Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail columnist, discusses the media's right to offend and argues that human rights commissions should not interfere with freedom of expression. Keynote speech at the Joseph Howe Symposium, "The Media's Right to Offend: Exploring legal and ethical limits on free speech", hosted by University of King's College School of Journalism and the Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership on November 1, 2008.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
—Article 1 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR
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