Why I’m not so critical about Justin Trudeau lately
As regular customers know, I’m a Democrat. Large “D.” I work on Democratic Party campaigns as a volunteer. In 2016, I worked for Hillary in three states, including her Brooklyn…
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Breaking news: opposition research firm does opposition research
From CBC, earlier today: On his Kinsellacast podcast, an unapologetic Kinsella said the campaign to spotlight racists who attached themselves to the fledgling party was not supposed to extend into…
My latest: this isn’t the face of a Prime Minister
Blackface. I’ve been writing about, and researching – and opposing – racism for more than thirty years. And make no mistake: blackface isn’t funny. It’s racist. Ask Megyn Kelly. A…
Hate rag editor gets a year in jail
Finally. James Sears, the editor of the so-called newspaper called Your Ward News, was finally sentenced this afternoon in a Toronto courtroom to one year in jail. He’d been convicted…
Testifying at Parliament on Social Media Oversight
My address to the House of Commons Committee on Justice and Human Rights, on how government can or should combat the spread of hatred on social media platforms. Democracy’s most…
My latest, on the so-called “digital charter”
The Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development blinked. Then he blinked again. He has just been asked if his government’s “Digital Charter” would apply to his own political party.…
Pray for Justin’s Jeremy
Pause, for a moment, to say a prayer for Jeremy Broadhurst. A few days ago, Broadhurst was named the campaign director for the Liberal Party of Canada’s 2019 re-election effort.…
Nazis? Just when you think he can’t get any lower, Trudeau does
“Dirty Jew.” It’s the Summer of 1986. The place: Caroline, Alta., just outside Red Deer. The slur has been uttered by Terry Long, the “High Aryan Warrior Priest” of the…
One Easy Method to Stop Hate: Don’t be “Edgy”
Filter bubbles are real and impact our world in the most serious of ways. The recent massacre in New Zealand has shown this all too well. You’re probably wondering if…
One way Canada can fight hate, right away
Talk is cheap. If the Trudeau government is serious about stopping the spread of hate, here’s something they can do this week. Will they? (Oh, and one Minister was looking…
Less Open Debates for a More Open Democracy
The last few years of this bizarre decade have witnessed the resurgence of hate groups. Some of these hate groups are just nicer sounding Nazis and that’s a really bad…
Hate and extremism in the Trump era – today at U of C’s Faculty of Law, live
This afternoon, I will be doing the Merv Leitch Memorial Lecture at my alma mater, the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Law. The topic, as the poster says, is the…
Our fight against that neo-Nazi hate rag
Story link is here, and a bit of it is below. Meanwhile, Lisa will be speaking tomorrow night at an anti-hate forum being led by a great leader in the…
The Tyranny of the Triggered
Modern society has become an ever expanding landscape of polarization and finger pointing that not only undermines our ability to discuss, but corrodes at the very foundation of our democracy.…
The Tyranny of the Triggered
Modern society has become an ever expanding landscape of polarization and finger pointing that not only undermines our ability to discuss, but corrodes at the very foundation of our democracy.…
Trump may have emboldened hate in Canada, but it was already here
While many Canadians often associate the continuing rise in white supremacist hate in Canada to US President Donald Trump’s divisive rhetoric, the right-wing extremist movement was already “alive and well”…
Charlottesville – likely just the beginning
In the space of a decade or so, public debates over differences in policy in US politics have been replaced by mud-slinging over differences in colour, religion and heritage. Obamacare…
Hate Speech is Free Speech
I know, you’re reading my entry title and thinking, wow…that is one bold statement or rather, what the hell is this guy thinking!? Free speech is a right that all…
Hate Speech is Free Speech
I know, you're reading my entry title and thinking, wow...that is one bold statement or rather, what the hell is this guy thinking!? Free speech is a right that all…
When Trudeau Met Trump
The saying goes…men and woman cannot be friends, they are bound to become lovers or fall apart. While it may seem like this has nothing directly to do with today’s…