Cancel Culture
A few weeks after the adoption of a new policy on academic freedom, the controversial professor at Laval University Patrick Provost received a fourth suspension.
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Mr. Provost will be suspended again without pay for a week, from June 24 to July 3, 2023. This time, he is accused of having participated during a period of suspension in two television interviews in an « alternative media », which contravenes the provisions of the collective agreement, can we read in a letter sent by Laval University, including The newspaper obtained a copy.
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Read MoreThe social media platform Facebook has blacklisted two True North reports on a drag queen story time in Winnipeg and a Nova Scotia program that hands out fake breasts and prosthetic penises to youth as “adult content” that violates the company’s policies.
A notification by the platform claimed that the stories in question were not eligible for advertising because they did not comply with Facebook’s “Adult Content policy.”
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Read MoreMultiple media reports say corporate executives — including at Starbucks — are reducing their chatter and advocacy on “green and social initiatives” amid the Target and Bud Light stock-market disasters.
On June 13, NBC News reported that gay and transgender employees at Starbucks protested when the company executives told the outlets to reduce the in-store displays for transgenderism and gay status:
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Read MoreCountry music titan Garth Brooks responded to the backlash from fans after he called them “assholes” for disliking his decision to serve Bud Light in his Nashville bar, with a call for people to come to his bar with a spirit of “tolerance” and an open mind.
As Breitbart News reported, Garth Brooks sparked backlash among fans when he said that his Nashville bar, Friends in Low Places, would be serving Bud Light, a beer that has since seen a sharp decline in sales after it partnered with transgender TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney.
“Yes, we’re going to serve every brand of beer. We just are. It’s not our decision to make,” he reportedly said during a Q&A session for Billboard’s Country Live in Conversation.
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Read MoreA New Jersey federal jury awarded a white Starbucks manager $25 million after finding the coffee giant fired her because of her race.
Starbucks terminated Shannon Phillips in 2018 after two black men were arrested at a Rittenhouse square, Philadelphia, store, the Daily Mail reported. Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson were waiting for a third person to arrive for a business meeting. The men were refused access to the bathroom since they did not purchase anything. An employee called 911 on the men, and they were detained by police, the Law.com reported.
The arrests caused widespread protests, and Starbucks temporarily closed 8,000 stores so employees could participate in racial-bias education training.
Phillips argued that Starbucks only punished white employees over the incident as a way to repair their public image. The black supervisor of the Starbucks, Paul Skyes, reportedly did not receive any disciplinary action from the company. As a regional manager, Phillips oversaw over 100 stores across Philadelphia, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland and had been with company for 13 years.
She was reportedly instructed to place a white manager of 15 years from another store on administrative leave due to allegations of racial discrimination.
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Read MoreThe College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) has permanently suspended the medical licence of Dr. Patrick Brian Phillips after its discipline tribunal found that he was “incompetent” and undermined Canada’s public health response to COVID-19.
“We are dismayed by the deliberate steps you took to undermine the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic,” the tribunal said in its decision dated June 6.
“As a physician, the information you communicate is trusted by many. Your communications to colleagues, patients, and your thousands of followers on social media regarding COVID-19 and public health response measures, were careless, often offensive and at times, possibly harmful.”
Phillips, who practised medicine in Englehart, was first barred from issuing exemptions for COVID-19 vaccines, masking requirements, and testing—as well as prescribing the antiparasitic medication ivermectin—in September 2021. The CPSO then temporarily suspended Phillips’s medical licence on May 3, 2022, for “holding a medical opinion that is contrary to the public health directives.”
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Read MoreA free speech event was cancelled last month by the London Public Library, despite its stated commitment to “intellectual freedom.”
Chiang Mai University visiting professor and C2C Journal contributor Patrick Keeney joined The Andrew Lawton Show to discuss the erosion of academic freedom in Canada, and the potential long-term consequences for academia and society as a whole.
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Read MoreAlberta Premier Danielle Smith announced that she has been temporarily banned from using Facebook.
“Big tech and government censorship is becoming a danger to free speech around the world,” she tweeted.
“My Facebook account has been banned from posting content for a ‘few days’. As the Premier of a province of 4.6 million Albertans- if they can prevent me from communicating with you, imagine what they can do to any one of us,” Smith said.
“Regardless of our political leanings, we must all stand against censorship.”
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