This is chilling.

Yesterday Canadian Lawyer Magazine published an option piece by lawyer Shadin Farsai about practice directions requiring the announcement of pronouns https://web.archive.org/web/20210207171112/https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/opinion/british-columbias-practice-directions-on-preferred-gender-pronouns-in-court-are-problematic/337574

This is what Canadian Lawyer @CanLawMag say about themselves .

They publish wide and differing views.

As you would expect. In a magazine

For lawyers. By lawyers

Cue outrage

"You are questioning our right to exist"

It doesn't deserve an intelligent response says lawyer Frances Mahon

"Human rights issues don't have two sides" she says

What would be the point of human rights lawyers and courts then???

Blah blah blah

And a letter signed by human rights lawyers, professors etc...

I hope @CanLawMag publishes it

Let's see who bullied you into giving up journalistic integrity

And if course they folded

The article did not reflect the views of the magazine they said

Well of course not. It doesn't have to.

It was an *opinion* piece by Shardin Farsai

@timbwilbur

It's not enough to remove the offending piece

(Because lawyers can't possibly be expected to read things they disagree with )

Apologies will be demanded. Prostate yourself further. Grovel more...

If you are contemplating what will happen now there is blood in the water take a lesson from @Pomegranate2021

Have some guts. https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/01/29/the-witch-hunting-of-boyz-magazine/

Her is the article in thread form https://twitter.com/poppymoppet/status/1358520269028089860?s=19

And here is the cowardly letter that @CanLawMag sent Shadin Farsai

Do they only publish opinion pieces where they share the views.

So no opinion pieces which ever disagree with each other ??

(HT @jonkay )

And here are the inevitable demands for @CanLawMag to do penance