News Round-Up
28 April 2025
by Toby Young
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One of the last Covid thugs of the democratic world – Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party – are in deep, deep do-do, says James Allan. After two by-election losses, polls put the party in fourth place.
Alas, once again a government has introduced a law to curb free speech and outlaw 'hate'. But if speech is so unpopular that some deem it hateful, that speech is the speech most worth protecting, says Lawrence Krauss.
Justin Trudeau to Humza Yousaf: "You think you can position yourself as the West’s most authoritarian 'liberal' political leader? Hold my Molson."
If you thought assisted suicide would guarantee a quick, painless death, data from Oregon will make you think again, says Nick Rendell. One person took almost six days to die.
Amidst some stiff competition, perhaps the most ill-conceived piece of anti-free speech legislation currently being pushed through in the Western world is Canada’s appalling Online Harms Act, says Steven Tucker.
Since the 1980s, modern states have become increasingly squeamish about infringing the 'human rights' of violent criminals, even at the expense of their own populations. Why is that, asks Dr David McGrogan.
Journalists against free speech? "Excessive free speech" threatens democracy, according to the public affairs columnist at Canada's top newspaper, the Globe and Mail. Rigid regulation of speech is what's required.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's new Online Harms Act will allow judges to give life sentences to those who commit speech crimes on social media, as critics slam it as "Orwellian" and an "overreach".
A leading member of a Canadian centre-Left party supporting Justin Trudeau’s minority Government has tabled a bill seeking to jail people who speak out in favour of fossil fuels.
The Canadian Government used faked intelligence (aka disinformation) to frame the Freedom Convoy anti-vaccine-mandate protesters as violent extremists and justify invoking the Emergencies Act, an investigation has found.
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