Stand With Ezra

In November of 2014 I lost a defamation lawsuit brought by Khurrum Awan, the former youth president of the Canadian Islamic Congress.
One of the reasons I lost was that the judge ruled that calling Awan an anti-Semite was defamatory.
But Awan used to be the youth president of an anti-Semitic group — the Canadian Islamic Congress. Back then the CIC was led by a notorious anti-Semite, Mohamed Elmasry. Elmasry went on national TV to declare that any adult in Israel is a legitimate target...

I resigned as a member of the Law Society of Alberta yesterday. I actually had to apply for permission to quit.
Now, that’s not really news — I haven’t worked at a law firm in 13 years. I’m a journalist and activist. But for some reason, there were more than 100 news stories about my resignation....

Today was the day I was scheduled to be prosecuted for one charge of being “publicly discourteous or disrespectful to a Commissioner or Tribunal Chair of the Alberta Human Rights Commission” and two charges that my “public comments regarding the Alberta...

Here we go again.
This October I will be prosecuted for one charge of being “publicly discourteous or disrespectful to a Commissioner or Tribunal Chair of the Alberta Human Rights Commission” and two charges that my “public comments regarding the Alberta Human Rights...