Having read your editorial and opinion articles for some years, I feel the urge to tell you that
I am very impressed. They are consistently well-thought-out and consistently better than those appearing in other Toronto papers. If only our daily newspapers were so thoughtful. Keep up the great work. SIMON ROSENBLUM

Bigots deserve rights
In political life, being misquoted is a fact of life but I suppose the irony of being misquoted in an article on the absolute freedom of speech is doubly ironic (“Speech! Speech! Speech!,” Notebook, Feb. 12). You see I am absolutely in favour of right-wing bigots having freedom of speech. Their opponents deserve the same rights.

What I actually pointed out to your hero Mark Steyn at the hearings is that there is a limit to freedom of speech in a democracy and that is not only when there’s an incitement to violence but when your freedom of speech bumps up against my right to housing, jobs, i.e., my freedom. Hence the libertarians have no answer (and neither did Mark) to why we must curtail someone’s freedom-of-speech rights if they happen to want to say that they don’t hire Jews for example. Hateful speech can lead to hateful action. That is why we have a Charter of Rights and a Human Rights Code and the enforcement of both.

I hope EYE WEEKLY supports a human rights code and its enforcement. At the very least check Hansard and recognize irony whenyou hear it. CHERI DINOVO MPP, PARKDALE HIGH PARK

CORRECTION: The York Federation of Students has revoked funding and access to student-owned spaces for groups calling to ban abortion and allows discussion of abortion only “within a pro-choice realm.” Anti-abortion groups are free to meet on campus in spaces not controlled by the student government. Gilary Massa, a student politician at York, made comments to newspapers last spring that were repeated in papers in the past few weeks.
Some misleading information about these specifics appeared in Edward Keenan’s Notebook
column last week. EYE WEEKLY regrets the error.

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