A free speech ruling that celebrates (of all things) free speech
MICHAEL TAUBE: PPC’s Maxime Bernier launched a defamation lawsuit against former Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella and his consulting firm Daisy Group ($)
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Who is to blame for the church burnings across Canada?
DON HUTCHINSON: Mainstream media may have lit the fuse, but there were accomplices (FREE)
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It’s too easy to blame Christianity for residential school deaths
GERRY CHIDIAC: Just like any human institution, religions are in a constant state of evolution. Just like any human, religious leaders make mistakes
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Gagging social media won’t halt criticism
EAMONN BROSNAN: Donald Trump recently lashed out at Twitter, claiming the company was interfering with his freedom of speech (FREE membership content)
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Canadians have become habituated to howling for political effect
PETER STOCKLAND: There’s still time to lower our voices, choose our words and stop talking long enough to listen to our neighbours (FREE)
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Language can calibrate a nation’s moral compass
MCEWAN: From Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King to Donald Trump, America offers examples – good and bad – of the power of language ($)
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The gutter-low standards of academic journals
PRICE: They don’t fact check. They don’t edit for clarity. They care nothing about meaning. And a trio of writers have exposed them ($$)
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Social media is fully weaponized, open discourse be damned
The Eden-like public square was swiftly overrun by a cacophonic rabble dedicated to crushing ideas to which they’re opposed
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Worried about the alt-right? Be the anti-right
The best way to reduce the possibility of more alt-right-inspired violence is to confront its narratives head on
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Intemperance and intolerance in campus culture clashes
Students of the snowflake generation feel empowered to videotape, confront and swarm professors with whom they disagree
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Social criticism is too important to leave to the trolls
PRICE Trolling requires a person to suspend thought. To hate any thought that isn’t their own. To smash, destroy and bully (PREMIUM membership content)
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Does white privilege debate promote racism against white people?
It’s difficult to predict where the white privilege debate will go in the coming years but it may involve a collision with our society’s most basic rules
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