Freedom of expression does not exist under the government that we prop up in Afghanistan. That sad truth of that was verified yet again as Reuters reported, “Afghanistan’s appeal court sentenced an Afghan journalist to 20 years in jail, commuting an earlier death sentence, for distributing an Internet article that said the Prophet Mohammad had…
The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has thrown out a complaint alleging that a Mark Steyn piece in Maclean’s exposed Muslims to hatred and contempt, on the basis of their religion, in breach of s. 7(1)(b) of the Human Rights Code…
An attempt by prosecutors and Conrad Black to have evidence about his case sealed indefinitely has failed, with a final refusal by the Supreme Court of Canada to hear the case “Conrad M. Black v. Bell Globemedia Publishing Inc.” The court turned down Black’s appeal of an Ontario Court of Appeal decision. The appeals court…
How to interview a street person: “Don’t assume I’m stupid,” says an adviser quoted in the Globe and Mail. “Don’t assume I don’t have skills. Don’t assume I don’t come from your world.” The advice is part of a profile of Jody Paterson, former managing editor of the Victoria broadsheet who is now teaching writing…
Questions: people want to know… Is the CBC “trying to make itself more palatable to the majority Conservative government that may be coming our way?” Where, when it comes to Heather Mallick, are the defenders of free speech who supported Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant? And opinions: so far more than 73 per cent of J-Source…
Amy Goodman, founder and host of the U.S. syndicated radio and television program “Democracy Now!” was named as a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award …
A case study in crisis management and media relations, China, 2008: “Please can the government increase control and coordination of the media, to create a good environment for the recall of the company’s problem products …
Owen Lippert, a PhD historian with a lengthy track record in Canadian public policy and politics, including a term on the Globe and Mail’s editorial board in 1996, has admitted to plagiarism, apologized and resigned from the Conservative party’s election campaign. Lippert admitted that he wrote a speech for Stephen Harper, as then-leader of the…
An editorial in the New York Times urges the American Senate to support legislation to prevent American courts from enforcing libel judgments obtained in foreign countries if those countries provide less free speech protection than the United States does. Excerpts: “The bill on “libel tourism” strikes an important blow for free expression. American law imposes…
You cannot, in Canada, link a U.S. vice-presidential candidate with the phrases “white trash” and “porn-actress look” and get away with it, as columnist Heather Mallick found out this week when the CBC pulled her column.