysdale

2 days ago1 min read

THE CHARTER’S BLIND SPOT Part 2 of 3

Section 5: Delegated Coercion — How Governmental Policy Captured the Medical Profession 5.1 The Mechanism of Delegation Throughout the COVID-19 period, Canadian governments achieved unprecedented control over the practice of medicine without the need for new constitutional powers. The mechanism was deceptively simple: policy by delegation . Federal and provincial executives issued public-health directives; regulatory colleges converted those directives into binding profession

kenrdrysdale

Nov 1813 min read

THE CHARTER’S BLIND SPOT

In early 2023, a Canadian woman named Sheila Lewis died — not because a medical treatment failed, but because she was denied access to that treatment under the authority of a government-designed, government-funded, and government-controlled health system. Days later, the Supreme Court of Canada refused to even hear her case. Around the same time, an Ontario man named Garnet Harper died after being refused a kidney transplant for similar reasons.

kenrdrysdale

Nov 1313 min read

When Children’s Safety Becomes the Question – Welcoming Ted Kuntz, Chair of the National Citizens Inquiry (NCI) & President of Vaccine Choice Canada

Click on the Image above to join the Zoom Meeting on Tuesday at 6:30 pm CST Our Logo ... Want to Know More? Scroll to the Bottom of this page! Please join on time, we start and finish on time. Usually I am in the chat ten minutes before the start of the meeting!

kenrdrysdale

Nov 101 min read