<story><title>Canada&apos;s Muzzled Scientists Can Speak Freely Again</title><url>http://motherboard.vice.com/read/canadas-muzzled-scientists-can-speak-freely-again-so-i-called-a-few-up</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shaftoe</author><text>Does Canada have no protections for freedom of speech?&lt;p&gt;As an American, the idea of muzzling a scientist is strange.  I had thought Canada was more free than this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pessimizer</author><text>There is no absolute freedom of speech law in Canada; the closest they get to it is &amp;quot;Freedom of Expression&amp;quot;, and that&amp;#x27;s been abridged in dozens of ways through court decision.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Freedom_of_speech_in_Canada&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Freedom_of_speech_in_Canada&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Censorship_in_Canada#Criticism_of_Canadian_censorship&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Censorship_in_Canada#Criticism...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Canada&apos;s Muzzled Scientists Can Speak Freely Again</title><url>http://motherboard.vice.com/read/canadas-muzzled-scientists-can-speak-freely-again-so-i-called-a-few-up</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shaftoe</author><text>Does Canada have no protections for freedom of speech?&lt;p&gt;As an American, the idea of muzzling a scientist is strange.  I had thought Canada was more free than this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>forgetsusername</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;As an American, the idea of muzzling a scientist is strange. I had thought Canada was more free than this.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It isn&amp;#x27;t about law, it&amp;#x27;s (bad) policy and politics.  And to think that similar circumstances aren&amp;#x27;t occurring in America is naive.</text></comment>