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Let the kid wear his offensive Jesus shirt: Pettigrew
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UPDATED! New info after the jump! I think most emphatically not: Staffer fired as Conservatives scurry from sex film screening OTTAWA — A provocative movie about the sex lives of young people is too...
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Name the date, Jennifer. I’ll be there.
Last week, I wrote about the neo-nationalist and quasi-fascist parties elected to the European Parliament. When a political movement calls itself, as in Bulgaria, the Attack Party, one naturally...
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The fat cats vs. Blazing Cat Fur
The other day Iris Evans, the finance minister of Alberta, gave a speech to the Economic Club of Toronto. And right at the end she suggested that parents ought to be prepared to make some economic...
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Thinking about the old Ignatieff
In Ottawa on Monday, I kept getting asked—including by three stray passersby on Wellington Street—what Beatles song Michael Ignatieff should sing. Oh, come on, you don’t really need a professional for...
View ArticleThe Boissoin case: freedom gains a moral victory
So how stands freedom of the press in Alberta after Thursday’s Queen’s Bench decision tossing out the Boissoin human-rights panel ruling [PDF]? Justice E.C. Wilson’s reasons establish two big things,...
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Careful what you wish for, Prof. Mendes
Rebecca W/Flickr Political newspaper iPolitics.ca accidentally unearths a breaking story, as liberal law professor Errol Mendes uses its electronic pages to praise the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens...
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Not that stupid Jesus T-shirt again
Mike Dembeck/CP Images My grandmother is a God-fearing woman. She votes Conservative because she believes if she doesn’t, Israel might founder. If she were an American, she’d probably have voted for...
View ArticleThe Boissoin human-rights case—10 years in
The Alberta Court of Appeal tumbled another grenade into the thicket of Alberta human-rights law Wednesday, delivering its two cents’ worth on the case of Stephen Boissoin [PDF]. Boissoin, you may...
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Bully for you, free expression for me
Vicky Kasala/Getty Images Listen to Emma Teitel read this column: When the Internet was in its infancy, online anonymity was not cause for widespread governmental alarm, nor was it the constant topic...
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Islamists won’t kill free speech—we will
A man holds a pen up at Place de la République as thousands congregate on the day after the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, France on Jan. 8, 2015. (Nick Kozak) It is difficult not to be intemperate...
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