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Overall impressions of free speech symposium

November 1st, 2008 | 2 Comments

I plan to blog some of the events from the Joseph Howe Symposium, “The Media’s Right to Offend: The Legal and Ethical Limits on Free Speech” tomorrow and Monday, but I thought I’d briefly offer my overall impressions of the day. Ezra Levant is a riveting and dynamic speaker, and was without a doubt the [...]

Free speech symposium: Live blog

November 1st, 2008 | Comments Off

I just returned from the Joseph Howe Symposium, “The Media’s Right to Offend: The Legal and Ethical Limits on Free Speech”, featuring Ezra Levant, Margaret Wente, and several other experts in Canadian free speech law and/or journalism.  While there, I noticed two young women typing on laptop computers.  They were live blogging the day’s proceedings [...]

Bob Dylan: “In The Garden”

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A Dylan gospel song for All Saints’ Day.  This powerful and impassioned performance of “In The Garden” comes from 1980.  (There’s a glitch in the recording near the very end, after the final verse.) [myspace]http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=7779785[/myspace] When they came for Him in the garden, did they know? When they came for Him in the garden, did [...]

All Saints’ Day

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The collect for today, All Saints’ Day, from the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer: O Almighty God, who hast knit together thine elect in one communion and fellowship, in the mystical body of thy Son Christ our Lord; Grant us grace so to follow thy blessed Saints in all virtuous and godly living, that [...]