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dewlineMichael Enright argued today that the Canadian press - as a whole, not just the news service that's trademarked the name "Canadian Press" - is not entirely free in Canada.
I would argue as a sidebar that the likes of James Sears got too little of what he deserved in response to his efforts to curtail the freedoms of his fellow humans. I would not call James Sears a journalist at all, in fact. Also, I consider that the likes of Jamal Khashoggi, Marie Colvin, and Anna Politovskaya - among many others across this planet - have certainly gotten none of what they deserved: long, productive lives in service of their fellow humans.
That we now have the Journalistic Sources Protection Act in force in Canadian law is, I think, an improvement upon the state of my nation's affairs. That it has some actual teeth, even more so. I hope those teeth and the jaws in which they're rooted stay healthy. Vigilance is required for that to become and remain so...in this, as in so many other things.
I would argue as a sidebar that the likes of James Sears got too little of what he deserved in response to his efforts to curtail the freedoms of his fellow humans. I would not call James Sears a journalist at all, in fact. Also, I consider that the likes of Jamal Khashoggi, Marie Colvin, and Anna Politovskaya - among many others across this planet - have certainly gotten none of what they deserved: long, productive lives in service of their fellow humans.
That we now have the Journalistic Sources Protection Act in force in Canadian law is, I think, an improvement upon the state of my nation's affairs. That it has some actual teeth, even more so. I hope those teeth and the jaws in which they're rooted stay healthy. Vigilance is required for that to become and remain so...in this, as in so many other things.
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