Category: Freespeechers

British Columbia Has a DEI Sickness

Ben Mulroney shares his thoughts.

Carney’s Canada: Free Speech No More

Zachary McRae shares his thoughts.

When will the Alberta Ministry of Justice start prosecuting members of the Edmonton Police Department?

In The Mail

One of SDA’s regulars sent me the following message today:

What follows is a news letter from the People’s Party. They have raised a valid point that none of our Political Parties have touched: once truth is prohibited, a nation can no longer be considered a democracy.

“You’ve probably heard about the Assembly of First Nations passing an emergency resolution demanding that the government make residential school “denialism” a criminal offence.
Grand Chief Garrison Settee believes that demanding evidence of unmarked graves should be considered “residential school denialism” and made into a hate crime.

But here’s the problem: at sites like the one in Kamloops, ground-penetrating radar flagged anomalies that the tribe itself said it “suspects” are unmarked graves.

No excavations have been done. No bodies have been found. And yet, asking for proof could soon land you in prison.
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The “W” Word

You’re a decade or two late to the party, Ben – but thanks for showing up.

For Ben’s next assignment: Picture the hard working civil servants who authorize the project funding at the Department of Global Affairs.

He, Too, Admires Their Basic Dictatorship

An Act to Fortify The Surveillance State;

The Liberals are gearing up to force Bill C-22 through committee and the House of Commons in just days.

This is an insane abuse of parliament to ram through a bill fraught with privacy, security, and civil liberties concerns.

This motion curtails committee scrutiny, limits MPs’ ability to debate and amend the bill, and rushes Bill C-22 through Parliament on the government’s timetable rather than allowing full parliamentary review.

Michael Geist unpacks.

Buried in the second half of Bill C-22 is a provision granting the government the power to require “core providers” to retain categories of metadata, including transmission data, for up to one year. This is mandatory metadata retention that would require telecom and electronic service providers to store information about the communications of all their users, regardless of whether those users are suspected of anything. It is one of the most privacy invasive tools a government can deploy and the international experience suggests that there are major privacy risks.

Related.

“I am a Canadian, a free Canadian.”

From Diefenbaker to the post-national state where free speech went to die.

Today the @CDNConstFound is in court intervening in a judicial review of a Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario decision that saw a small-town mayor personally fined for voting against a request to proclaim June as Pride Month. The case is Borderland Pride v Emo

Related. ‘If you feel discomfort, go to the front counter, we can reimburse you, and you can go swim somewhere else.’” (h/t MW)

Don’t Let The Door Hit You…

As someone who could never stand Stephen Colbert’s overtly partisan, sanctimonious political cheerleading for more than a couple of seconds, I don’t think that any new void is being created by his departure; there was nothing but a void to begin with.

Among those sorry to see Colbert go is astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, a frequent guest. Johnny Carson used to book scientists, but Tyson notes wryly that not many TV hosts do these days.

Brehm saw Colbert make himself into a sort of moral authority and lean into the social justice camp of progressive Catholics: “He is playing up that moral quality by standing up for American moral values like freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and he’s doing it with a Catholic jargon, with Catholic language.”

Cry Me A River

I assume his political and cultural views are pretty similar to his old man’s, so I’m surprised he didn’t cancel the US tour out of spite. I had no idea he even had musical talent in the first place, and even if I did I doubt I’d be rushing to get show tickets.

Kiefer Sutherland is the latest artist to be struck down by the so-called ‘Blue Dot Fever,’ cancelling his upcoming U.S. tour over poor ticket sales.

Sutherland has been playing shows overseas in support of his new album, Grey, and posting videos documenting his experience to social media.

Un-Fun Times Ahead

I asked Grok the following question:

Putting yourself in the shoes of a Canadian with conservative views, speculate on some scenarios that might cause prosecution of such a person for something they might say, write, or do under Bills C-9 and C-12.

Here’s how it responded. I personally believe that professional activists are going to use these bills to shut down any speech they disagree with. Plus, anyone in any protected group will be able to say anything they wish, knowing they’ll never be prosecuted.

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