NEW: A couple days ago, Breakdown host Nate Pike announced that he was being court ordered to wipe the Alberta politics show from the web as part of a libel lawsuit from a well-connected Alberta businessman.
This development should concern all journalists.
https://open.substack.com/pub/theorchard/p/muzzling-of-the-breakdown-should?r=223k9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
This development should concern all journalists.
https://open.substack.com/pub/theorchard/p/muzzling-of-the-breakdown-should?r=223k9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Alberta lacks that procedure.
Thanks for posting
I don’t know how, but I’m thinking such court orders are public, aren’t they?
Proves how underhanded Mraich is.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/alberta-political-web-series-temporarily-shut-down-by-court-order/
As to the actual suit, a copy is on Nate’s GoFundMe page
This has great viral trending momentum already 👏
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
The bell cannot be unrung
The government elected by Albertans, intimidating Albertans.
Doesn't sound like democracy to me.
Fascism.
I'm trying to find how much the Ontario tax payer pays in subsidizing Ontario nuclear energy as Ford/Moe/Kenney/Lecce/Chipeur try to push SMR as viable.
Seems like a means to keep o&g alive