The Institute for Liberal Studies is a non-profit organization that creates non-partisan environments to explore, learn, and engage with the ideas of freedom.
Ottawa, Ontario
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💡Explore ideas
🎓Hear from leading scholars and experts
🤝Engage with other students
The ILS tailors hosts events specifically for students that want to hear more about the underpinning economic, philosophical, and political principles of a free society.
theils.ca/for-students/
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Step outside the Forum and explore Ottawa-Gatineau! Across Days 1 & 2, discover historic districts, waterfronts, redevelopment projects, and public spaces through guided walking tours. Choose your route and see the planning and design ideas shaping the region. 👀 #CanUForum2026
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Watch NFL and save civil society!
Matt Bufton of @Liberal_Studies 👇
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Coming out on Tuesday:
Liberty, Drugs, & Civil Society: Matt Bufton on Prohibition, Policing, & Post-Liberalism #116
Matt Bufton of the @Liberal_Studies offers a libertarian defence of civil society. Watch for it!
(early access to audio in reply)
Last week we welcomed 50 students from across Canada (as well Australia, Vietnam, the UK, Mexico, Chile, and Nigeria) to our annual Freedom Week summer seminar.
Participants told us they loved the opportunity spend a week talking about ideas in a diverse group.
This week on the Curious Task, we asked Prof. Matt Dinan (@second_sailing) of @stugreatbooks if AI is ruining liberal education. Full episode out now on your favourite podcast app.
Join us for talk with @EricMerkley on his new book "Polarization, Eh" today at 12PM ET!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
Join us tomorrow for a discussion with @cafreiman how restrictions on immigration restrict the rights of citizens.
Friday, May 15, 12PM ET - Chris Freiman - Immigration Restrictions Restrict Citizen's Freedoms Too
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
It's Jane Jacobs birthday, and our friend Sanford Ikeda write a short article about her life and legacy for us!
theils.ca/who-was-jane-jacob…
Applications close tonight!
Spend a week talking about ideas with passionate students. Meals and accommodations provided. Apply today! theils.ca/for-students/freed…
Spend a week talking about ideas with passionate students. Meals and accommodations provided. Apply today! theils.ca/for-students/freed…
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In or around Lethbridge, Alberta next week?
@PardyBruce of Queens University will be giving a free public talk on property rights and personal freedom at @uLethbridge on April 28.
With thanks to our sponsor @Liberal_Studies.
Details in the poster below 👇
We're looking for law students, grad students, and undergrads going into their final year of studies to join us for a week in Kelowna, BC!
Learn more and apply at theils.ca/for-students/ppe-s….
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🗓️ ONE WEEK AWAY – FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION WITH NADINE STROSSEN
In one week, Runnymede’s University of Ottawa Chapter, in partnership with the Institute for Liberal Studies @Liberal_Studies (ILS), welcomes Nadine Strossen (FIRE @TheFIREorg) for a discussion on freedom of expression, in conversation with Dean Kristen Boon @ProfKristenBoon (University of Ottawa).
A former President of the American Civil Liberties Union (1991–2008), Strossen has spent decades defending robust protections for free speech and civil liberties. The conversation will explore the role of expressive freedom in sustaining open debate and democratic society.
⚠️ Room Change: The event will now take place in Fauteux Hall, Room 302.
🕦 11:45 AM
Register by scanning the QR code or clicking here: theils.ca/for-students/onlin…
We hope to see you there!
In 1980, Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose was published—along with a 10-part TV series.
As notable as the ideas in each episode was Friedman’s approach to the discussion portion—favouring robust debate and long-format conversation to short-form slogans or angry talking points.
You can access the first episode (and the entire series) of Free to Choose on our Resources page, under the Videos section.
theils.ca/resources
In 1859, John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty was published, and it remains one of the most influential works on individual freedom and free expression.
You can access a copy of On Liberty under the Classical Liberalism section on our Resources page:
theils.ca/resources/
