Persecution
ASTONISHINGLY, it is almost ten years since I first wrote my first blog for TCW. By that time, I had been friends with and worked with Kathy Gyngell for almost 30 years, 14 of them in trying to hold the BBC in check over its outrageously pro-EU coverage, through News-watch, an organisation we set up jointly in 1999.
The springboard to that blog a decade ago? The BBC’s incestuous, self-serving infatuation with Glastonbury. I noted that the Corporation was sending its usual hundreds-strong army to mount disproportionately lavish coverage of the event.
And why? I argued that in the BBC’s warped events diary, this was a ‘woke’ happening par excellence – because at its heart was support for a galaxy of right-on causes such as climate alarmism, led that year by Greenpeace.
My observations about the BBC – underpinned by News-watch research – soon became a feature of TCW’s regular Beebwatch column, and subjects in the first couple of years included the Corporation’s spiteful participation in the baseless claims against Cliff Richard, the build-up to the Brexit referendum, and then in its aftermath, persecution and denigration of Nigel Farage, and the concerted effort to undermine and reverse the ‘yes’ vote.
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Read Moreate lawmakers in India are seeking to curtail evangelism with a ban on “magical healing” that could penalize Christians who offer prayer or any “non-scientific” practices to comfort people who are sick.
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Last month, the northeastern state of Assam introduced the bill, which Christian leaders say unfairly targets their community’s custom of praying for the sick. Though church healing meetings in India have drawn people to Christ,
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Read MoreLeonid Volkov, who worked with Navalny as a top adviser, was injured outside his home in Lithuania.
A longtime aide to the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was attacked with a hammer outside his home in Lithuania on Tuesday, less than a month after the fierce critic of Vladimir Putin died in prison.
Leonid Volkov, who worked with Navalny as a top adviser and helped run his campaigns, was left bloodied after the attack, a spokesperson who worked for the opposition leader wrote on X. Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation posted brutal photos on the social media site, which show Volkov with a bloody leg and face injuries.
Volkov has lived in Lithuania in self-imposed exile for at least four years. A court in Moscow had ordered his arrest in 2021 on charges officials condemned as “politically motivated prosecution.”
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Read MoreIsraeli teacher Meir Baruchin charged with treason after sharing stories of Palestinians on internet
❝I want to humanize them in my Facebook page. The municipality didn’t like it… Next day I was fired❞
🎙️ Israeli teacher Meir Baruchin, charged with treason after sharing stories of Palestinians on internet, speaks to Anadolu
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Read MoreThe newly introduced Bill C-63, also known as the Online Harms Act, will reintroduce section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. A law that was badly abused to censor unpopular opinion with the threat of financial penalties.
In this video, Christine does a deep dive into the problems with this aspect of C-63.
If you’re concerned about this law please write to your MP. We’ve created an easy online tool to contact your MP with your concerns, the tool is available here: https://theccf.ca/Fix-C-63/
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Read MoreCanada’s proposed bill, C-63, lays out liberty-crushing, due process annihilating terms for ill-defined thought crimes such as ‘fear of hate propaganda.’ Meanwhile, Ireland has a similar bill as the public is seeing a hidden hand crafting legislation aimed to disrupt society.
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Read MoreProceedings at the Canadian Parliament are beginning to feel like a zombie film: a monster was killed, it came back, was killed again and yet returns a third time. But this isn’t your typical horror flick. This one involves a group of government bureaucrats investigating complaints about your speech, prosecuting you at their own tribunal and ordering you to pay tens of thousands of dollars to people who don’t like what you say or write. The undead antagonist at the centre of it all is the civil penalty for hate speech, proposed last week in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s newly tabled Bill C-63.
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Read MoreThe appeal of a Windsor police officer disciplined for donating $50 to the Freedom Convoy in 2022 has been dismissed by the Ontario Civilian Police Commission.
Constable Michael Brisco, who had no prior disciplinary record, was found guilty of discreditable conduct and ordered to forfeit 80 hours in pay following a four-day hearing in March 2023. He filed a Notice of Appeal with the Ontario Civilian Police Commission (OCPC) last June seeking to challenge the conviction and penalty.
Const. Brisco said there was no “clear and compelling evidence” of discreditable conduct, that the investigation of the donation was an abuse of process, and that the penalty was “unreasonable and unduly harsh,” during the Nov. 21, 2023, appeal hearing. While the Ontario Civilian Police Commission agreed the penalty was “significant,” it determined the discipline was not unreasonable.
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Read MoreIt’s been two years since Canada’s Freedom Convoy protests. I have spent them in a Canadian jail. My name is Tony Olienick and I am a political prisoner.
I’m from a small town in southern Alberta called Claresholm. I’m the only son to my late father George and my mom Tessie, who is approaching her 81st birthday. Before I participated in the Freedom Convoy and was arrested, I helped my mom at our small hobby farm, among other things. After high school I became a journeyman plumber and gas fitter, but I eventually pursued what every little boy loves the most—playing with Tonka Toys in the sandbox. Starting with one backhoe, I grew a gravel quarrying and trucking business into an operation that employed two dozen people at times. I had multiple pieces of heavy equipment, trucks, and trailers.
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