Commentary
Imagine, if you would, a major North American city so overwhelmed with wokeness it feels compelled to muzzle the speech of citizens whose views its mayor finds disagreeable.
Welcome to Calgary. Deemed by some studies as the continent’s most livable city, it can now cheerfully stake claim to being a hillbilly haven of tinpot dictatorship. Totalitarians R Us, the citizens of the city once known as Cowtown may now proudly proclaim.
The story began when some people protested children’s storytime events put on by transgender performers at city libraries. Other malcontents, apparently, have shown up at pools concerned that, going forward, their daughters will view male genitalia in the change room. Imagine….