Judge agrees Ottawa blogger was defamed, but it was 'fair comment'

In her ruling, Polowin found that John Baglow, an Ottawa blogger known as Dr. Dawg, had been defamed by an August 2010 chat room post that referred to him as �one of the Taliban�s more vocal supporters.�

"N_Fiddledog" said
I didn't even know there was a Conservative message board in Canada.

So I tripped on over there to check it out, and Oh Oh...

They might might have beat Dr Dawg and his Prog Blog, but he wasn't the only problem.

We all know who Richard Warman is right? The guy who was responsible for almost all those human rights claims?

So I don't know, but it looks like they took away his section 13 toy, but now he's just suing, or something. I forget for what.

Anyway no more Free Dominion.
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I just tried to check it out again, but the connection was dead

"BartSimpson" said


Crap, I've said worse about people I . Oversensitive much, Canada?

Today, Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Smith issued an order in the Richard Warman vs Mark and Connie Fournier and John Does defamation case heard September, 2013. In addition to ordering that we must pay Warman $127,000, Justice Smith issued an injunction against us ordering we that never publish, or allow to be published, anything negative about Richard Warman. This means we are barred for life from ever operating a public forum or a blog (even about cookie recipes) where the public can comment. If we do so, any one of Warman�s handful of supporters could, and probably would, use a common proxy server to avoid being traced, plant a negative comment about Warman on our site, and we would both be charged with contempt of court. If that happened --unlike in the Ottawa courtroom where we were blocked at every turn from presenting a defense-- we actually would have no defense. We would both go to jail. This life sentence was imposed for our terrible crimes of voicing our honestly held beliefs and allowing others to do the same. Defamation law, in its current state, is entirely inadequate and counterproductive when applied to the internet. Now it is being used as a tool of censorship. Effectively!

We are assessing our options.

In faith,
Mark and Connie Fournier

"If it takes force to impose your ideas on your fellow man, there is something wrong with your ideas. If you are willing to use force to impose your ideas on your fellow man, there is something wrong with you." - Mark Fournier