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The Legacy Media is Betraying Canadian

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The Legacy Media is Betraying Canadians
Liberal governments have never been reluctant to spend taxpayers’ money to advance their policies or the party itself. This has never been more blatant than in its policy to provide generous funding to the legacy media as well as funding to favoured journalists directly. To keep this money flowing into their pockets, journalists and media respond to this largess by writing favourably and uncritically about the Liberal party and its policies. The Liberals, of course do not portray this funding for what it is, namely, bribery. Instead, they describe this funding in glowing, uplifting terms. For example, Finance Minister Bill Morneau (2015-2020) stated:
“A strong and independent news media is crucial to a well-functioning democracy. It empowers citizens by providing them with the information they need to make sound decisions on important issues.” He further stated that government-funded media would “provide Canadians with reliable and informed journalism.”



Alarmingly, the Liberals fund:
The Canada Periodical Fund ($86 million) projected for 2024-2025 for print magazines and community newspapers which includes a new Changing Narrative Fund which supports “diverse communities and organizations, including Indigenous, Black, racialized, ethno-religious minorities, 2SLGBTQI+ and persons with disabilities” who will “have their stories, experiences and perspectives better represented….”

Further, the Journalism Labour Tax Credit ($65 million), provides a salary subsidy of 35% capped at $85,000 for eligible media organizations. Other subsidies from Google’s Online News Act agreement add an estimated $18,000 per journalist. In addition to this federal generosity, some provinces provide additional tax credits which in some cases can lead to state coverage of 100% of a journalist’s salary.

There are two other government programs contributing to the Changing Narrative Fund: Canada Media Fund, ($154 million for television, wireless devices and Internet), and Local Journalism Initiative ($19 million for aids in hiring journalists to produce content for “underserved communities”).

The CBC No discussion of government grants to legacy media would be complete without mentioning one of Mark Carney’s first decisions after being elected Prime Minister. Building upon the corruption first introduced by Justin Trudeau, Carney gave a further grant of $150 million to the CBC in addition to its annual taxpayer funding of $1.4 billion (2024-2025). Consequently, the CBC is an adoring disciple of Carney. It no longer employs real journalists but puppets prostrating themselves at Carney’s feet. The CBC is not a source of news but is a propaganda machine for the government and the Liberal Party. Is it any wonder then that in 2023, the CBC reported that 96.6% of TV-viewing Canadians do not watch CBC’s prime-time programming?

Legacy Media Keeps Missing the Stories
Taxpayer funding costing billions of dollars in annual subsidies has NOT produced “a strong and independent media” from which Canadians could obtain “reliable and informed journalism” as stated by former Finance Minister Morneau.  Just the opposite has occurred. As a result, it has never been more important to monitor, question and doubt legacy media reporting, especially on matters of government policy and the integrity of our political classes.
For those paying attention, there is now abundant evidence that the legacy media is betraying Canadians by providing biased news coverage and failing to empower “citizens by providing them with the information they need to make sound decisions on important issues.” In doing so, the legacy media is actively misinforming Canadians. Incidentally, knowingly spreading false information intended to do harm is a criminal offence under s. 372 of the Criminal Code.

Hard Evidence of Legacy Media Betrayal
With the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, a recent study commissioned by the independent multimedia outlet Juno News, recorded significant media bias during the 2025 election cycle. Using ChatGPT, the AI search engine graded and scored every article, editorial comment and television segment, and came up with revealing statistics on the coverage of Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre during the 36-day election campaign ending April 28, 2025.

The most serious offenders were found to be The Globe and Mail which boasts that it provides “the most authoritative news” and is “trusted Canadian journalism;” followed by CBC News which vaunts its commitment to “accuracy, fairness, balance, impartiality and integrity;” followed by CTV News which claims “trusted reporting” on national and international news.


The study’s Bias Scoreboard resulted in the following: The Globe and Mail: Carney +9, Poilievre -15 CBC News:                              Carney +5, Poilievre -11 CTV News:                              Carney +3, Poilievre – 9
The Tilt Scoreboard measurements were: The Globe and Mail:                Tilt 1-2 (heavily pro-Carney) CBC News:                              Tilt 2-3 (heavily pro-Carney) CTV News:                              Tilt ~3 (pro-Carney)
According to the Juno News article “The legacy media is lying to us.  Now we have proof.” Carney received “across the board praise and compliments” while Conservative leader, Poilievre received “significant negative coverage” of his policies, strategies and communications style.
During the election campaign, Canadians who consumed exclusively government funded reporting, were deprived of a wider spectrum of opinion and were corralled into Liberal friendly news narratives, which contributed to the election of Mark Carney as Prime Minister.

Mark Carney’s Permanent Media Honeymoon
Now that the election is over, Carney continues to float on a cloud of uncritical adulation by the legacy media. Canadians are now experiencing media coverage which provides Carney with a permanent honeymoon. The taxpayer funded media is consistently portraying Carney as a hardworking, earnest warrior charging on his white horse across the country, here and there, solving Canada’s problems. It continues to cover up for him. Behind the scenes, however, Carney is fundamentally changing Canada to fit his own left-wing extremist beliefs. The legacy media’s coverup of Carney includes the following:
Overspending
During the election, Carney sold Canadians on the idea that he was different from Justin Trudeau. This statement was based on his economic background, that would enable him to solve Canada’s failing economy. Since Trudeau first became Prime Minister in 2015, he doubled the government’s debt to about $1.3 trillion dollars. Although Carney will not be releasing a budget until the fall, the Liberal platform indicates that it will add another $225 billion to the debt over the next four years. The federal government released its main spending plan, formerly known as the Main Estimates, providing evidence that Carney intends to go on a spending spree. Spending for 2025-26 will increase to $488 billion – 8.4% higher than last year’s Trudeau Main Estimates. Spending increases occur in about 80% of federal departments, with agencies increasing by more than 20% over last year’s estimates.

Intensifying Ties with Communist China and the Leftist European Union
Carney is intensifying efforts to strengthen ties with communist China and the European Union, and trying to loosen Canada’s natural trade ties with the U.S. By doing so, he is ignoring the fact that Communist China has been proven to: interfere in Canadian elections; is undermining Canada’s sovereignty in the Arctic; has stolen critical information from Canadian universities and laboratories; has bought and controls Canada’s natural resources; and has established fentanyl drug labs in BC and is trafficking in these drugs both in the US and Canada, the proceeds being laundered through our national banks.
Despite this reality, Carney is trying intensely to move Canada’s trade from the US by ignoring the fact that the Canadian economy is structurally tied to the US economy. Canada’s infrastructure has been designed to support trade through railways, trucking routes, and pipelines. Europe and Asia cannot replace the accessibility or scale of the US market. Additionally, the economy is closely aligned with the US dollar, and a major pivot would expose Canada to currency volatility. Canada may strengthen ties with other nations, but it cannot write off its top trading partner, the United States.

Adopting Muslim Values
On June 6, 2025, the anniversary of Canada’s brave soldiers sacrificing their lives on Juno Beach in Normandy in 1944, Carney chose to attend a Muslim celebration called the Eid Ala-Adna, hosted by the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC). During his speech Carney said, “Muslim values are Canadian values”, and that all Canadians must come together to support them. By this statement Carney has ignored the fact that Canada was founded on Christian values and principles, not those of Islam. One wonders also whether Carney’s support of Muslim values includes their hatred of Jews, a desire to vanquish Israel, clogging up Canadian streets with protests denouncing Jews, the burning of synagogues, polygamy, child marriages and the subjection of women.
In the audience at the Muslim celebration, some participants were wearing Palestinian keffiyehs. After Carney left the stage, chants of free Palestine could be heard in the audience before a livestream video cut out.

Federal Summer Jobs Program


The Federal Summer Jobs program which, under the Liberals, refuses to fund Christians who are pro-life and pro-family, is currently funding left-wing controversial Islamic organizations, even though the beliefs of these organizations are on the fringes of Canadian life. Regardless, The Muslim Association of Canada has become a major beneficiary of the Canadian Summer Jobs Program, with several of its centers across the country approved for funding. In addition, the MAC has 69 job openings posted on the government’s website for several camp counsellors and office positions. Yet in a 2021 audit, Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) recommended that MAC have its charitable status revoked on the basis that some of its directors and employers were involved with the HAMAS support network. The MAC recently hosted Sami Hamdi at their Mississauga Convention, who publicly stated that the October 7, 2023, massacre of 1,200 and abduction of 240 Israeli by Hamas should be celebrated as a victory by Palestinians. Despite this, in 2023, the MAC received nearly $6 million in government funding, thousands of which came through the Summer Jobs Program.


Pipelines
Carney refuses to support a new pipeline to get Alberta’s oil and gas to tidewater. He has also refused to repeal Trudeau’s insane Oil Tanker Moratorium Act (Bill C-48) which effected a West Coast tanker ban, and the Impact Assessment Act and Canadian Energy Regulator Act (Bill C-69) which prevent new energy projects from being undertaken. Yet on the other hand, Carney is pushing through Bill C-5, An Act to enact the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act and the Building Canada Act, which are supposed to encourage new projects of national importance (to be determined, of course, by Carney). This troubling contradiction has not been raised by the legacy media.
There has not been a murmur of criticism by the legacy media about any of these deplorable actions and statements by Carney.

Why is the Legacy Media Silent?
It is easy to understand why Carney is committing our country to these unsavory undertakings: Carney is totally and utterly a left-wing, globalist central planner who wants Canada to follow his own personal left-wing globalist agenda, which includes adopting policies in support of Palestine over Israel, climate change, and global control of resources.  Moreover, as a practical matter, with Muslims now comprising 4.9% of the Canadian population—and growing, and whereas the Jewish population is less than 1%, Carney wants the Muslim votes and is willing to pay the price regardless of what Canadians think about it.
The Legacy Media’s silence is just as easy to understand when one considers three factors: first, of course, is money. Legacy Media is being paid by the taxpayer, via the government, not to provide objective, critical reportage on the latest government foibles, but to publish a narrative that accords with government policies; second, Legacy Media by and large not only operates within the same Leftist world view as the political/bureaucratic elites, but are also themselves members or would be members of that elite, so in a very real sense, Legacy Media sees nothing inherently wrong or problematic with the government’s progressive narrative; and third, Legacy Media lacks the intellectual acumen to objectively report on the major issues of the day not only because of the complexity of most issues, but because the Legacy Media lacks historical perspective, critical thinking-skills and the moral courage to tell the truth. It is as simple and complex as that.
Parliamentary democracy and Responsible Government “work”, to the extent that they do, due in no small part to Freedom of the Press. A media dependent upon government handouts for its survival is incompatible with a “free and democratic society” which is why every Canadian should be concerned and appalled by the current state of affairs.

On the Road in Ontario With Political Prisoner & Freedom Fighter Bill Whatcott

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Whatcott in Ontario: LGBTQ Propaganda Everywhere https://cafe.nfshost.com/?p=10514

Dear Friends,

When I first arrived in Ontario I stopped in Kenora, a use to be lovely small city on Lake of the Woods about a half hour east of the Manitoba border. When I first entered this once lovely city one of the first visuals to assault me was a Black Lives Matter/sodomite pride/Marxist flag at the Kenora hospital, then one minute later I saw the same offensive flag at the provincial courthouse, then I saw a bunch of natives who were either intoxicated or on drugs zombied on the streets. Once I passed all that spectacle I made it to the LCBO to pick up a bottle of wine and got assaulted by another sodomite flag on the door of the LCBO (see above).

I want nothing to do with the anti-American boycott being promoted by Canada’s legacy media, so I actually looked for American wine as I wanted to support my neighbours to the south and to my disappointment there was none. If there was ever an argument for privatizing Ontario liquor stores this is it. You can buy South African wine, Chilean Wine, French wine, in Ontario liquor stores. You can buy Chinese everything in every Ontario store, even as China held two of Canadian citizens hostage, was implicated in deliberately allowing Covid 19 to spread from the Wuhan lab, is implicated in countless acts of espionage and economic warfare against Canadian interests, but private citizens cannot buy American wine. You are not allowed, so says the Ontario government.

Anyways, I settled on a light coconut rum/wine whose alcohol content is closer to a wine than a rum. Then when I got to the cashier I really got set off. The Ontario government cashier asked me as she rung up my bill, “Do you want to donate $5, $10 or $20 to Pride?” At the adjacent till I heard the cashier asking the same thing to her customer and that fellow agreed to part with $5 for the homosexual cause and gave a donation to a parade full of sexually confused individuals wearing dog collars and assless chaps.

Anyway, I asked my cashier in a loud voice, “are you asking me to give a donation to a homosexual parade?” She got the words “support for pride” out of her mouth, and then I went off on how the federal government takes $1.5 million of my tax dollars for homosexual pride, the province which is getting her to fund raise for the perverts, is also already expropriating $450,000 tax dollars for the parade and the City of Toronto is taking $350,000 from city taxpayers to support the parade. And furthermore I explained, I disagree with the homosexual lifestyle and it is a sin.

I kind of thought the lady was going to kick me out of the store, but she never did. She processed my purchase and said nothing more about homosexual pride. The folks in the line who heard me said nothing. I wished my teller a nice day and left. She said nothing more. Anyway, I wasn’t all that pleased with my first twenty minutes in Ontario’s westernmost city.

On to better news…..

I will be receiving the George Orwell Free Speech Award this week. It was started by the late Doug Christie, a lawyer who dedicated his life to defending free speech no matter how politically incorrect and at great personal cost to himself.

I will be receiving the award in TORONTO,  Thursday, June 26, 2025, 8:00 P.M. I think the people hosting the event have an admission fee of $10.

Street preaching and Freedom Rally, Square One Mississauga, Sunday June 29, 2025

My court case remains ongoing and I still need help for my October hearing and my trial in May 25-June 12, 2026.

https://www.lifefunder.com/whatcott

PRETRIAL MOTIONS – Crown expert and discreditable conduct motions …………………….. Oct 27-30, 2025

Jury trial: May 25-June 12, 2026

Oppose Bill C-2 — Criminalizing Some CashTransactions

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CALGARY, AB: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms has launched a petition calling upon the Prime Minister of Canada to strike the criminalization of cash payments of $10,000 or more from Bill C-2 and to introduce legislation protecting the right of Canadians to use cash of any amount for legal transactions.

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree introduced Bill C-2, or the Strong Borders Act, in the House of Commons on June 3, 2025. According to a Government of Canada statement, Bill C-2 will equip law enforcement with tools to secure borders and to combat crime, the drug trade, and money laundering.

Buried deep within the Bill, however, are provisions that would make it a criminal offence for businesses, professionals, and charities to accept cash payments of $10,000 or more in a single transaction or in a series of related transactions. Bill C-2 at page 59 

Justice Centre President John Carpay warns that the criminalization of cash transactions threatens the privacy, freedom of expression, and autonomy of all Canadians. When cash transactions are criminalized, governments, banks, and law enforcement can track and interfere with legitimate purchases and donations.

“We must not criminalize everyday Canadians for using physical currency. Once $10,000 is criminalized, it will be all too easy for future governments to lower the threshold to $5,000, then $1,000, and eventually nothing.”

Bill C-2 is just one point in a concerning anti-cash trend in Canada.

Quebec’s controversial Bill 54, passed into law in March 2024, allows police to assume that any person carrying $2,000 or more in cash is connected to criminal activity. Officers can seize the cash, and citizens must prove their innocence to get the cash back.

“Restricting the use of cash is a dangerous step towards tyranny,” continued Mr. Carpay. “Cash protects citizens from surveillance by government and banks, credit card companies, and other corporations. In a free society, violating the right of law-abiding citizens to use cash is not the answer to money laundering or the drug trade.” 

Signers of the petition call upon the Prime Minister of Canada to strike the criminalization of cash payments from Bill C-2.

Signers of the petition also call upon the Prime Minister of Canada to introduce legislation that protects Canadians’ right to use cash of any amount for legal transactions.

The petition is now live and open for signatures here.

Ancaster Parent Suspended from Hamilton School Council for Objecting to Cringing Land Acknowledgement

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Ancaster Parent Suspended from Hamilton School Council for Objecting to Cringing Land Acknowledgement

Legal warning sent to Ontario school board for suspending elected school council member

HAMILTON, ON: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announces that a legal warning letter has been sent to the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board after it suspended a parent from her role on the School Council for respectfully objecting to land acknowledgements.

Catherine Kronas, a concerned parent with a child enrolled at Ancaster High Secondary School, was re-elected to serve on School Council in October 2024.

During a Council meeting on April 9, 2025, Ms. Kronas asked that her respectful objection to land acknowledgements be noted in the minutes. No disruption occurred; her comments were limited to requesting that her dissenting viewpoint be recorded.

On May 22, 2025, however, the School Board informed Ms. Kronas that her involvement on the Council was being “paused” based on allegations that she had caused harm and had violated a Code of Conduct Policy. She has not been permitted to attend the next scheduled meeting.

Ms. Kronas was unsettled by the Board’s decision, saying, “I was taken aback by the Board’s decision to suspend me from the School Council after delivering a respectful objection, especially given assurances made at a previous council meeting and outlined in the Council bylaws that open dialogue and diverse perspectives are welcomed.”

“By barring me from the next meeting, the Council sends a troubling message to all parents: that even respectful disagreement may be met not with dialogue, but with disciplinary action. I am grateful to the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms for assisting me in this matter,” she remarked.

Constitutional lawyer Hatim Kheir said Ms. Kronas’ comments “were a reasonable and measured expression of a viewpoint held by many Canadians.”

“The Board’s decision to suspend her from the Council, which she has a right to sit on as an elected parent member, is an act of censorship that offends the right to freedom of expression,” he explained.

Mr. Kheir is calling for Ms. Kronas to be immediately reinstated to the Council and to be allowed to fulfill her elected role without further retaliation for expressing her views

Freedom Fighter Dave Lindsay to Speak in Victoria, July 2

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tentative presentation in Victoria by David Lindsay on the evening of July 2nd 2025

Dave has been one of the leaders of the Freedom Movement in Kelowna / the Okanagan,  for the last five years.  Not only is he an excellent speaker regarding personal Liberty,  he walks the walk.  He has payed – and continues – to pay the price for challenging the City of Kelowna on the Covid19 HOAX. 

Alexandr Solzenhytsen said     
              “for the Truth, it is not enough to just stand up.    For the Truth, you must go to gaol”
After the travesty of a show-trial charged with “assault”,  Dave is out of gaol now,  yet on absurdly-strict conditions.
So there is one big issue that he cannot talk about until his appeal is heard.And he won’t. But there’s lots he can say, and will

Tentatively, we will gather at Speakers’ Corner in Beacon Hill Park,    in the afternoon + evening of July 2nd Wednesday for which   we don’t need no stinkin’ PERMIT.   
Dave proved that much ! in Kelowna. The moment when he persisted going ahead with the first big protest after the City of Kelowna outlawed it,  saying protesters could not do so … was when we won the contest with the enemies of Free Speech.   The RCMP were there ….  ready to take him away.   But they wound up directing traffic!!!

Of course,  this Event in Beacon Hill Park will be free.  If you want to pony-up a bit of  CASH  to help him with his appeal, that will be most appreciated.Aa bit of comic relief, being : I met David Lindsay in the DeTax thing… which was learning the hard lessons about the income tax racket.


For the 25 years I’ve known him, the man has been adamantly AGAINST  political parties.  Yet if it suits you, dear taxserf,   you can contribute to my little provincial political party, and I will then give it to him.  I shall issue a receipt for the contribution… which is good for a bit of relief from provincial income tax !

If you have a suggestion for a better location for the Event … ideally, free … please let me know
Dave will be speaking in Nanaimo, the next day … July 3rd.  

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Party of Citizens Who Have Decided To Think for Ourselves & Be Our Own Politicians

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Hear Paul Fromm With Christian Klein on Tragedies of German History: The Planned Genocide of the German People

Paul Fromm is president of the Canadian Association for Free Expression, Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform and Canadian First Immigration Reform Committee and former International Council Member of The Council of Conservative Citizens. Since the 1960’s, Paul has been on the cutting edge of the fight against global White genocide.

Christian Klein is 92 years old and was 12 years old at the end of World War II. He lived through the war and survived the horrors of postwar Allied occupation. Now, Mr. Klein, as our super-honored-special guest, kick-starts our series on German History. A talented musician, he heads the Committee of German Expellees.

Bill C-2. Mark Carney Will Impose the Surveillance State

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Bill C-2. Mark Carney Will Impose the Surveillance State The Evolution of Canada’s Wire Tapping: Bill C-2 – the Surveillance State Sheldon Yakiwchuk Jun 5  


READ IN APP   Remember when the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) secretly tracked 33 million Canadians’ cellphone data during COVID? That’s not conspiracy…it’s fact, confirmed in a 2023 investigation by the Privacy Commissioner. They tracked your location. Your movement. Your behaviour. Despite claiming not to have done this exact thing… Welp…things are really heating up fast now. You should check out Bill C-2, that passed first reading, yesterday…where the Carney Liberals are preparing to track every Canadian using any communication device capable of sending or receiving data. Not just during an Emergency…whenever they feel like they can get a judge to approve. That’s not just your phone it includes: Your smart TV; Your router; Your car; Your watch; Your fridge, stove, washer and dryer; Your security systems; Bluetooth headsets and speakers… If it talks through what they deem as telecommunications, they’ll make it talk to them. They couldn’t possibly listen to all of this though, you say? Remember the Rush on Government funded AI? What do you think that’s all about? Solving Climate change or world hunger? Nope! With the use of AI, every single word, phrase, photo, and symbol you share can and will be analyzed. Free AI is already trained to: Flag “key phrases” like anti-government sentiments or vaccine hesitancy Scan images and videos to identify locations, people, logos, and even screen content Interpret emoji-coded messages — like during COVID, when people used 🥕 (“carrot”) instead of saying “jab” If you think you’re being clever, subtle, or sneaky, think again. The machines don’t sleep, they don’t miss innuendo, and they don’t forget. And then there’s the Liberal Doctrine of – Shoot First, Ask Questions Never… This is the same government that: Froze Canadians’ bank accounts under the Emergencies Act Had people de-banked without notice, trial, or cause Was ruled unjustified by courts but the damage was already done Now they want real-time access to your private spaces, and automated tools to flag your speech before a judge or officer ever gets involved. This isn’t “security.” This is authoritarianism wrapped in tech-speak. And they’re Not Stopping Criminals… They could’ve used this tech to: Stop auto theft plaguing cities like Toronto, Brampton, Mississauga or Vaughn:

Track wildfire arsonists in Alberta, where the majority of Forest Fires are caused:

Locate church burners, home invaders, or violent offenders:

They didn’t. Because the goal – given their Bail not Jail Legislation – isn’t public safety; it’s public control. You, the tax-paying citizen, are the enemy. Not the arsonist. Not the thief. Not the repeat offender. It’s your voice they fear. Not their crime stats. Want to see how this would become even more terrifying? Pair this surveillance with the Online Harms Act (Bill C-63), and what do you get? You can be tracked, flagged, and investigated for what you say online, even before you commit any crime; Your words can be taken out of context; You can be de-platformed, imprisoned, sued, or financially destroyed; You might never even know who your accuser is or what exactly you said that triggered it. In the world they’re building, AI won’t need evidence, it will just need a pattern. And you won’t be able to defend yourself when: Your post was just a joke Your emoji was a reference Your conversation was private Because if this passes, nothing is private. They Created the Crisis at the border and now they’re weaponizing the cure. This government manufactures chaos just to offer control as the solution. They provoked protests, then punished them.
They ignored crime, but surveilled law-abiding Canadians.
They preach safety, but deploy tools of fear and suppression. They will not use these tools to protect you.
They will only use them to monitor, punish, and neutralize you. This Is It, Canada. This Is the Line. AI is already analyzing your speech and online activities; Every device would be a listening post; Even emojis can be used to incriminate you; And all of it would be legal! We’re not slow crawling into Orwell’s 1984, we’re thrusting headlong into it.

The Most Censorious City in Canada

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We have a winner! 🏆 It’s time to name (and shame) Canada’s most censorious bylaw
We are so excited to finally announce the “winners” of the first-ever Municipal Muzzle Award, going out to those municipalities with the most egregious speech-restricting bylaws.
Coming in first, we have Calgary, Alberta for its so-called “Safe and Inclusive Access Bylaw,” which bans protests on specified topics (like gender, race, religion, etc.) within 100 metres of libraries and recreation centers. This unconstitutional law bans speech based on content and ended up opening the floodgates to similar “bubble zone” laws across the country.
Our runners-up are Caledon, Ontario, for prohibiting speaking “disrespectfully” of politicians at council meetings, and the town of South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, which bans picketing or protest activities in public spaces unless explicitly authorized by the town.
Read our free, comprehensive digital report, in which our legal team investigated the cities and towns across Canada slowly chipping away at your right to free speech.
We want to thank our Freedom Update subscribers for helping us choose the title of this award, and all of you who submitted your municipality’s speech-stifling bylaws. Your participation makes a difference! Bad bylaws don’t have to be forever, and by speaking up we can all make our country a little freer, one municipality at a time.  

A Tribute to Jocelyne Catherine Demers (November 30, 1935 – March 16, 2025) 

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A Tribute to Jocelyne Catherine Demers (November 30, 1935 – March 16, 2025) 

https://www.bitchute.com/video/CcHTOIxLRvU42

The Toronto free speech movement has lost one of its most dedicated and active members, Jocelyne Demers. She died in Toronto, March 18, after a short illness. Born in Montreal, she earned a Baccalaureat Classique from the University of Montreal. She studied for her Master degree in Sociology from 1959 to 1961, From 1961 to 1973, she worked as a reporter for La Presse and in her work met many of the leading Quebec politicians of her times. While still a lover of the classics and traditional Quebec, she became something of a leftist in her La Presse days. Still a yearning for freedom burned in her. In 1975, she moved to Ottawa and was employed by the federal Department of the Environment. In 1977, she moved to Toronto and worked as a translator for various insurance companies.

In Toronto, she was first attracted to the Libertarian Party. Through it, she met a friend who was active in Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform. She became a regular at the monthly meetings of the Alternative Forum. During the Zundel trial, she did outstanding work using her research skill and prodigious knowledge to help the Zundel team. She prized a handwritten note of gratitude from the German publisher and censorship victim. She became a regular helper at the monthly mailings of this newsletter and could always be relied on to attend a demonstration. Indeed, already ill, she came out on a rainy December day for a free speech protest last year outside the offices of the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal in Toronto.