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A note to our readers Tuesday, 10 June 2008 Now that the first show trial is behind us, SteynOnline is going on hiatus for a while. I have to do some far-flung traveling in connection with a forthcoming project that would have been coming forth a whole lot sooner were it not for these thought-police investigations. Thanks to everyone who's swung by these parts to read a column, enter a competition, buy a book or drop a missive to Mark's Mailbox, and in so doing helped make this last year our most successful yet. I'm especially grateful to all those...

Note to American readers: Here's what Canadians have to put up with. Covet your freedom of speech - it's rare, even in the so-called 'free world'. That self-serving legal maladroit Richard Warman is making waves again with his so-called Maximum Disruption Campaign. The latest has the anti-rightwing, anti-conservative, anti-freedom of speech legal beagle launching an all-out attack against a number of conservative writers and internet forums.

OTTAWA, April 1, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Richard Warman, a homosexual activist who has worked with the homosexual activist group EGALE, has been caught having written a racist screed against one of his most prominent enemies - the Canadian Senator best known for fighting against homosexual 'marriage' - Anne Cools.  Of course Warman claims he was simply posing as a racist in writing his post in order to goad self proclaimed white supremacist Marc Lemire into incriminating himself. However, famed conservative columnist Mark Steyn points out in one of his latest writings on the debacle at the Canadian Human Rights...

Free Dominion is undergoing an upgrade which is taking far longer than anticipated. We hope to be back up by around midnight eastern time 29 Feb (today).

It looks like Free Dominion up in Canada has change their web address from www.freedominion.com to www.freedominion.com.pa Please update your bookmarks if you wish to find FD in the future.

Please use your networks to help Free Dominion need everyone to help us get the word out on their networks that the new url for Free Dominion is: http://www.freedominion.com.pa If you have email lists, facebook, or a blog, PLEASE get this information out to people so that they can find us.

The right to free expression of opinion and belief -- though constrained in its extremes during wartime -- is not something that can be negotiated in a free country. For it is the most fundamental right -- the queen bee in the hive, as it were. Every other freedom depends on this freedom. Take it away, and we no longer have a free country. A misunderstanding about this is at the root of much conflict between East and West. When cartoonists were invited by a Danish provincial newspaper to present their graphic notions of the Prophet Mohammad, there were riots...

A Statist View of Rights In the statist's world, your rights are whatever the state says they are.  You can really see this concept at work in this breathtakingly bad Canadian decision reported by Eugene Volokh: Richard Warman, a lawyer who worked as an investigatory for the Canadian Human Rights Commission, often filed complaints against "hate speech" sites — complaints that were generally upheld under Canadian speech restrictions. Fromm, a defender of various anti-Semites and Holocaust denials, has been publicly condemning Warman for, among other things, being "an enemy of free speech." Warman sued, claiming that these condemnations are defamatory....

<p>Oh, yeah, he wants $150,000 in damages, but he is willing to settle this for the bargain price of $10,900.</p> <p>And, to silence them.</p> <p>All under the aegis of "rights..."</p> <p>At least with a common street criminal, you know you are dealing with a crook- he is nothing more than a silk-shirted thief.</p>

Website administrators say Canadian Human Rights Commission and so-called 'hate-crime' laws are serious threat to free speech in Canada By John JalsevacOTTAWA, Ontario, August 3, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The human rights complaint that accused the Canadian conservative web forum Free Dominion of "hate speech" has been dropped, Free Dominion co-founder and administrator Connie Fournier told LifeSiteNews.com today. Fournier said that she and her husband, both of whom founded and run the website together, received a letter this afternoon, informing them that the complainant, Marie-Lines Gentes, requested the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) to drop the complaint. Interestingly enough, said Fournier,...

A website featuring comments by, for and about "principled conservatism" is being investigated by the Canadian government, and could be fined or ordered shut down for some postings about Islam and homosexuality. Connie Wilkins, who with Mark Fournier runs Canada's Free Dominion site and posts articles, comments and blogs on a wide range of issues, said she just was notified by the nation's Human Rights Commission about the investigation. The Human Rights Commission is appointed to investigate complaints that "hate speech" or other illegal activity has been detected, and issue rulings or recommendations to the national Human Rights Tribunal, which...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Ontario — Organizers of a conservative online forum in Canada say their free-speech rights are under attack after they received a letter saying a complaint has been filed with the Canadian Human Rights Commission. p The complaint, filed by a private citizen and accepted for further investigation by the commission, protested a critical posting on the forum's Web site regarding Islam and homosexuality. p The remarks were posted on FreeDominion.ca, a sister site to the conservative U.S. forum FreeRepublic, by FreeDominion member Bill Whatcott, a former homosexual prostitute turned outspoken Christian activist. “I can't figure out why...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Ontario — Organizers of a conservative online forum in Canada say their free-speech rights are under attack after they received a letter saying a complaint has been filed with the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Marie-Line Gentes was offended by comments posted at freedominion.ca, a canadian-conservative forum, and has filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission alleging "hate speech". Here is the offensive remarks: The remarks were posted on FreeDominion.ca, a sister site to the conservative U.S. forum FreeRepublic, by FreeDominion member Bill Whatcott, a former homosexual prostitute turned outspoken Christian activist. “I can't figure out...

It appears someone has launched a complaint against free dominion with the Canadian Human rights tribunal. http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=84457

Since President Bush has just delivered his State of the Union address, I thought it might be handy if somebody reviewed the state of the world. Now I know what you're thinking -- we've got the news media for that job, right? Seriously, I know you're not thinking that. But you have to laugh at the sheer pretence of our television networks, with their slogans. CBC -- "the news Canadians trust." Global's new catch-phrase, "News understood." Mm-hm, mm-hm. And as for CTV, is it "older than time itself?" -- I don't recall, oh yes it's something about Canada's home. So...

The Ceaucescu moment in Paul Martin's short, disgraceful career as prime minister, the instant it was clear the jig was well and truly up, occurred not this year but last; not during the long, slow humiliation of the present election campaign, but in his hour of maximum triumph, perhaps the finest achievement of his premiership: the luring of Belinda Stronach, by means of a Cabinet bauble or two, into the Liberal fold. You remember: the press conference, a nervous Ms. Stronach, a beaming prime minister. Someone asks about the political impact of her defection, just days before that crucial vote...

Watching political types learn to use the Web is a lot like sitting on the cottage porch in summer -- if you'll recall -- underneath the electric bug-zapping lantern. On a warm evening, you can watch nature run its course around you, punctuated only by the occasional loud pop as one of the Earth's lesser creations hits the lantern and explodes on contact. And the universe keeps turning. --Snip-- The Liberals got themselves a day of negative headlines after the boorish blog of Mike Klander, a party vice-president, was uncovered. This was the one that posted a picture of Olivia...

ESR's Tenth Annual Person of the Year By Steven Martinovich web posted January 3, 2005 My memory is probably failing me but for the past four years I've started out each Person of the Year by writing "It wasn't even close." Well, this year, it wasn't even close. What changed were the results. U.S. President George W. Bush didn't win this year. Although the American president finished strongly in second spot, ahead of other worthy nominations which included the people of Iraq, the U.S. military, Pope John Paul II, Joe Leiberman, ESR scribe/presidential candidate/actor Michael Moriarty, Angela Merkel and Tom...

Tory campaign worker resigns after blog posting Updated Fri. Dec. 30 2005 9:12 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff The campaign manager for Conservative Party member Peter Goldring stepped down Friday, after writing a blog posting that called for Alberta's independence. Gordon Stamp, who posts under the pseudonym "Psycho," wrote on Free Dominion: "I honestly see no benefit for Alberta to remain part of Canada. Seriously, there is absolutely nothing that Canada as a nation offers me." He goes on to compare Alberta to "a battered wife who has not yet realized that being divorced is better than staying married." While...

True Conservatives Running as Independents against Anti-Family, Anti-Life ‘Conservative’ Candidates By Terry Vanderheyden OTTAWA, December 22, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At least two conservative pro-family independents have decided to face-off with Conservatives who support same-sex “marriage” and abortion in the federal election. Port Moody-Westwood-Port Coquitlam, BC, Conservative MP James Moore riled a host of conservatives after he won his seat in 2000 while claiming that he was pro-family and pro-life, then later voted in favour of the Liberal Party’s gay “marriage” legislation. Now a former member of his riding executive, Greg Watrich, is running against Moore as an independent. “There is...

Well, I'm getting this error message: "phpBB : Critical Error Could not connect to the database" Here are FD's backup sites: -Blue Wave-- -Free Dominion Refugees--

In our search for a place to together when FR is down, many of searched the Yahoo site and found that wasn't to our liking and located a party over at http://www.freedominion.ca They welcomed us Freepers and we had a great time...we always knew Canada is propped up by the few smart, hard working folk. They helped us out when we were away from "home" and I'd like to say THANK YOU, FREE DOMINION!

Captain's Quarters has really stirred up the Canadian blogosphere by carrying details of court testimony on a governmental scandal that is banned from publication in the Great White North. The scandal is about the use of Canadian government money, laundered through a private ad agency, to hire Liberal Party hacks, and is so serious it may catapault the Canadian conservatives into power. This incident marks one more step by the blogosphere into the realm of news generation as opposed to mere commentary. Captain Ed is well aware of this and adds the uncustomary (for a blog) disclaimer: Thanks to a...

Freerepublic's Canadian cousin, Freedominion has been under hack seige for two days now. Noxious emails to all members yesterday were followed up today first by all comments being reworded as a profane reference to Republicans, and now by the following oddball words strewn throughout all posts: 'Limecat', H4X, KHAAAAAAAAN, ROAR and AKJREJOIFJKJEWOIUOIWE

e-mail sent says this as subject:: YOU WILL DIE SHORTLY!

OTTAWA – A partial birth abortion ban moved a step closer to the CPC Policy Convention floor today at the Regional Policy in Ottawa today. A motion to completely ban the gruesome abortion procedure passed muster at the Kingston and the Islands policy meeting five days ago, with a decisive 23 to 4 majority. Author of the motion to ban partial birth abortions, Connie Wilkins, sat in on the Regional Meeting’s breakout sessions dealing with Issues of Conscience. While all other groups were granted four motions to be put forward for approval at the main Policy Convention in Montreal, the...

Free Dominion has been hackedassistance requested Free Republic's Canadian chapter has been hacked by a group of commie weenies calling themselves the Internet Liberation Front. Isn't that a sweet, inspiring name? So original too, I'll bet no one in the sixties were clever enough to call themselves a liberation front. They have replaced our site URL with a bunch of commie nonsense that can be viewed here. If anyone has the ability to give them a taste of their own medicine, payback will be a female dog. Of course we would never condone such an action, we would prefer to...

Supporters enjoy close encounter with president While downtown streets were closed to pedestrians, school buses were cancelled in the name of security and protesters were kept out of the sight of George W. Bush, about 60 pro-Bush demonstrators were allowed to stand within metres of the U.S. president's motorcade as it left Ottawa Airport yesterday. Connie Wilkins, a member of a pro-United States website, www.FreeDominion.ca, and one of the organizers of the rally, said her group contacted RCMP when they heard Mr. Bush was coming. Ms. Wilkins said the group alerted RCMP they intended to be on the parkway, just...

I just saw Connie, the co-owner of the sister site Free Dominion on CBC Newsworld. She is among many Bush supporters at the rally in Ottawa and made sure they were the first group to great the motorcade, receiving a thumbs up sign from President Bush. She was speaking about the Canadian Conservatives that support Bush and Americans on the Free Dominion forum. She then mentioned the Free Republic website and how popular it is among both Canadians and Americans.

The "5 fingered wave" has now gone international. For all of you Free Dominioners, and other principled conservatives, who stood in the cold for over three hours to welcome American President Bush to Canada, here is your reward. Personally...I feel overpaid. President Bush's realtime response to the "5 fingered wave"

Protesters gear up for Bush Ottawa — Protesters are frantically organizing to yank the welcome mat out from under U.S. President George W. Bush when he arrives here Tuesday. Sporadic graffiti heralds what could be a nasty reception as he starts a two-day visit to Canada. The black scrawl spray painted across a walkway near Parliament Hill uses a familiar obscenity to tell Bush to stay away. A noon-hour rally Tuesday is expected to draw thousands of marchers anxious to vent their views on everything from the war in Iraq to plans for a U.S. anti-missile defence shield. Smaller events...

Entropy Squared & conniewFree Dominion November 21, 2004 Under attack President Bush is coming to Canada for a visit on November 30 and December 1. The MSM in Canada is going to paint it as a disaster of some type and many assorted Canadian leftists are planning on protesting his visit. Free Dominion is setting up welcoming demonstrations for President Bush to show him - and all Americans - that all Canadians are not Liberal weenies. Free Dominion has contacts in the U.S. Embassy, who know and trust us, and they are going to feed us information as to where...

FreeDominion.ca has some great (if I say so myself) freeping tools to use in the current election. Canadian freepers should go to http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=24715 to get them (free), and you Americans might want to take a look and do something similar here.

Mark Steyn is back! Canada’s favourite columnist joins new Western-based magazine March 1, 2004 - CALGARY- Mark Steyn, the popular columnist who was a reader favourite at the National Post and ranks as one of the most in-demand writers in the world, will be writing for Canadians once again, in the pages of the Western Standard magazine which rolls of the presses on March 12th. Canadians who have come to love Steyn, who writes regularly for such publications as the New York Sun, the Daily Telegraph of London, the Jerusalem Post and National Review, know that his columns alone are...

Entropy Squared & Connie Wilkins Free Dominion August 26, 2003 David Frum to speak at Free Dominion’s 2004 Awards Banquet Today we finalized arrangements to have David Frum appear as our featured speaker at the 2004 Free Dominion Principled Conservatism Awards Banquet to be held – again - at Tudor Hall in Ottawa, Ontario. We have chosen February 18, 2004 for this year’s banquet because it is the evening before the Canadian Alliance Convention in Ottawa so it will serve as the social and political kick-off of the weekend for conventioners. David Frum - Presidential Speechwriter, Journalist, Author Dubbed "one...

Free Republic's International Influence It's FReepathon time again and, as grateful FReepers, we thought it would be timely to let people know how much Free Republic has influenced political events in Canada. Two and a half years ago we started Free Dominion as the Canada Chapter of Free Republic. When we launched our website we were touched by the moral support of hundreds of FReepers who contacted us and wished us well. We have been encouraged by our involvement in the Free Republic Network, educated at the Las Vegas FR Convention, and we enjoy being members of the FR forum....

Received by email. Free Dominion rally coverage, please feel free to pass images on and repost in other sites. FREE DOMINION COVERAGE OF RALLIES FOR APRIL 5th WEEKEND Calgary Rally, Saturday, April 5, 2003 go > http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10453 Winnipeg Rally, Saturday April 5, 2003 go > http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10449 Toronto Rally, Friday, April 4, 2003 go > http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10429 FREE DOMINION COVERAGE OF RALLIES FOR MARCH 29th WEEKEND Red Deer, March 29, 2003 - go > http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10381 Ottawa, March 29, 2003 - go > http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10296 Calgary, March 30, 2003 - go > http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10385 UPCOMING FREEDOM RALLIES SUPPORTING THE USA Friday - April 12, 2003...

The Free Dominion G.I. Phone Home Project Nothing can reassure a soldier's loved ones--or more clearly remind our heroes why they fight--than a phone call home. You can show your support for the American fighting troops by donating to the Free Dominion G.I. Phone Home fund. Donations from individuals and businesses will be used to purchase long distance minutes and U.S. Central Command has offered to help in the distribution of the phone cards to the troops. We are currently looking for a telephone company willing to match the long distance minutes we are able to purchase, doubling the time...