Human rights and Canada: view from Washington

Canada continues to get an implicit 'pass' on its restrictions on freedom of speech. The wide-ranging latitude of provincial human rights commissions to charge individuals and publications with 'hate speech' and force defendants into expensive legal defe

WASHINGTON, D.C.—For 34 years the release of the annual U.S. Department of State human rights report has been a harbinger of spring competing with blooming crocus, returning robins, and the office lottery pools associated with "March madness" basketball. As a bureaucratic legacy of the Car...

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