5 Feet of Fury

Rob Breakenridge on the latest Muslim cartoon “outrage”

“Now that he’s going to be investigated by the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, what sort of a chill will that put on editorial cartoonists across this country? Or on the newspapers themselves?

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“The chief commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission has talked of the need for media to put content through a ‘human rights filter’. She may soon get her wish. The rest of us will be left wondering what happened to freedom of the press, and why we didn’t speak up sooner.”