CANADA: Hate speech does not equal free speech
In 2002, Stephen Boissoin wrote a letter to the editor of the Red Deer Advocate that compared gay people to pedophiles and drug dealers. It was published under the headline "Homosexual agenda wicked." Darren Lund, a high school teacher in Red Deer at the time, complained to the Alberta Human Rights Commission that the letter was a hate crime after a gay teenager was attacked in the city. Mr. Boissoin has been fined and ordered to publish a full appology in the Red Deer Advocate. full story -*- court ruling