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Welcome to Canada’s new blasphemy regime

By Vlad Tepes, published by RAIR Foundation USA In Brief by Probe Media A decision to allow a mosque in Regina to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer for about three minutes every Friday at noon via rooftop speakers has sparked noise complaints from residents, online criticism, and what the mosque called abusive messages and […]

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C-9 is an affront to free speech, but the government took it away long ago

By Bruce Pardy, first published by the National Post Bill C-9 (the Combatting Hate Act) is a dangerous overreach on free speech, but it’s just the latest symptom of a much deeper, long-standing erosion of free expression in Canada, argues law professor Bruce Pardy. True free speech, he says, isn’t about “reasonable” limits or social […]