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Post-Darwinist (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Seven years into his "lifetime speech ban" and - basically falling down a black hole as far as his life was concerned - Stephen Boissoin has been acquitted. His Alberta "human rights" Commission conviction has been overturned. Civil rights lawyer Ezra Levant explains: Ezra Levant explains : Late last week, the Court of Queen's Bench overturned the Alberta Human Rights Commission's...
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Russ Campbell's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
T he “professional” Canadian human rights community—you know, the ones who make money from so called hate speech—received another body blow last week when the Court of Queen’s Bench overturned the Alberta Human Rights Commission’s conviction of Rev. Stephen Boissoin for alleged “hate speech.” (See Ezra Levant’s blog for details at Rev. Stephen...
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The News Cruncher (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Victory, victory, victory: A Court of Queen's Bench judge has ruled an anti-gay letter written by a former Alberta pastor in 2002 was not a hate crime and is allowed under freedom of speech. Justice E.C. Wilson overturned a 2008 ruling by the Alberta Human Rights Commission that the letter by Stephen Boissoin that was published in the Red Deer Advocate broke provincial law. At the time, the commission...
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Persecuted Church Weblog (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
The Voice of the Martyrs welcomes a Queen of Court of Queen's Bench judge ruling on Thursday overturning a December 2007 ruling by the Alberta Human Rights Commission that a letter by Stephen Boissoin that was published in the Red Deer Advocate broke provincial law against spreading hatred. Justice E.C. Wilson ruled that the human rights panel chair Lori Andreachuk had made many errors in her
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Religion Clause (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
In June 2008 in the Canadian province of Alberta, the Human Rights and Citizenship Commission ordered pastor Stephen Boissoin and his Concerned Christian Coalition to stop publishing and broadcasting disparaging remarks about gays, after earlier finding that a letter Boisson published in the Red Deer Advocate incited hatred against homosexuals in violation of the province's human rights law. The Commission...
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Amanda Lindhout managed to file just one report from Mogadishu for the Red Deer Advocate before she was kidnapped in August 2008. (She was released last week.) I would deem her dispatch to be an above-average piece of foreign correspondence, and an effective portrait of what is, essentially, anarchy. She interviewed desperate women waiting in line at a chaotic food distribution centre, and a local...
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Dr Roy's Thoughts (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
My friends from the Canadian Constitution Foundation report a partial victory in the Rev Boissoin case. Unfortunately the hrc law was not found unconstitutional. The ruling of the hrc was vacated, but Rev. Boissoin suffered a lot of damage. The fight is far from over. We must get rid of the federal hrc section 13.1. I urge the Alberta government to get rid of this odious law. CALGARY: The Canadian...
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CNNMoney.com (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Many experienced campers have had food ruined by melted ice in a cooler. Most get over it. But when it happened to Canadian robotics lab technician Paul Lavallee on a trip to Alberta's Red Deer River, he vowed to make a better kind of cooler.
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MasterMaq's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
A very interesting event took place in Red Deer this weekend called Reboot Alberta. Participants discussed the state of politics in Alberta, and explored ways to “reboot” things. I was invited, but decided to stay home. I’m not as well-versed in provincial politics as others and I was unsure what I would be able to [...]
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MasterMaq's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Here are my weekly notes: I stayed in Edmonton this weekend, but I had my eye on Red Deer where Reboot Alberta was taking place. I’ll have more on that soon, but it sounds like I missed a great time! On the other hand, I got to accompany Sharon to the Greens, Eggs & Ham farm on [...]
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CIS Hoops.ca (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
The second full weekend of CW interlocking play is scheduled for this weekend and thus far the Pacific Division leads by a solid 9-3 after games played two weekends ago... There will be 12 more interlocking games played this weekend with #2 UBC and UVic travelling to Winnipeg to face the Wesmen and Manitoba Bisons, while Calgary and Lethbridge face off in a pair of games against #8 Simon Fraser and...
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The News Cruncher (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Proof that broadcast networks could not survive if it were not for distribution by cable and satellite: Those last five years were difficult for the station [CHCA in Red Deer, Alberta]. Though its signal covered a sizable swath of central Alberta, more than half the viewers had switched to satellite, which did not carry the signal. Advertising revenue declined, and the station, which carried two hours...
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The night before Alberta Tories cast their votes on his leadership, I asked Ed Stelmach what message he had for party members unhappy with the direction of his government. His response was almost incredulous. "What direction?" the provincial Premier wanted to know, insisting on specifics. When I told him that members in Calgary had been complaining that he wouldn't listen to them about changes...
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The Shotgun (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Christmas has come early for Danielle Smith and the Wildrose Alliance. In Red Deer on Saturday night, Alberta Progressive Conservative party members voted 77.4% in favour Premier Ed Stelmach’s continued leadership of the party. According to a report in the...
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach receives 77 per cent support in a leadership review vote by Progressive Conservative delegates meeting in Red Deer.
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aarkstore | 10/24/2009
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