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Transit police and free speech
rey-2012-10-15c.mp3In August 2012, members of an activist group distributing their newspaper at a Skytrain station were arrested and had their material confiscated. The BC Civil Liberties Association...
View ArticleCarleton University and the silencing of dissent
The attack on Canadian academics exercising the right to free speech, defending Palestinian human rights and critiquing Israeli racism and violations of Palestinian human rights, is on the rise. While...
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Five ways the new anti-mask Bill C-309 will affect activists and civil...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 Bill C-309 is the latest attempt by the Harper Government to strangle dissent. Specifically, it makes it illegal to wear a mask at an "unlawful" protest. Bill C-309 is the...
View ArticleFree speech in Pornland
No surprise here. The adult entertainment industry has followed through on their promise to file a suit against Los Angeles County, challenging Measure B, which passed in November, mandating condom use...
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Civil liberties group: Exclusion of public from Enbridge hearings...
Monday, January 14, 2013 The BC Civil Liberties Association has written to the President of the National Energy Board to challenge the Board's decision to close the Vancouver and Victoria public...
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Democracy, leadership conventions and the voting fallacy
Friday, January 25, 2013Ontario Liberals hold their leadership convention this weekend at Maple Leaf Gardens -- a great choice of venue. The event belongs to a dying breed: brokered conventions. That...
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Coalition documents suppression of dissent in Canada
rey-2013-02-06a.mp3The Voices-Voix coalition says the government has undermined democratic institutions, eroded free speech, and deliberately silenced individuals who disagree with their policies. In...
View ArticleYou want proof that criminalization works? Look no further than the feminist...
Yesterday,The Nation and Tom Dispatch published an epic, historical look at the successes of the feminist movement over the past fifty-odd years and the long road ahead.In the article, Ruth Rosen...
View ArticleOnly dictatorships jail poets: On Qatar, Al Jazeera and free speech
"You can't have Al Jazeera in this country and put me in jail for being a poet."So said Muhammad Ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami, who has now been in jail in Qatar for over a year. His crime was that he posted a...
View ArticleSupport free speech: Canadian Arab Federation vs. Jason Kenney in Court
Tue, May 28, 2013 For three days this week, the Canadian Arab Federation (CAF) will appear in federal court to make its case against Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason Kenney. For three days...
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Searching for free speech advocates in Canada's public discourse
Friday, November 8, 2013I attended the trial of David Suzuki (for treason) this week, an elegantly staged performance piece with real lawyers, judge and Suzuki at the ROM, part of a city-wide Climate...
View ArticleWho gets muzzled next by unconstitutional Redford Government laws?...
Now that the Redford Government's unconstitutional attack on free collective bargaining and free speech is in full swing, we have to ask ourselves who’s next?Environmentalists?Quite possibly.I mean,...
View ArticleWith free expression under assault in Alberta, where's 'free speech advocate'...
Where's Ezra Levant now that we need him?Levant, after all, is frequently billed as Canada's foremost "free speech advocate," although mostly by himself and his friends in the headline writing...
View ArticleDisrupting Phil Fontaine puts focus on the right to be heard
Much critical commentary has been directed at Aboriginal students and others who disrupted a recent talk by Phil Fontaine. I would like to offer a response that is different, but that nevertheless...
View ArticleCanadian NGOs will weather Harper's censorship storm
Not terrorists, white-collar crooks or climate change. It seems the real threat to Canadian society hides behind a much friendlier face: charities. Or to be more specific, charities critical of the...
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Public Lecture: First Peoples, Palestine, and the Crushing of Free Speech
Mon, Jan 12, 2015 A public lecture by Steven Salaita at SFU's Institute for the Humanities. Public lecture by Steven Salaita in the Segal Rooms.Monday, January 12, 2015, 7:30pm–9:30pm, Segal Rooms, SFU...
View ArticleFirst peoples, Palestine and the crushing of free speech
Mon, Jan 12, 2015 Seriously Free Speech Committee-Vancvouer presents Professor Steven Salaita on "First peoples, Palestine and the crushing of free speech." Seriously Free Speech Committee-Vancvouer...
View ArticleCharlie Hebdo murders show some speakers are freer than others
The shocking murder of nine journalists and three others in a brazen, coordinated attack in the offices of French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo demands sympathy for the victims' families and has...
View ArticleBeyond Freedom of Speech for white men
Last year, the Values Charter plunged Québec into a bitter identity debate. Presented by the Parti Québecois, the Charter sought to make Québec a more secular state. Not by removing the hundreds of...
View ArticleCharlie Hebdo and the meaning of a massacre
Two jihadists, the brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, stormed the offices of Charlie Hebdo on January 7, and killed ten of its staff members and two police officers. This much is clear, undebatable,...
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