Via Savage: our Canadian Immigration Minister, Conservative Jason Kenney, has had all references to gay rights removed from the study guide for new citizens.

In the end, however, Mr. Kenney’s view trumped that of the bureaucrats. The 63-page guide, released with fanfare last November, contains no mention of gay and lesbian rights.

They claim the guide was edited for length, not political content. If that’s the case, that removing two bullet points was necessary to avoid turning the guide into an encyclopedia of rights*, then surely editing out sections which are so politically contemporary betrays a shocking level of either bias or incompetence on the part of the editor, the Minister himself.

Liberal MP Marlene Jennings called Kenney’s actions “abhorrent.”

QFT — this edited guide is unacceptable and un-Canadian. Next time you vote, pick ABC — Anything But Conservative.

The deleted sections included one reference that said Canadian churches ran Indian residential schools, where aboriginal children were abused.

Shameful.

* An “Encyclopedia of Rights” sounds like a fantastic thing to give to new citizens, no? It’s almost as though the Conservatives don’t want immigrants to know the extent of their freedoms.

Via Spacekat: Canada’s Internet is about to be turned over to the police, sans-warrant, and he got into a heated discussion about torrents with Michael Geist!

More analysis later, I have stuff to do… Let’s contact our MPs about this big brother bullshit.

You know what the best part of Obama’s win is? Fox News is turning on the government and calling bullshit on the stuff other dissenters have been for years (via Boing Boing):

The full ~24 minute long recording of the incident is here.