Pam Geller has been banned from the U.K. for espousing views not “conducive to the public good”. She is, let us just say, chuffed, and her Canuck supporters overfoam with hatred and rage. Here’s part of the letter Ms. Geller received: A bit of a local angle to this story. Pam
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Tory Appointees Move To Muscle Bill C-304 Through Senate
The link is to Marc Lemire’s site (one-time leader of the white supremacist Heritage Front), so you may not want to click though, but what he’s saying sounds right: the Senate Tories are no longer allowing their Liberal counter-parts to adjourn debate on Bill C-304. By the end of the
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LeBreton confirms #SenCA will sit into July if necessary to pass bills on order paper, including C-377. #cdnpoIi— Jordan Press (@jordan_press) June 18, 2013 The other bill they want to pass is C-304, which would strip section 13 (the hate speech clause) from the Canadian Human Rights Act. When Senate
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Whither Bill C-304?
With Senator Doug Finley’s passing, Bill C-304, the Harper government’s attempt to repeal Canada’s hate speech legislation, has lost its Senate champion. The bill was already stalled in the upper chamber. I wonder if these latest sad events will further impede its progress.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Your Daily Nazi: Help Save Canada’s Hate Speech Law!
If you missed reading through one the links in my last post, the Harper Tories are trying to force Bill C-304 (which would repeal the hate-speech provision in the Canadian Human Rights Act) through the Senate before their late June convention so they can toss some red meat to the
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Idle No More Racism Watch: Manitoba Newspaper’s Racist Editorial
The CBC News is reporting that Gavin van der Linde, the mayor of Morris, a southern Manitoba town, is “furious over what he calls racist comments about aboriginal people in the latest edition of the community newspaper”. The editorial of the Morris Mirror’s current edition (PDF), penned by editor-in-chief Reed Turcotte, also labels
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: The day Canada’s white supremacists saluted Stephen Harper
So far, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s ideology-inspired of project of social and political engineering expresses itself most eloquently as the Conservatives’ egregious assault on civil liberties, the metamorphosis of Canada into a petro-state, and militarization of both Canadian society and foreign policy. We’re yet to acknowledge how this project oppresses
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Bill C-304 Up For Debate?
According to this site, Storseth’s private member’s bill to repeal Section 13 (the hate-speech provision) of the Canadian Human Rights Act was debated again in the HOC yesterday. Not a single other mention of it in the MSM that I can find. The gov. and press are sure keeping this on the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: New Government Hate Crime Initiatives Will Outlaw Linking To Hate Speech
Joe Brean is usually careful about these stories, so though I don’t see where anyone in the gov. has said this explicitly, I will assume he’s got it right re the criminal code enhancements that will offset the repeal of Section 13 of the CHRA: One of the Criminal Code enhancements
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Corneliu Chisu’s Office Responds
According to the following, The Tory MP’s staffers did not know who Marc Lemire was when they replied to his request for Mr. Chisu’s support re Bill C-304:We respond to individuals who write in to our office, regardless of political affiliation or…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Your Daily Nazi: Tory MP’s Office Sends Letter Of Support To White Nationalist Marc Lemire
Here’s the letter:And here’s the source. And here’s some background on Mr. Lemire, including his wiki entry, from which I quote: “Lemire was the last president of the often violent Heritage Front organization from January 1, 2001 until the organi…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Storseth "Free Speech" Bill Unlikely To Pass
The story’s claim of all-party criticism of the bill is overblown, as the only Tory they could find to speak out was Senator Nancy Ruth. Nevertheless, I think Joe Comartin is correct when he says:“The Prime Minister, on more than one occa…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Your Daily Nazi, Part II: Storseth’s Bill To Empower The Nazis
…due up for a vote in February 2012 or so. So says Kady O’Malley, who writes:…Storseth’s bid to repeal the clause of the CHRA that governs the transmission of “hate messages” by telephone or online is likely to be one of the more contentious privat…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Campaign To Repeal Section 13 of Human Rights Act Off To Blistering Start!
After nearly a week, FreeD’s petition on behalf of MP Brian Storseth’s Bill C-304 (to repeal the Hate Speech clause of the Canadian Human Rights Act) has gathered a whopping 19 signatures. But numbers don’t tell the whole story. Galact…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Your Daily Nazi: Support Rises For Storseth Private Member’s Bill Among Canadian Neo-Nazis!
From here:Yeah, its that Paul Fromm. And of course Heritage Front leader Marc Lemire is down with the repeal as well:Mr. Storseth, you must be so proud.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: My Bad
Storseth’s private Member’s bill to repeal section 13 of the Human Rights Act (C-304) was indeed introduced Friday. And it looks like an act, not a mere motion. I was looking at the wrong order papers. Here’s a newspaper ac…
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