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Bad-taste merchant Mike Ward cheapens the fight for free speech by Brian Logan

The Canadian comic is at the Edinburgh fringe with his protest show about a joke that saw him ordered to pay $42,000. It's not a well-argued defenceMike Ward appears on his poster in a muzzle. Freedom of Speech Isn't Free runs his show title. Ward is the Canadian comic who's just been ordered to pay $42,000 by the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal for making jokes about Jérémy Gabriel, a disabled Canadian who made a nam…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:46AM on August 10, 2016

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