The Importance of Personalization in US and Canadian Digital Marketing

"Your piece gets to the heart of the most difficult aspect of Free Expression, as defined in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Canadian government does have the authority and responsibility to restrict hate speech. You can't just do or say whatever you want and expect to be tolerated, if not protected, as if it were a 'right'. It isn't. What Canadians frequently forget is that, while we are a melting pot of cultures, Canada is established on a foundation of culture and values, and becoming a Canadian entails adopting those values while honoring and retaining one's historical culture."There is no equivalence between a recognition of the rights of the Palestinian people and the slaughter of innocent people by the nihilistic Hamas."Pro-Hamas marches may be nasty, but they are still legal—which is a good thing."Clearly, these demonstrators do not qualify, and if they are not Canadian citizens, they should not be permitted to become so. Would that someone with the writer's level of control and thoughtfulness were in charge of Israel's response, which is clearly eroding with its attacks on civilian centers and closing the Egyptian escape hatch, whatever high moral ground Israel had regained after so much had been lost. However, I believe that placards saying "Death to Jews" count as hate speech, and individuals carrying them should be arrested, and if they are immigrants, deported if the law allows. Our country should not resemble the battlegrounds of the Middle East."

The right to free speech is very important and dare not to 

be suppressed or canceled just because someone else doesn't like what you are expressing."'Israel will endure': Bret Stephens on anti-Semitism and Israel's war against Hamas This is a fantastic conversation, and I wholeheartedly agree. I visited Israel in February with a group of Orthodox Jewish ladies. There is no doubt that we are family, sisters, regardless of political affiliation. "It never hurts to pray to something greater than ourselves.""Israeli authorities keep repeating they realize not all Gazans support Hamas, but they do nothing to demonstrate that they mean it. This entire scenario has been layered with generations of misinformation and lies. Neither the current Israeli government nor Hamas will find a solution. What is required is a complete shift on both sides."Why are previously outspoken colleges now reticent to criticize violence against Israel?"To keep customers/students pleased, universities must cater to a wide range of needs. Commenting on a horrible occurrence in a complex, multi-party, eight-decade battle may be regarded "tricky," especially if sympathies are mostly with one of the two main factions. However, when it comes to wholesale, carefully planned, and unforgivable atrocities, the act itself must be condemned in absolute terms, regardless of context. "This includes universities."

Whether universities may comment on such cases in a neutral manner is debatable

but given how delicate this specific instance is, I feel no public comment is the best option. Classroom discussions, backed by extensive historical research from both sides, would be beneficial, and a synopsis of these disputes and their findings could be a useful addition to the conversation."Just as Parliament's recent reminder of the complexities of the Eastern Front and the existence of "literal Nazis" prompted Canadians to reconsider our casual use of that term in day-to-day debate, perhaps live-streaming a 21st century pogrom will cause our leaders and media to think twice before casually tossing around words like "racist" and "hate" to describe merely disapproved beliefs.As Orwell famously stated of the term "fascism," these phrases have been so devalued by overuse in our political phony-wars that they frequently appear to have no meaning other than to denote "something not desirable."Because we are shielded from the majority of the world's issues, we have become overly comfortable expressing minor offenses in terms with truly nasty connotations in the world beyond our borders. An apparent example this week is the phrase "decolonization," which has been warmly adopted by Canadian governments, universities, elementary schools, libraries, bookstores, and even coffee shops. 

Most people who implement these policies undoubtedly consider 

"decolonization" to be something innocuous, such as including more representative works and stories from underrepresented—particularly Indigenous—voices in Canada. If that is all it means, and if "representation" does not become an excuse for compromising intellectual rigour and artistic excellence (which it should not and must not), it is a positive development.Within this broad majority, however, I would distinguish between those who are earnestly working to bind our society together and tend to old wounds, and those who go further, embracing revolutionary counter-culture symbols while ignoring their real-world implications. Among the latter are those who wear Che Guevara t-shirts to demonstrate that they are the "good guys," rather than because he took sadistic joy in murdering reactionary peasants and boasted that "Hatred is the central element of our struggle!" Hatred can drive people to become cold-blooded killers, pushing them past their natural limits. They don't mean Che, of course, assuming they've bothered to discover who he is.