Freedom of speech wonks in for a treat

Marci McDonald to speak at Toronto Reference Library PEN event

Freedom of Speech is the topic of discussion at the Right Angles: Freedom of Speech and the Conservative Mind event being held Friday, March 2 at the Toronto Reference Library.

The event will be hosted by PEN Canada and moderated by John Lorinc. Panellists include David Akin, Barbara Kay, Christopher Hume and Marci McDonald.They will respond to such questions as Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? And has the rise of conservative media given voice to a silenced group, or made the discussion of current affairs unnecessarily tendentious?

Below is a video clip of McDonald from an Xtra interview that was done following the release of her book The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada.

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