“When governments treat everything as dangerous, everything becomes subject to control.” Enjoying the great outdoors isn’t a privilege that govts can deny the entire population for months at a time with only hours of notice (and minus any public debate about how else fire

Bret 🍁 It is the grade school approach: "It's too difficult to punish the arsonists, so I'm going to punish EVERYONE."

If it was my job to prevent forest fires in Canada I'd probably clean up the forests, do some controlled burns, cut out some fire breaks, buy some water bombers, and actively pursue and severely punish the arsonists. Notice how none of that infringes on people's basic freedoms?

Civil rights are not an afterthought: “The whole conversation seems to amount to forest fires are bad and stopping them is good and ergo any state intervention along these lines is thus justified. That's not how it's supposed to work...there's no evidence that the Nova Scotia

Another sorry chapter in the RCMP’s history of dirty tricks & shoddy investigations. Cops aren’t supposed to bring our legal system into disrepute.

Brilliant analysis. Exactly this. New Brunswick premier's explanation reveals "a dangerous and growing habit among the technocratic political class: the idea that the state may suspend your liberty not because of something you’ve done, or even something you’re likely to do, but

Climate activists hate free speech. 40-second mark in this video: “We ARE in a climate crisis, and we don’t necessarily need people who suggest otherwise". Paul Dorfman says this to my friend, Ben Pile. Ben Pile

If you don’t take these two injections you will lose your job. If you don’t take these two injections you can’t travel by plane or train. If you don’t take these two injections you can’t visit your dying family member If you don’t take these two injections you can’t join your

Publication day! AUTHORITARIANS IN THE ACADEMY is officially out. Thanks to everyone, especially my colleagues at FIRE and my publisher Hopkins Press, who helped me get this from an idea to a draft to a finished book. It’s available for purchase now.

C2Cjournal has just published an excerpt from my book, along with an introductory essay written by moi. c2cjournal.ca/2025/08/three-…

⚡ New Story ⚡ The criminal charges arising from the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa in February 2022 were by and large for the relatively innocuous infraction of mischief and, as the last of these cases finally conclude, most eyes are on the impending sentencing of protest

With the renewed focus on the unjust persecution of Amy Hamm, and repression of free speech in Canada, I thought it worthwhile to reshare my film on the subject, with interviews from Jamil Jivani J.J. McCullough Pierre Poilievre Amy Eileen Hamm and more! youtube.com/watch?app=desk…