As expected after his conviction on one count of promoting hatred, Arthur Topham has launched his expected Charter challenge: B.C. man convicted of promoting hate on web to challenge law in court todayCanada’s Criminal Code provisions out of step with internet reality, Arthur Topham’s supporters sayBy Betsy Trumpener, CBC News
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Anti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Terry Tremaine Now Serving Contempt Sentence
As one of our readers pointed out, Terry Tremaine isn’t serving time because of hate speech posted online. He’s serving time for contempt, something our friend and frequent, frustrated, reader Tomasz Winnicki is himself intimately aware of. That fact hasn’t stopped Fromm from engaging in a bit of online histrionics:
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Last we heard Terry Tremaine was appealing his contempt of court conviction. Today, he learned that he was going straight to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.00 Ex-university teacher who posted racist messages headed for jailCBC News Posted: Sep 10, 2014 2:32 PM CT Last Updated: Sep
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: April Legal Notes
This really isn’t in any way intended to be a comprehensive article. We just thought we would share some information on the legal front. First, the deadline for Marc Lemire to seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court (re: the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision) was on April 1.
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Terry Tremaine Starting to Play Nice?
A visit to Tremaine’s website now features the following:That’s all well and good, but there appears to be a lot more that should be removed in order to be in compliance.It’s a start, though it looks to us to be just a start.But consider how many years…
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Tremaine Going to Jail
It's either 30 days or six months depending on if Terry decides to play nice. We're trying to see if we can get the reaction from the bonehead community and their supporters (if we do, we'll add it to this article later) but until then here…
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Paulie Clears Up Tremaine Story
You know, this might come as a huge shock to our readers, but the fine folks at Free Dominion don't seem to like us very much. We know! We can't believe it either! Not long ago they took issue with a recent article posted on this blog, particularly the part
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Free Dominion Cheer For the Nazi. Again
Last night we noticed that there was a new update concerning Terry Tremaine on CBC: Terry Tremaine no longer facing charges over alleged online activity CBC News Posted: Oct 16, 2012 6:05 PM CST A Regina judge has stayed a charge against Terry Tremaine, who was accused of continuing to
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Terry Tremaine: Dumb. Very Dumb.
On Monday we had suggested that we would likely learn what Terry Tremaine's sentence for contempt would be, however that obviously didn't happen. Today we learned a possible reason for the delay: Read more »
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Terry Tremaine: Judgement Day October 9, 2012
Any bets on the sentencing tomorrow? This writer thinks Tremaine will get time, but others figure he might get as much as 9 months, much like another bonehead sentenced for contempt (hi Tommy).
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Hate Speech Charges Stayed Against Tremaine
One of the justifications given by the Conservative government for the repeal of Se. 13 of the Human Rights Act was that it was, in effect, redundant. Hate speech law were already found in the criminal code, thus the criminal code should be used to fight hate speech. We here
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Topham Update and Tremaine Follow-Up
Sort of a short post but Doug Christie, in his latest newsletter, has announced when the Topham case take place: Christie also discussed information pertaining to the Tremaine case, much of which is already known: More later, but for now we’re enjoying the summer weather.
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Paulie Shows His Hand on Section 319
Well, it's not as if we didn't know this already. When the Conservatives voted to remove Sec. 13 from the Human Rights Act, they justified it in part because of the existence of Section 319 of the Criminal Code (in layman's terms, the hate crimes law) which they claimed was
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Tremaine Allowed to Post on Stormfront for "Research" Purposes
Sometimes we look at the decisions made by the judiciary and shake our heads in wonder. And not in a good way. White supremacist can seek help online in attempt to prove racist claims: court Adrian Humphreys Jul 3, 2012 – 11:14 PM ET Facing charges for online hate speech, a
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Sentencing For Terry Tremaine Set
Paul Fromm has been complaining about the delays. I assume then that he is happy about this. FURTHER TO the decision of the Federal Court of Appeal (2011 FCA 297) finding Mr. Tremaine in contempt and remitting the matter to the Federal Court judge for sentencing, and various case management conferences;
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Supreme Court Won’t Hear Tremaine’s Appeal
Terry Tremaine being honoured by fellow racist Paul Fromm I'll see what more about this I can find about this story. Reading it, is does seem to strengthen Human Rights legislation. Terry Tremaine Neo-Nazi case won’t be heard by Supreme Court, Human Rights Tribunal ruling stands Postmedia News Apr 26, 2012
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