CanWest Attempts to Halt Free Speech Satirists

As many know, CanWest is dealing with some debt and bankruptcy issues at the moment. Though despite this, CanWest is still attempting to sue activists who produced a spoof of The Vancouver Sun. The parody was four pages long and mainly concerned itself with satirizing CanWest's pro-Israel bias. CanWest's founder, Izzy Asper, has formerly admitted to the pro-Israel approach all of their papers (The Vancouver Sun, The Province, The National Post, and more) have taken in the past. So to combat this bias, the parody was created and CanWest was not impressed.

Art Threat posted an article regarding this issue titled: "CanWest Continues Anti-Satire Lawsuit Despite Looming Bankruptcy".

CanWest's lawsuit against the activists' parody of The Vancouver Sun is an attack on free speech. The following video and text display "Canwest's Global War on Satire" in further detail.

Canwest's Global War on Satire

On 6-7, evil-doing satirists spoofed one of Canwest Global's shining towers
of truth -- the Vancouver Sun newspaper.

Canwest, Canada's largest media company, has launched a Global War on Satire
to ensure that fun-damentalist fanatics don't threaten its sacred freedom to
monopolize media or mock its profound pro-Israel and neo-conservative bias.

Brave Canwest is teetering on the verge of bankruptcy but it will never
abandon the War on Satire. The pernicious parodists will have to pull this
SLAPP suit from Canwest's cold dead hand.

Canwest needs you to support their War on Satire, watch, share and rate the
newsreel at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho8FHLsBny0"

Find out more about Canwest's anti-satire SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against
Public Participation) at http://seriouslyfreespeech.ca/a>