Tag Archives: censorship

Defending God at the Library

by | July 21, 2016

Ok, I know I should be taking this all serious, but gods getting censored at the local library tickles my irony bone. (Get your mind out of the gutter) An Ontario woman whose community newsletter was banned from her local library has won the right to distribute it on the institution’s pamphlet stands, after a… Read more »

#harperman

by | August 30, 2015

It’s almost the end of the “lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer,” but the 2015 Canadian election pollsters are just gearing up to predict how Canadians will vote on October 19, 2015. For many of us, it’s too much and too early with no relief in sight. However, the video “Harperman, a Protest Song” and… Read more »

Outrage rage down under

by | December 6, 2014

Too funny. But do video games cause cancer… Australian gamers, furious about the decision by two large retailers to ban a popular violent video game, have started a petition to ban the Bible. or just neckbeards?

Parents Call Cops on Kid for Distributing Banned Book

by | April 28, 2014

It’s a travesty that the Meridian district school board in Idaho banned Sherman Alexie’s award winning book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, because the book includes “reference to masturbation, contains profanity and has been viewed by many as anti-Christian” according to the Idaho Statesman paper. Thank goodness Brady Kissel, a Mountain View High School student, protested the… Read more »

There is No Shame in Discussing Religion Publicly

by | January 30, 2014

Religion or lack thereof, is a personal matter. At least that was the sentiment many of my fellow Canadians expressed in the comments section of a recent CBC article about a billboard company’s refusal to display CFI’s rather tame message about being good without God. One Christian commenter, who accepts his son’s atheism stated that:… Read more »

Jesus and Mo Wednesday

by | January 29, 2014

black This will be obscure to you if you don’t know the backstory. Last night, Channel 4 News did a piece on the Maajid Nawaz/J&M controversy. They showed the comic, but censored Mo – thus playing to the worst stereotype of Muslims as violent fanatics, pushing liberal Muslims “further into a ditch” (Nawaz), betraying the… Read more »