Richard Moon

Canoeing in the sky.

Political expression should be protected — yes, even in a yearbook Censorship of political ideas only hinders students from becoming engaged citizens.

Op-Ed in Toronto Star about the Toronto school board’s censorship of political speech in school yearbooks. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Since Lester Pearson all PMs except Harper have been Catholic.

Yet most of our recent PMs have been Catholic.

YouTube video by Mike Adams The Beach Boys - God only knows (1966) fully restored video

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Border bill would give authorities sweeping security powers and restrict asylum claims The bill would grant Ottawa the power to halt or cancel the processing of immigration applications en masse if it is deemed in the public interest

While the Conservative Party did not win the election it appears that a conservative party did. This is more than disappointing.

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Captive Audiences and Bubble Zones | Centre for Free Expression Supporters of the recently enacted bubble zone by-law in Toronto argue that the law is necessary to protect individuals, who are entering and leaving places such as synagogues and religious schools, f...

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Ellie's film, Adult Adoption, is now available on Amazon Prime. Even though it had a small budget, it received glowing reviews, including a Critic's Pick from the Globe & Mail and inclusion on the Globe's list of the best films of the year.

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So instead you become a policy advisor.

Had the Conservatives been led by a more moderate leader - like Erin O’Toole or Jean Charest - they would have swept to power. Progressive voters would have been less afraid of a Tory gov and would not have abandoned the NDP.1/2

… says so. It could have been and could be otherwise. The people who reside in this particular territory (most of them a far distance from the oil) have no inherent claim to the resource.

“We have the oil” is an odd statement. Who is the ‘we’ and what does ‘have’ mean here. Leaving aside the claims that Indigenous communities might have, the prov of Alta - an entity that is the creation of the Cdn constitution - has jurisdiction over natural resources only because the Cdn const.. 1/2

There are not a lot of great Canadian shows (I say as a Canadian) Slings and Arrows is one. This is another - The Newsroom (not the one you are thinking of) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New...

Calling the Liberals “left” confirms that the meaning of the terms left and right has changed dramatically in the last 30 years.

Erin O’Toole would have cleaned up. But the party wants what the party (the base) wants.

Canadians opted for a ranked ballot system.

The active element of the CPC - the base - is hard right, even extreme and will no doubt continue to dominate nomination meetings, and leadership races. A moderate CPC leader would have won a clear majority. Still more than 40% voted for a Cdn version of the Republican Party.

The most active element of the party - the base - is hard right, even extreme. It will continue to dominate candidate nomination meetings, and leadership races. A more moderate Conservative leader would have won a clear majority.

I assume it’s not ‘woke’ if the researcher comes to the ‘correct’ conclusion - eg that Indigenous peoples were not wronged or that race is not a social construct (to quote Trump) etc.

Free speech on campus is a good thing. But once again who decides when limits on the right are justified - in the classroom, in the meeting room, in residence, in the open areas of the campus? This is all too Trump-like.

And who will decide when research is ‘woke’? When it is concerned with things such as religious freedom and discrimination or free speech and the regulation of hate speech or disinformation? Will the judgment it is woke depend on whether the writer reaches the ‘correct’ conclusion on these issues?

no plan to intervene until the pressure grew on all sides and his minority gov was at risk.

Seemed worth reposting

“Thou [Jesus] hast no business to return and thus hinder us in our work.” The Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov.

Of course those who have risen to power based on disinformation have an interest in preventing any attempt to limit or discourage the spread of disinformation.

The Life and Death of Freedom of Expression - University of Toronto Press This book examines a range of issues that stem from our commitment to freedom of expression and considers the implications of the shift to social media as the principal platform for public engagement.

A larger work published last year: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

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Harper’s Magazine letter exposes the crisis in our public discourse The Harper’s Magazine letter’s call for respect and tolerance is empty because there is no agreement in the community about which forms of speech should be tolerated and which fall outside the scope of legitimate discussion.

Not exactly. Academic pieces in bits here and there - but later. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

In 2010 I pitched a story to the Walrus about the spread of disinformation online (at the time on blogs) and how this was becoming a greater threat to public discussion than state censorship. They passed.