David Thomas, the former Chair of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, sounds the alarm over Justin Trudeau's new proposed Online Harms bill which, if passed, could put you in prison for so-called hate speech.
Polls have consistently put the Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre in firm majority territory, with some showing the Liberals almost in third place behind the NDP. Also, the federal government's proposed online hate speech ban is coming under fire for having such an ill-defined test for what constitutes hate speech. Andrew discusses with law...
This legislation authorizes house arrest and electronic tagging for a person considered likely to commit a future crime. It's right there in the text: if a judge believes there are reasonable grounds to "fear" a future hate crime, the as of yet innocent party can be sentenced to house arrest, complete with electronic tagging, mandatory drug...
A motion to launch a parliamentary investigation into a national security incident at Canada's top infectious disease laboratory in Winnipeg was shut down by the Liberals on Monday, with the support of the NDP.
In addition to going ahead with a scheduled payment in April of $25 million, Canada's international development minister also intends to announce new funding, according to a senior government official. The Canadian government announced a pause on funding in January after Israel alleged that 12 employees of UNRWA were involved in some capacity in...
The world is clamoring for a ceasefire. Israel must stop the fighting and give the gazans a break. Really? Did Israel ask for this war? There are 134 Israeli men, women, children and babies being held hostage in grim, primitive conditions in gaza. For a ceasefire to happen, Israel is asking for the names of who the living hostages are...
A sad fact of human nature – as history shows – is that many people wait and see which side looks most likely to win. Regardless of what each side believes. Regardless of the consequences of one side winning over the other. Many people wait in the middle and play it safe until a clear winner emerges. And right now,...
The group released a "Call to Action" featuring six planks, including a demand that Hamas release all hostages in Gaza, the Canadian defunding of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), as well as designating the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist entity.
It was later revealed by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) that Qiu worked closely with a number of Chinese institutions, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and had travelled extensively to China, sometimes without her employer's full knowledge, to transfer scientific knowledge and materials that would benefit the PRC.
The assault on David was part of a sustained violation of our civil rights as journalists. We've got mountains of evidence to prove it. And today is the day we fight back.
