What would one call a rushed effort to pass a censorship bill?:
The Liberal government’s push to speed up the passage of its controversial broadcasting bill C-10 before Parliament breaks for summer is set to hit a wall at the Senate.
There is no appetite among a majority of senators to fast-track the bill, which they believe needs further study, senators belonging to different groups told the National Post on a background basis.
And why is that?
According to the senators quoted in the article above, the bill has not been thoroughly reviewed (but it certainly has been rushed through).
The senators are either being honest in saying that the bill needs a thorough review or are being diplomatic in not wanting to touch this with a ten foot barge pole.
I think it is the former.
Also - until Canada has the equivalent of the First Amendment, there is no real freedom of speech and the law was Wynne's first, so, there's that:
The Ontario government used the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause for the first time in the province’s history on Monday, for the purpose of overriding the guarantee to free expression in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in order to pass legislation to limit election advertising.
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Six hundred million reasons why the popular press is not objective:
Yet, in a recent series of Tweets, Alan Fryer a former journalist with both CBC and CTV who has worked in Montreal, Ottawa, Moscow, Washington, and Toronto, ripped into how the network covered Green Party Leader Annamie Paul’s denunciation of Justin Trudeau.
(Sidebar: this denunciation.)
Justin is a creep, a groper, a liar, a fraud and a hypocrite. At this point, everyone knows it. No matter how spirited the defense by the official mouthpiece of Canada and by his nasty, little hobbit, everyone knows it by now. The airbrushing comes off as polishing excrescence.
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Let's say this sort of thing happened in, oh, Japan or somewhere. Who wouldn't face jail time?:
After his department was found in contempt of Parliament for failing to provide top-secret documents to a special House committee, the head of Canada’s federal health agency said he now finds himself in an “extraordinary situation” unlike any he has witnessed in his nearly 30-year career.
Iain Stewart, president of the Public Health Agency of Canada, did not clarify whether he intends to adhere to a parliamentary request for him to appear before the House of Commons on Monday to receive an “admonishment” by the Speaker.
The extremely rare reprimand, requested as part of an opposition motion, comes after PHAC has declined for weeks to provide documents to a parliamentary committee that might explain why two scientists were fired from Canada’s highest-security infectious disease lab earlier this year.
Stewart and other federal officials say providing such uncensored information could amount to a breach of security law, including of the Privacy Act. That has in turn put the long-time civil servant in an especially difficult position, he said, balancing concerns between defending national security and meeting the will of Parliament.
Bull. Sh--.
He is covering for an incompetent government whose callous disregard for the safety of Canadians and has caused thousands of deaths and a destruction of the global economy.
Make the b@$#@rd talk.
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The CBC will turn off Facebook comments for articles after "social media attacks" on journalists. Editor-in-chief for the CBC, Brodie Felton, posted that the disabling of the comments feature was going to be an "experiment."
Felton's reasoning is that the mental health of journalists is just too fragile to allow public commentary. He writes: "Compounding the stress and anxiety of journalists is the vitriol and harassment many of them face on social media platforms and, increasingly, in the field."
Jonathan Kay, Quillette editor, author and National Post columnist, shared his take on the "experiment," saying that among the "plenty of good reasons to turn of comments... journalistic anxiety isn't one of them."
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The federal Liberals are being accused of letting down victims of military sexual misconduct as a parliamentary committee prepares to rise for the summer without producing a report on the government's handling of allegations involving former defence chief Jonathan Vance.
The House of Commons' defence committee has been investigating the government's handling of complaints against Vance as well as current chief of defence staff Admiral Art McDonald since allegations against the two first emerged in February.
Yet opposition members say nearly a month of Liberal filibustering has prevented the committee from finishing its final report before the House of Commons rises for the summer and a possible fall election.
It has also kept two other reports, including one on access to mental health for service members, from being tabled in the House of Commons.
(Sidebar: this mishandling.)
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The RCMP officers dispatched to apprehend an active shooter in Portapique, N.S., last spring thought they were hearing gunshots long after the shooter had killed 13 people and fled the scene, according to a newly released statement from a senior Mountie.
The lone gunman, disguised as a Mountie and driving a replica RCMP cruiser, left the village by driving through a field around 10:35 p.m., nine minutes after the first RCMP cruiser arrived at the scene on the night of April 18, 2020, the RCMP have previously disclosed.
The suspect went on to fatally shoot another nine people the next day in three other communities before he was killed by police at a gas station north of Halifax.
In an affidavit sworn on June 3, RCMP Supt. Darren Campbell said officers reported hearing gunfire in the rural enclave as late as 2:50 a.m. on April 19, 2020, even though the Mounties later confirmed a witness had spotted the gunman escaping more than four hours earlier. Campbell's statement provides no explanation for the discrepancy, though there has been speculation the bangs could have been coming from homes the gunman had set on fire, including his own.
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