These are worrying times for free speech in this country and it is not helped with the persecution of British Columbia nurse Amy Hamm by the province’s College of Nurses and Midwives.

Hamm is the nurse who said sex is binary and also helped pay to put up a sign in Vancouver that declared, “I (heart) J K Rowling.”

For these and similar crimes, Hamm has now been suspended from nursing for a month and ordered to pay the shocking and unjustified sum of $93,639.80 in legal costs.

With its punitive disciplinary decision , the college appears to be saying that you can either shut up or suffer what amounts to a $93,000 fine for exercising your right to free speech.

It is a chilling ruling but one that is not surprising given the increasing number of self-important, bloated, authoritarian

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