Even at 32 weeks pregnant, a woman doesn’t necessarily have free speech in Canada.

Ask Lindsay Shepherd who is unemployed today because of an X post.

Is it worse to post a tweet with one’s opinion on Truth and Reconciliation Day or fire a pregnant staffer for posting it? This is the dilemma the Conservative Party of British Columbia is facing.

And the reality for 30-year-old mother of two who was just weeks away from going on maternity leave from her communications job working for the opposition Conservatives in Victoria.

“I was fired by John Rustad, Leader of the Conservative Party of BC, for a post on X,“ Shepherd wrote in a post on her social media account Thursday with a video in which she told the story and played the tape of Human Resources delivering her the news.

“The O

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