~ Canadian Lawyer & Commentator Iain Benson

~ DAVID WARREN— Kafka’s Canada: “At the moment, a number of “interesting” cases are coming before Canada’s inaptly-named “human rights commissions.” I have mentioned in this space before the case being brought against Maclean’s magazine, for publishing an excerpt from a book by Mark Steyn, by the Canadian Islamic Congress” …. (dw)

~ AGE TO COME Blogger– “The Canadian Thought Police” …. (theagetocome)

~ REVISIT— Muslim attack on Maclean’s, The London Free Press, By Rory Leishman …. (roryleishman.blog)

~ PAUL TUNS: “The goal of the HRC offensive by the exquisitely offended is to impose a single vanilla official worldview on Canada” …. (soberingthoughts)

~ DAILY BAYONET: “The Osgoode Hall bloggers at Law is Cool have metaphorically thrown Daniel Simard under the bus” …. (dailybayonet.blog)

~ CANADIAN Catholic magazine faces legal attack for criticizing homosexuals; Censure vs. censorship …. (Various)

~ SHAIDLE: Publish stuff we don’t like, and we’ll kill you; If you aren’t part of the solution, you’re probably a lawyer. VOL 151: Human Rights, The Prophet Cartoons and the Case of Ezra Levant [**Content advisory: some of the language and contents in this article may be offensive to certain readers**]…. (fivefeetoffury)

~ COOLLAWIS: “More Trolling”? …. (lawiscool.com)

~ AND THE AWARD GOES TO… Jihad Watch Award winners 2007! …. (jihadwatch)

~ THAT NICE picture of Mark Steyn we used here comes via this website, all rights reserved, type thing …. (FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog)

“During the years when my colleagues and I
were labouring to create (human rights) commissions,
we never imagined that they might ultimately be used
against freedom of speech.”

~ Alan Borovoy, general counsel
for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, 2007

The Ezra

~ EZRA LEVANT: Inside Syed Soharwardy’s mosque (comments galore @ LGF, here’s the complaint); and Credit where credit’s due …. (ezralevant)

~ THAT “THUG” FROM LETHBRIDGE? “Ding, Ding, Ding…in this corner.” She’s (in)famous for this shameful blot on Canadian & Christian religious freedom, and freedom of speech …. (socon.ca)

~ DHIMMI-WATCH: “My freedom to publish a cartoon that some radical Muslim imam doesn’t like, well that’s the free West for ya.” …. (jihadwatch.org)

~ NEIL FLAGG— Free speech chill in Canada: Steyn, Levant fight government-sponsored tribunals. Via …. (dawneden, flaggman)

~ DEBORAH GYAPONG: We need more people to challenge error says Benson; Ezra Levant’s closing statements; Ezra Levant’s stirring defence of freedom …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ SOCON.CA— Ezra The Braveheart vs. The Alberta Star Chamber; Pay Attentionention; The Kangaroos Judging Us …. (socon.ca)

~ THE ANCHORESS: Ezra Levant fighting the good fight …. (theanchoressonline)

~ KRAALSPACE: Ezra Levant and the Torturer’s Horse …. (kraalspace.blog)

~ P2BC BLOG— I’ve rarely been more proud of a man than I am of Ezra Levant today; Stephen Taylor: “The world needs more Ezra Levants” …. (p2bc, ST)

~ SOLOMONIA— Canada enforces Sharia law.. through their “Human Rights Commission.” …. (solomonia.com)

~ KATE @ SDA: “You know Syed Soharwardy, the guy behind the HRC complaint against Ezra Levant? “Well, in the case of Soharwardy, it appears that he himself is the subject of a human rights complaint — for discrimination against women. There’s a shocker. It was filed with the Edmonton and Ottawa offices of the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Some women in his mosque allege that…” …. (smalldeadanimals)

~ INSIGHT CATHOLIC— Free speech and the Internet. Should the United Nations Control the Internet? …. (insidecatholic.com)

~ PAJAMAS MEDIA— The Mohammed Cartoons on Trial: Now in Belarus …. (pajamasmedia.com)