BEST OF 2025: Don’t let police take away your right to self-defence

Over the holidays we’re looking back at some of the best episodes of 2025. Self-defence laws are back in the news, with Alberta’s government recently directing Crown prosecutors to refrain from charging people for using force in “defending themselves and their loved ones.” Yet police suggest that if you face a violent home invasion, you need to give up and not fight back. That’s wrong, as criminal lawyer Solomon Friedman told Brian Lilley: The power to defend yourself, your home and others (including killing an assailant if it’s justified) is backed by the courts and the law. In this episode, Friedman and Lilley discussed why the message cops keep sending risks making innocent people into defenceless targets while encouraging criminals to become fearless. (Originally recorded September 5, 2025.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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BEST OF 2025: Don’t let police take away your right to self-defence is an episode from Full Comment with Anthony Furey by Postmedia.

This episode is 56:34 long.

This episode was published on Dec 29, 2025.

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