Canada’s top court upheld the freedom of a Quebec comedian to make fun of a public figure who suffers from a disability, but the narrow margin of the 5–4 decision has some advocates concerned that free speech rights are in jeopardy. In 2010, Quebec comedian Mike Ward began telling jokes about Jeremy Gabriel, a teen singer who became famous for performing for celebrities like Pope Benedict XVI and Celine Dion. Eleven years later, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in a 5–4 decision that Ward’s comments did not constitute discrimination under Quebec’s provincial charter of human rights. “A discrimination claim is not, and must not become, an action in defamation,” Chief Justice Richard Wagner and Justice Suzanne Côté wrote in their majority decision. “The two are governed by different considerations and have different purposes.” Gabriel was born in 1996 with a deformed head and severe deafness due to Treachers-Collins syndrome. …