Fake News, Donald Trump and the Globe and Mail

      Is it any wonder that consumers of news no longer trust main stream media outlets? Take a look at this click bait from the venerable Globe and Mail, 175 years old. In an editorial, June 3, the author, unknown; I presume someone at the paper as it...

Stifling free speech undermines democracy

    Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer announced Saturday, June 2, 2019 that Conservative MP Michael Cooper would no longer serve on the justice committee after he had lashed out at a Muslim witness earlier in the week during a hearing on online hate....

What happens when governments and police fear Islam?

  I can tell you what happens when governments and police have an irrational fear of Islam, or Islamophobia. They permit hateful parades targeting the Toronto “Zionist community” and calling for the destruction of the Jewish state, the one and only homeland of...

Publishers must not bow down to Islamophobia

  We are in terrible trouble when publishers kow-tow to those who want to prevent free speech under the rubric of not wanting to put out books that “cross the line into spreading harm.” The only books that seem to meet that criteria are books that put Islam...