“Criminalizing Dissent”

Britain’s two-tier burqa ban

True to their word, Hampshire Police have wasted no time in cracking down on ‘masked’ protesters. In Portsmouth last weekend, a self-proclaimed ‘gender-fluid Muslim convert’ wearing a burqa was detained, arrested and charged for allegedly refusing to reveal his (or her, or their) identity at an anti-immigration rally. The individual is due to appear at the Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court today.

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Two Tiered Justice", "Two Tiered Policing"

MORGAN: The knock on the door — is Canada becoming the UK?

MORGAN: The knock on the door — is Canada becoming the UK?

In the late 1980s, I had the opportunity as a young man to tour Guatemala, which was in the midst of a prolonged and terrible civil war. I had the good fortune in my youth to have been fairly well travelled, and trips to Mexico had shown me how well I had it as a kid growing up in Canada. In Guatemala, though, I got to see a different level of poverty and suffering in a nation where the government was the prime cause of it.

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You remember him …

You remember him …

h/t Mauser

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Silencing Detective Grus is coming to MAJOR ALBERTA THEATRES

Silencing Detective Grus is coming to MAJOR ALBERTA THEATRES

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More than 60,000 arrested in ‘chilling curb of free speech’ as damning report exposes zealous policing of social media as ‘Orwellian mess’

More than 60,000 arrested in ‘chilling curb of free speech’ as damning report exposes zealous policing of social media as ‘Orwellian mess’

A major free speech row erupted last night after it was revealed that more than 60,000 people have been arrested over the past five years for ‘communications offences’ – some as trivial as viewing disparaging TikTok videos.

The astonishing figure has been described as ‘Orwellian’, and having a ‘chilling effect’ in stifling opinions online.

The statistics – to be published in a hard-hitting report this week – also highlight the chaotic implementation of rules on ‘malicious’ messaging, with some police forces making 14 times more arrests under the powers than others.

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John Carpay: Hamilton mayor, police violate Charter in crusade against anti-immigration group

John Carpay: Hamilton mayor, police violate Charter in crusade against anti-immigration group

The mayor and police in Hamilton, Ont., have decided that some Canadians have the wrong kind of opinions and should not be allowed to rent public facilities.

Last week, Hamilton Mayor Andrea Horwath declared that the Dominion Society is not entitled to rent city-owned property to hold a conference. The predictable result was to force the group to seek a private venue in which to hold its meeting.

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COOPER: The Freedom Convoy exposed Ottawa’s dangerous war on dissent

COOPER: The Freedom Convoy exposed Ottawa’s dangerous war on dissent

In early April 2026, Tamara Lich, who helped organize the 2022 truckers’ Freedom Convoy to Ottawa, gave a talk at the University of Calgary. One of the largest lecture theatres, holding over 400 people, was nearly filled. She spoke for an hour and a half without notes and then took another half hour of questions. In return for some minimal assistance in booking the room, I was rewarded with a collection of chocolates (since consumed) and a copy of her book, Hold the Line: My Story from the Heart of the Freedom Convoy. Her talk and her book embodied in my mind the last gasp of Canadian self-respect and pride. More surprisingly, it also expressed the much rarer view that the struggle against bureaucratic tyranny directed by the Government of Canada was more spiritual than political.

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Criminalizing Dissent

Criminalizing Dissent

h/t Mauser

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Hamilton police accused of political interference over Dominion Society conference

Hamilton police accused of political interference over Dominion Society conference

CALGARY — On the eve of the Dominion Society of Canada’s nationalist conference in Hamilton, Ontario, local police are facing accusations of political interference after releasing an announcement asking venues in the city to report any new bookings for the convention after its original venue backed out.

They’ve disallowed comments for some reason.

WTF?

(more…)

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Ottawa police detective who accessed files on infant deaths handed 2-year demotion

Ottawa police detective who accessed files on infant deaths handed 2-year demotion

A veteran detective with the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) is being demoted for two years for discreditable conduct after a disciplinary tribunal found her guilty of invading the privacy of families by inappropriately accessing the files of dead children and asking one parent about a mother’s vaccination status.

Const. Helen Grus was suspended in 2022 over allegations that she had engaged in “an unauthorized project” by accessing case files to which she wasn’t assigned.

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Canada’s former Minister of Public Safety is on camera calling the COVID agenda “a cover-up of mammoth proportions.”

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UK police unit refers more than 100 social media posts to local forces

UK police unit refers more than 100 social media posts to local forces

An elite police squad which was set up to monitor social media in the wake of the Southport riots has flagged more than 100 posts to local forces.

The National Internet Intelligence Investigations team was created earlier this year to surveil online platforms for signs of “protest-related activity”.

It was founded by ministers in response to the national unrest following the 2024 Southport murders, which prompted a series of anti-immigrant riots.

Big Brother is a Muslim.

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Edmonton Police Service facing backlash over post calling for individuals to report online ‘hate’

Edmonton Police Service facing backlash over post calling for individuals to report online ‘hate’

EDMONTON — Individuals are criticizing the Edmonton Police Service after the agency made a social media post encouraging individuals to report online “hate” comments and used anti-immigration comments as examples.

“You typed it. Someone lived it,” reads the caption of an EPS post made on Friday. “Online hate isn’t ‘just a comment.’ It hurts real people and harms real communities. Hate has no home here…”

The goal always is to criminalize dissent.

(Incognito)

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CROSSON: Making residential school ‘denialism’ a crime would criminalize historical debate

CROSSON: Making residential school ‘denialism’ a crime would criminalize historical debate

Survivor accounts of residential schools vary — sometimes from the very same person. Nunavut Senator Nancy Karetak-Lindell told Nunatsiaq News in 2001 that her time at Akaitcho Hall was “a home-away-from-home” and that “it’s not like what you’re hearing about all the residential school issues today.” In the same piece, she said, “At Akaitcho, we were in a structured environment compared to where we came from. That taught us perseverance and how to discipline ourselves.” “It taught us a lot about doing things in life that we didn’t always want to do, but those things had to be done … We had to learn how to live with people from different cultures who spoke different languages and came from different parts of the NWT,” she continued, adding that those friendships helped her political career.

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