https://www.rebelnews.com/ezra_levant_show_october_10_2024 - Video is behind a paywall but there's some text as well as a free audio podcast.
Toronto Star columnist Shree Paradkar received an award for advancing freedom of expression. Funny enough, we’ve never seen her do anything to promote free speech.
Paradkar received a nomination for the 2024 Ken Filkow Prize for mentoring reporters from minority communities.
"Her active and committed support of young journalists of colour is fundamental to expanding free expression for those who are often excluded from the means to articulate marginalized experiences of an unequal society," PEN Canada said in a statement.
https://twitter.com/ShreeParadkar/status/1367228255183515649
If it’s a given that to be an essential pillar of democracy, #freespeech needs reasonable restraints, all debate occurs within the macro possibilities that reside in that one word: reasonable. What is reasonable? My column: #DrSeuss
https://x.com/ShreeParadkar/status/1177202450010451970
So this happened. Bernier at the Star. Some of us resisted. I write about it, cognizant of columnist privilege. Also that even this level of accountability is absent from other #Cdnmedia (maybe missed it, but did Globe publish any staff dissent on Ezra?)
Here she is calling for the former leader of the Official Opposition to be banned from media because he denied Canada was systemically racist: https://tnc.news/2020/06/03/stockwell-day-resigns-from-telus-and-mcmillan-llp-for-saying-canada-is-not-racist/
The only legitimate response to this comment, under any circumstance, is "kill yourself".
Free Speech has always meant "rejection of viewpoint discrimination by the state". The very act of making a restriction of any kind is the abolition of free speech. And as you say, OP, his "reasonable restraint" is the criminalization of the opposition.