Soldiers of expression: Hate speech, censorship & ethics
What are reasonable limits on freedom of expression? Western Standard contributor Jesse Kline explores the breadth and depth of our freedom to speak our mind, and publish our opinions.
Overheard on the Shotgun Blog
New International Trade Crossing: Bridge Math
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Albertans don?t want to pay for new Detroit-Windsor bridge
When Prime Minister Stephen Harper balked over the summer at an International Monetary Fund (IMF) invitation to participate in a $430-billion rescue package for Europe, many taxpayers cheered. They could be forgiven for thinking the PM had at last kicked...
News
Soldiers of expression: Hate speech, censorship & ethics
What are reasonable limits on freedom of expression? Western Standard contributor Jesse Kline explores the breadth and depth of our freedom to speak our mind, and publish our opinions.
Calgary firm seizes golden opportunity in Colombia
With gold reaching new highs, resource investors are looking to the resource-rich and under-explored country of Colombia. But is the political risk too high?
Opinion
Britain's 'Libertarian' Coaliton
The UK's shotgun-wedding coalition government has combined the civil libertarian instincts of the Liberal Democrats with the economic liberalism of the Conservatives to create a libertarian synergy not seen since the 1916-1922 coalition government of Lloyd George.
Book Review: The Canadian Century
The Canadian Century, by Brian Lee Crowley, Jason Clemens and Niels Veldhuis, is an unusually sobering look at political realities in North America, suggests J.J. McCullough. It may prove, he claims, enormously prescient.
Departments
Obama's reform: Systemic danger once again
Obama is rushing to blame a mythical "free-wheeling" market for the economic crisis. But the truth is that the blame rests with the state, and with government intervention into the economy.
The HRC on Trial, Part 2
The Human Rights Commissions have a laudable past, but are a danger in the present. Ori Rubin takes a good long look at how the original purposes of the HRC have become perverted, and why freedom of speech and expression is in danger of being quashed. (This is part two of a three-part special series)
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Drug abuse is bad, but prohibition is worse
Robert Sharpe with Common Sense for Drug Policy calls mandatory minimum prison sentences a "proven failure."