Once it was confirmed that, for the first time, Canada would be ruled by a majority government achieved through floor-crossing, it didn’t take long for talk of a renewed Online Harms Act to be proposed.
Heritage Minister Marc Miller was approached after his party—thanks to winning three byelections to hold seats it had previously won in last year’s election and gaining five floor-crossing MPs—had turned a minority government into a majority with unfettered legislative power.
We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A funny thing happened Wednesday morning. Checking the Telegraph website, I noticed a curious headline: there was a “very serious incident” afoot at De Montfort University in Leicester. Wondering what this serious incident was, and immediately forming some suspicions, as one does in times like these, I clicked on the headline and was taken to a live news update feed. Here is what I learned…
OTTAWA — On a Tuesday night, on the eighth floor of a building bordering Ottawa’s Parliamentary Precinct, Conservative MP Jamil Jivani stood before a small crowd to denounce “Liberal racism” — a form of “discrimination” he believes is eroding meritocracy, eradicating diversity of thought and tearing Canadians apart.
About 50 people filled the nondescript room, where bottles of Bud Light — a beer branded “woke” by the right in 2023 after partnering with a transgender influencer — were cheekily on offer for attendees.
Cambridge University has dismissed scores of complaints against a philosophy fellow who was sacked by his college after a race row.
An internal investigation was opened last year after 58 students accused Dr Nathan Cofnas, an early career academic at Emmanuel College, of discriminating against black scholars.
He said in a blog post that under a meritocracy black people would “disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment” and that the number of black professors at Harvard would “approach zero”.
For a decade, conservative voices were erased by tech giants—yet the media now pretends censorship began only when comedians faced suspension.
For every conservative in America who is delighted that at least some of the purveyors of hate speech and misinformation on the woke left are at last being held accountable, there is another who still adheres to the ideals of free speech. As UFC CEO Dana White recently said on 60 Minutes, “Probably the most important speech to protect is hate speech.”
As I reported yesterday, DEI Mayor Vi of Charlotte, N.C., praised the city’s “media partners” for not showing the video of the brutal murder of a 23-year-old young woman at the hands of a career criminal on public transit, on the grounds that depicting reality would potentially create awareness of said reality, which the governing authorities find inconvenient. “I want to thank our media partners and community members who have chosen not to repost or share the footage out of respect for Iryna’s family,” stated Vi.
Funding to move asylum claimants from homeless shelters into apartments sparks questions about fairness
“This program in some way puts certain groups of people coming into the city ahead of the line. I’m trying to wrap my head around that,” Coun. Corrine Rahman told colleagues during a meeting of the Community and Protective Services Committee.
A staff report asks council to ratify an agreement with the federal government that would provide London with $7,345,000 from the Interim Housing Assistance Program (IHAP) to cover costs stemming from the increasing number of asylum claimants accessing local support agencies, including homeless shelters.
The funding would provide asylum claimants with supports such as housing navigation, orientation and basic needs assistance until March 31, 2027.
In addition, 11 apartments will be dedicated specifically for asylum claimants in a building at 763-773 Dundas Street led by the London Cross Cultural Learner Centre (CCLC).
Lucy Connolly has been released from jail after being handed what is believed to be the longest prison sentence for a single social media post.
Mrs Connolly, 42, left HMP Peterborough, a mixed men’s and women’s prison, with muted fanfare on Thursday after serving more than 300 days in prison.
She was jailed last year for 31 months over a comment made in the wake of the Southport attack.
OTTAWA—The Liberal government is weighing the criminalization of displaying terror and hate symbols, a potentially precedent-setting move in Canada that has prompted concerns about civil liberties.
It’s not yet clear if a possible ban would focus on specific symbols, like the swastika, or if it would broadly cover any symbols related to designated terror groups. And no final decision has yet been made on whether to go through with the Criminal Code reforms, which were being mulled by the Trudeau government prior to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s ascent to the Liberal leadership and his victory in the spring election, according to a transition briefing to the minister of justice from March 2025 that was made public last week.
We have experience of laws ostensibly designed to safeguard the public good being weaponized by the Liberal-Left to criminalize dissent.
That assault on liberty is on-going and we should not repeat errors of the past.
I remember a couple of decades ago encountering an assessment of Ann Coulter by a prominent conservative pundit who summed up her contribution to the conservative movement at that time as a net loss. This opinion apparently stemmed from a distaste for Coulter’s style, which quite a few on the right found sufficiently abrasive as to consider it damaging to the cause.
I suppose a person who takes on problems with a sledgehammer is a bit of an irritant to those who’d prefer a softer approach. A blunt, no-holds-barred style of public discourse, when combined with a keen intelligence and massive amounts of research, does increase the unfortunate likelihood of change to the status quo.
This week, the Sun carried a story about a lawsuit filed against certain members of the NDP for casting a slur about an independent candidate in a by-election a couple of years ago. The candidate was referred to as “racist” in an attempt to discredit him. There is no evidence that he is a racist.
Toronto cop’s misconduct case over ‘offensive’ Facebook posts ends without a hearing
“Among other things, Const. Timothy Somers posted to Facebook that Black Lives Matter is a “hate group that must be eliminated by the government” and that “police are not a threat to black lives, black people are a threat to each other!”
Under the innocuous-looking sub-heading titled “Strengthening media diversity — safeguarding freedom of opinion,” the new German coalition contract conceals what George Orwell would recognize as classic doublespeak. The section “Dealing with disinformation” reads:
“Targeted influence on elections and by now commonplace disinformation and fake news are serious threats to our democracy, its institutions and social cohesion. The deliberate dissemination of false factual claims is not covered by freedom of expression. That is why the media supervisory authority, which is independent of the state, must be able to take action against the manipulation of information, hate-mongering and agitation while safeguarding freedom of expression—on the basis of clear legal requirements … We will ensure that online platforms fulfil their obligations with regard to transparency and cooperation with the supervisory authority.”
Under no circumstances, Jacqui Smith said in 2009, would she reconsider the decision to ban Michael Savage from Britain.
The Labour home secretary was adamant: Mr Savage, a Right-wing radio “shock jock” with the second-most popular show in the United States, deserved his place on a list of 22 people permanently excluded from the country.
Having spoken in “violent terms” about gay people and discussed the killing of “100 million Muslims,” he was “seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts”, Ms Smith told Parliament. The cantankerous broadcaster could incite “inter-community violence” if he crossed the Atlantic.
This is about the extraordinary case of Rev Dr Bernard Randall and the latest developments in his story. In 2019, Dr Randall, an ordained Church of England (CofE) minister, was working without any issues at Trent College in Derbyshire. The college had a CofE chapel and a CofE ethos and Dr Randall was employed to pastor, teach and uphold Christian beliefs in the school. Everything changed, however, when the college invited extreme LGBT group Educate and Celebrate to implement its ‘gold standard’ inclusive curriculum to even nursery aged children.
