It’s easy to feel like free speech is on the decline in Canada. The number of reasonable opinions now considered cancellable offences is growing by the day.
But a recent decision from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice is good news for defenders of free speech. A moment of optimism was granted from the Ottawa small claims court on Nov. 10 when the court dismissed a lawsuit filed by Richard Warman, a lawyer and board member of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN).
Progressive U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is not known for her ability to gracefully accept criticism, so it’s no wonder that, when New York Times opinion columnist David Brooks put her in the same “populist” basket as former President Donald Trump, she threw yet another public Twitter fit.
In a Thursday column, titled, “The Fever is Breaking,” Brooks pointed to the midterm election results and deduced that “performative populism has begun to ebb.”
“San Francisco is a sanctuary city and our policy is sacred.”
Officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security want to deport the man accused of bludgeoning U.S. Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer, but District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said Thursday that she will refuse to turn him over, citing San Francisco’s sanctuary city policies.
If one thing is evident from the Ottawa People’s Commission on the convoy occupation, it’s that many residents are still angry and concerned, and some still suffering, over the “Freedom Convoy’s” takeover of the city’s downtown core last winter.
On Saturday, the commission held its seventh public hearing, and third in-person, since hosting its first just over six weeks ago. Five speakers spoke at the Jack Purcell Community Centre, where about 30 people gathered to watch and listen. The hearing, which was hosted by commissioners Alex Neve, an adjunct professor in international human rights at uOttawa and Dalhousie University, and author and human rights activist Monia Mazigh, will be broadcast on the commission’s YouTube channel next week.
A campaign is currently underway by left-wing organizations and politicians to demand that Twitter, now owned by Elon Musk, continue its practice of censoring hate speech and other “objectionable” postings.
A letter sent to Twitter’s top 20 advertisers, signed by 40 activist organizations, including the NAACP, the Center for American Progress, GLAAD and the Global Project Against Hate and extremism, contained the following veiled threat:
“We, the undersigned organizations call on you to notify Musk and publicly commit that you will cease all advertising on Twitter globally if he follows through on his plans to undermine brand safety and community standards, including gutting content moderation.”
This means that Musk must not roll back what Twitter has on the books now, and commit to enforcing the existing rules. In other words, Twitter advertisers have been asked to boycott Twitter unless it continues to censor.
As the midterms approach, one way of looking at America’s current disaster is that we, the American people, were lab rats. And since 2021, the Left were the mad scientists, eager to try out their crackpot leftist experiments on us.
The result is that the housing market is tottering on the verge of collapse.
As interest rates soar, our $31 trillion national debt crowds out everything else in the budget.
PBS took the democracy is in danger hysteria to new levels on Tuesday’s Amanpour and Company as Hari Sreenivasan interviewed Prof. Barbara F. Walter to inquire on just how close the United States is to another civil war. Walter, who wrote the book How Civil Wars Start, warned that all the pieces are in place for “Christian” “white men” to start one.
As has become flagrantly obvious over the years, the political left and its myrmidons in the media, medical industry, social agencies, public libraries, and school system have become slickly adept at framing the cultural debate between conservatives and “progressives” by mutilating discourse, fudging long-accepted distinctions, and decoupling terms from their culturally ascribed referents. What was understood for centuries and millennia as decency becomes indecency, good becomes bad, virtue becomes vice, settled tradition becomes feral violence, family and marriage become barbarism and bondage (the feminist mantra), and so on. Conversely, what is destructive of customary order becomes enlightened transformation.
Two entitled Stop Oil activists continued the group’s cunning plan to draw attention to our fossil fuel dependence by vandalizing a priceless Vermeer, last week. The video, captured at the museum in The Hague, includes one of the protesters trying to glue his head to the painting, while another poured a can of tomato soup on him. The reaction of the museum visitors demonstrates just how well the message of the climate crusaders is landing: cries of “stupid,” “shame,” and “obscene,” along with an admonition for the perpetrators to “shut the f— up” can be heard from those witnessing the act. While I won’t explicitly endorse vulgarity and insult, I must say that my sympathies here lie unequivocally with the appalled bystanders.
Already has in Canada. and still no arrests I am aware of in the Coastal GasLink terror attack.
Arsonists have allegedly struck a parking lot full of RCMP vehicles in the same region of interior B.C. that has previously seen coordinated attacks on targets related to the Coastal GasLink pipeline.
Before dawn on Wednesday, multiple cars were set alight in the parking lot of the Sunshine Inn in Smithers, B.C. After firefighters extinguished the blaze, it was found to have destroyed eight vehicles, including four marked RCMP cruisers and a B.C. ambulance.
The materials claim, with little evidence, that Canadian schools are awash in right-wing extremism
… Developed using $268,400 in federal funds and actively promoted by the Trudeau government, the materials are pitched to teachers as a way to “prevent hate” in the classroom. But according to the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education, the 53-page package is a “not high quality” and loaded with political bias.
Saskatchewan isn’t the first to criticize the toolkit. In a recent blog post, former Conservative leadership candidate Leslyn Lewis claimed that the toolkit was itself “shockingly hateful.” Earlier this year, the toolkit briefly obtained national attention due to its assertion that Canada’s pre-1965 flag was a hate symbol.
Laith Marouf and this left-wing extremist shit pass for anti-hate in Trudeauland.
MSNBC has its stable of race-baiting hosts, most famously the unhinged and unwatchable Joy Reid. Tucker did over thirteen minutes on it the other night, focusing on the loathsome Tiffany Cross. He likened her race-baiting to the gasoline that lit the fire of the Rwandan genocide, especially considering the parade of radical racists she has on as guests. They’re all nodding in agreement and adding their own inflammatory sound bites on the persistently evil “WHITE PEOPLE SUCK” and “BLACK REPUBLICANS ARE MORONIC RACE TRAITORS” themes.
What do you get when you unleash a group of uneducated, narcissistic, overindulged, and misinformed teenagers and young adults, who grew up on social media and in an incubator of leftist doctrine, on the world? Chaos.
More… Just Stop Oil Activists glue themselves to road in Islington on day 22 of their campaign to bring London to a standstill
“[W]e know that the fears of crime are just kind of latent sub-texts that have a racialized history in this country. And so, walking voters through the perception of crime and where there actually is crime. But also, the economy is much stronger under Joe Biden.”
Good luck running on that, Democrats — telling voters concerned about crime that they are basically a bunch of racists who perceive crime where it might not actually exist!
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been filmed grooving along to protesters who chanted ‘AOC has gotta go’ while backed by a drum beat at a fractious town hall meeting.
Protestors confronted the second-term congresswoman at a town hall in Queens on Wednesday night.
The grinning congresswoman shrugged off the aggressive criticism as she sipped from a water bottle and began to move her shoulders in beat with the chants.
AOC is melting down at a town hall in Queens after protesters heckled her for half an hour.
"There are only two f–king genders" yelled one protester.pic.twitter.com/bj6s2MByDa
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) October 20, 2022
