{"id":11370,"date":"2026-08-29T01:50:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=11370"},"modified":"2026-08-29T01:51:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:51:22","slug":"justice-centre-sends-legal-warning-to-hamilton-mayor-police-for-pressuring-venues-not-to-rent-to-the-dominion-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=11370","title":{"rendered":"Justice Centre Sends Legal Warning to Hamilton Mayor &#038; Police for Pressuring Venues Not to Rent to the Dominion Society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lawyers funded by the Justice Centre have sent a warning letter to Hamilton Mayor Andrea Horwath and Hamilton Police after they attempted to prevent a political conference organized by the Dominion Society of Canada from taking place in Hamilton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor Horwath urged local businesses not to host the conference. Hamilton Police then asked the public to report possible venues to police, despite identifying no crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Constitutional lawyer Hatim Kheir said, \u201cThe City of Hamilton and Hamilton Police are using both direct action and their influence to exclude a viewpoint they disagree with from the entire city. This is unconstitutional and fundamentally at odds with the way a free and democratic society operates.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The legal warning letter calls on Hamilton officials to cease and retract their actions and respect Charter freedoms of expression and peaceful assembly. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"&#x1f1e8;&#x1f1e6;\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/taa\/1\/16\/1f1e8_1f1e6.png\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers funded by the Justice Centre have sent a warning letter to Hamilton Mayor Andrea Horwath and Hamilton Police after they attempted to prevent a political conference organized by the Dominion Society of Canada from taking place in Hamilton. Mayor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=11370\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6379,3006,4289,6380],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11371,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11370\/revisions\/11371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}