Citizen Express Newsletter – Vol. 1, No. 1 – Friday Nov 3rd, 2017

Citizen Express Fast, Informative and Shareable! Vol. 1, No. 1—Friday, Nov. 3, 2017 CultureGuard files Human Rights Code complaint over Surrey School Board refusal to rent them Bell Centre Can a school board silence its critics by denying them access to a facility routinely rented to the public? Any fair-minded person would answer “No!”—but that’s exactly what the Surrey School Board did when CultureGuard sought to rent Surrey’s Bell Centre for a parents’ information meeting. The Surrey School Board, which administers the Bell Performing Arts Centre, rejected the request on…

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Citizen Express editorial by Ron Gray

Poisoned news and ‘junk-speak’ Welcome to the first issue of Citizen Express—a new addition to your media spectrum that’s going to expand the range of ‘permissible’ ideas in print (and in broadcast media, too). As a long-time journalist—trained in the craft at the elbow of the late, great Jack Webster—I’ve long lamented the gradual decline and corruption of the ‘news’ media: what was once journalism has now become a megaphone for only one side of political and social discourse. The radical left. The so-called ‘legacy’ media (which many now call…

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