Is Canada Constitutionally Poor, and did the Charter fail us during the pandemic?
In this episode of the CCF’s Freedom Update, Christine talks about the poverty of Canada’s constitutional culture and whether the Charter lived up to it’s promise to civil libertarians.
$1 Million In Covid Fines Tossed Out In Major Legal Victory
The Democracy Fund (TDF) has announced that its lawyers have successfully defeated a cumulative $1 million in Covid–related fines faced by 14 different clients.
In a Thursday news release, the law advocacy organization revealed that in the last two weeks $56,000 in fines faced by British Columbians have been defeated and a whopping $950,000 in Ontario has also been thrown out.
How About The Government Tries Leaving People Alone?
During a recent appearance on the Marc Patrone Show, we talked about how the one thing the government in Canada – and in many Western countries – refuses to do is to just leave people the hell alone.
And this is really worth considering.
We live in a time when most of the problems we face are government-caused.
Totally normal behavior. pic.twitter.com/z0HBzJRC6D
— Ultra Nuclear Dante 🇺🇸 (@RealDante12) August 18, 2022
Meta And TikTok Can Track Everything You Type On In-App Browsers
Facebook, Instagram and TikTok’s iPhone apps are capable of tracking everything users type in their in-app internet browsers, according to warnings from a security researcher.
All three popular social media apps say they don’t track sensitive user data like credit card information, passwords and addresses that is entered through in-app browsers — but it would be extremely easy for them to do so if they wanted to, researcher and developer Felix Krause wrote this week.
For Democrat Politicians, Crime Pays
Seattle’s leaders have decided this is a perfect time to go even softer on crime. Fatal shootings may be at a record pace, and a lot of officers may have resigned after the city defunded the police but, hey, it’s a perfect time to give dangerous juvenile and adult offenders who steal cars, sell drugs, and take guns to school a chance to stay out of jail. Why? Because the criminal justice system is racist, homophobic, and transphobic, you see. So the city figures it will be better to divert these cases out of the criminal justice system entirely and put them in front of a panel of left-wing activists who will show ‘understanding’ and ‘compassion’ and decide how, if at all, to hold the offenders accountable – kumbaya. I can’t wait for the first time one of those activists gets mugged. We’ll see what they think then.
Same FBI Unit That Raided Mar-A-Lago Pushed Russian Collusion Hoax
In the least shocking news of the day, the same FBI unit that raided Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home also pushed the Russian collusion hoax against the former President. And, there’s more: One the the FBI agents involved in the raid also dismissed Hunter Biden’s laptop as “Russian disinformation.” But yeah, there’s nothing politically-motivated about any of this, right?
