Constable Clay Harnum, a Durham, Ontario, police officer, has been docked 60 hours of pay after pleading guilty to discreditable conduct on Oct. 5 at a police disciplinary hearing. One count of insubordination was withdrawn by the Crown. Harnum was charged in relation to an Instagram post on Jan. 6, which had a photo of his…
Durham Constable Docked 60 Hours Pay for Backing Wife’s Support of Freedom Convoy
Young Americans Voted to Ruin Their Lives
Commentary This week, The New York Times published a column by a left-wing academic (forgive the redundancy), John Della Volpe, director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics. In his first sentence, Mr. Della Volpe reveals his politics. He described young Americans as “stressed and sickened by thoughts of their rights and…
Criminal Charges Dropped Against Vancouver ‘Street Preacher’
November 16, 2022
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Criminal charges of mischief and creating a disturbance have been dropped against street preacher Steven Brown, who was arrested in the summer of 2021 while sharing his religious views on a Vancouver public sidewalk. His lawyer, Carol Crosson, says the charges never should have been laid. Brown now intends to pursue further legal action against…
New Revelations About America’s Speech Police Illustrate Challenges for Reformers of Deep State
Commentary One wonders how far a modern-day Church Committee could realistically hope to get in reining in a Deep State run as far amok as ours. For a sobering window into just how systemic and fundamental the rot within our national security and intelligence apparatus is, and therefore how arduous any such effort to reform…
William Brooks: Canadians are Defending Free Speech While It Still Exists
Commentary If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. — George Orwell For more than a century of socialist cultural advance, man’s capacity for independent thought and free expression has been in a state of precipitous decline. From state radio and TV stations…
Proposed UK Law to Restrict ‘Heckler’s Veto’ in University Debates
Following the treatment of female academics by transgender activists, an amendment to a new free speech bill will attempt to deal with those who try to silence speakers on campuses. Academics have forwarded an amendment to the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill to deal with the use of the “heckler’s veto” on campuses. The…
Job Ad With Real White Prison Officer and Black Inmate Banned for Depicting ‘Negative Racial Stereotype’
The UK’s advertising regulator has ruled that a Facebook ad for the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) was likely to cause serious offence by reinforcing negative stereotypes about black men. The ad for the MoJ’s Prison Jobs scheme, seen on June 25, featured an image of a white prison officer talking to a black inmate, with superimposed…
Silencing Medical Dissent: Doctors Oppose New Power for Regulators to Manage ‘Risks to Public Safety’
November 1, 2022
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Alternative union groups—formed in opposition to vaccine mandates—are resisting a new amendment that sharpens the powers of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law, which was used during the pandemic to penalise medical practitioners for opposing government-backed lockdowns or mandates. In a submission to the Queensland Parliament, the Australian Medical Professionals Society (AMPS) and the Nurses’ Professional Association of…
Journalism in Crisis: The War on Dissent
October 31, 2022
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This article is based on speech by Whitney Webb to the First Annual Children’s Health Defense Conference on October 2022. Introduction and Background For years, the censorship of factual information that is inconvenient to certain powerful actors, including the U.S. Federal Government and Big Pharma, has been steadily increasing as “information warfare” has become an…
Remember Those Who Cannot Speak
Commentary Being on the administrative/editorial side of Brownstone has been a serious education in information systems. I don’t mean on a technical level. I mean on a social level. I had no idea just how many people there are who simply are not in a position to speak their minds. It’s strange because the whole…
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