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WE'RE HIRING! The Democracy Fund is hiring a National Campus Coordinator to build Canadian Students for Free Speech – a national network of student-led clubs defending free expression at universities across Canada. If you have a background in campus organizing, advocacy, or political work and a genuine commitment to civil liberties, we want to hear from you. Apply now: thedemocracyfund.ca/national_campu…

NEWS RELEASE: The Democracy Fund has launched Canadian Students for Free Speech (CSFS), a national initiative to establish student-led, officially recognized free speech clubs on post-secondary campuses across Canada. Canadian Students for Free Speech (CSFS) will recruit, train, and support student organizers at universities and colleges across the country. Through CSFS, The Democracy Fund (TDF) will provide participating clubs with legal resources, speaker programming, professional communications materials, and on-the-ground support when university administrations move to restrict or suppress student expression. Learn more: thedemocracyfund.ca/the_democracy_…

We’re launching a campus organization, inspired by Charlie Kirk! The Democracy Fund is launching Canadian Students for Free Speech — a national network that will establish free speech clubs on every post-secondary campus in Canada. REPORT by @EzraLevant: rebelne.ws/4eTt74Y

We’re launching a campus organization, inspired by Charlie Kirk! The Democracy Fund is launching Canadian Students for Free Speech — a national network that will establish free speech clubs on every post-secondary campus in Canada. REPORT by @EzraLevant: rebelne.ws/4eTt74Y

We’re launching a campus organization, inspired by Charlie Kirk! A few months before Charlie Kirk was shot dead on a university campus, I had a long conversation with him — almost an hour. He was worried about Canadian universities. The cancel culture. The silencing of conservative students. The indoctrination factories he had spent his entire career fighting south of the border. He had seen it up close, and he asked me: were we going to fight back? I told him yes. Then, on September 10, 2025, a politically motivated sniper climbed onto a rooftop at Utah Valley University and put a bullet in Charlie Kirk’s neck while he was doing exactly what he always did — standing up for free speech on a university campus. I’ve thought about that conversation a lot since then. Because Charlie understood something that too many people on our side still refuse to face: the university campus isn’t just where young people go to get degrees. It’s where the woke mob is manufactured. It’s where the cancel culture foot soldiers are recruited, trained, and radicalised — before being sent out into the world to tear down everything we hold dear. We’ve made real gains. Independent media is getting stronger. We win (sometimes) in the courts. And the battle for free speech has new allies, like Elon Musk and his social media platform, X. But the woke machine at our universities is still running at full capacity. You know the stories: Lindsay Shepherd was a 22-year-old teaching assistant at Wilfrid Laurier University. She showed a short video clip of Jordan Peterson in class — as part of a lecture on a controversial topic. Her professors hauled her into an interrogation and compared her to a Nazi showing propaganda films. This past January, Conservative MP Garnett Genuis was refused permission to hold an event at York University. A sitting Member of Parliament — barred from speaking to students. Those are just the stories that got coverage. Every day, thousands of our students sit down, stay quiet, and self-censor — terrified of being destroyed by the mob before their careers have even started. And nobody is fighting for them. If we don’t fight at the source — inside the lecture halls and student unions where the actual indoctrination happens — we’re only ever chopping heads off a hydra. It will keep growing new ones. And right now, on Canadian campuses, our side has nobody. The Conservative Party’s campus clubs are too nervous to stick their necks out for anyone — they don’t want to risk their political careers. No think tank is focused on campuses. The faith communities, the advocacy organizations — all doing important work, but few of them are walking through the doors of our universities. That is why The Democracy Fund (@TDF_Can) is launching Canadian Students for Free Speech — a TDF-led national network that will establish student-led, officially recognized free speech clubs on every post-secondary campus in Canada. If you care about free speech, if you want to support conservative and freedom-oriented students on Canada’s university campuses, learn more about Canadian Students for Free Speech and donate to help build it. Here is the plan. The Democracy Fund is recruiting students with backbone, and we will train them in campus organising and free speech philosophy. We will coach them step by step through the process of getting their clubs officially recognised by their universities — and trust me, that battle alone will be worth documenting and publishing. We will equip them with professionally printed posters, pamphlets, and proven messaging to promote free speech. Canadian Students for Free Speech will bring speakers directly to those campuses: Tamara Lich, and other freedom fighters who’ve been through the fire. Debates, town halls, and meet-and-greets that give conservative and freedom-loving students a reason to come together and realise they are not alone. Canadian Students for Free Speech will train every club member to document every act of censorship — and we will publish every story. And when the administration comes after them — and they will come after them — Canadian Students for Free Speech will show up with cameras, journalists, and The Democracy Fund’s lawyers. Our students will not face the mob alone. To do this properly, The Democracy Fund is hiring a full-time National Campus Coordinator. This is a real, demanding job. This person will travel coast to coast — from UBC to Dalhousie — recruiting student leaders, running training weekends, coordinating speaker tours, managing club applications, and fielding that call at midnight when a dean suddenly decides to cancel a student event. They will be the spine of the entire operation. Beyond the salary, there are real costs to account for: printed materials for clubs at dozens of campuses, travel expenses for our speakers, legal fees when universities try to block or deregister our clubs, and the infrastructure to run a national student network. This is not a small project. But then again, losing an entire generation to indoctrination is no small matter. REPORT by @EzraLevant:

NEWS RELEASE: Tamara Lich appeal heads to Ontario Court of Appeal TDF Executive Director, Mark Joseph, said: “Ms. Lich has endured years of prosecution over conduct that we believe is constitutionally protected speech and peaceful protest. Furthermore, the government allocated substantial resources to secure a conviction and possible jail time for what are, at best, low-level criminal offences. This policy decision is difficult to justify when serious violent crime in Canada proliferates often without prosecution by the authorities.” Learn more: thedemocracyfund.ca/tamara_lich_ap…

We’re excited to introduce our inaugural cohort of Religious Freedom Fellows! 🎉 These 14 outstanding students and young professionals from across Canada have been selected for a yearlong program focused on intellectual growth, community building, and advancing the freedom to live, work, and worship without fear. Throughout the fellowship year, participants will connect with one another, engage with inspiring guest speakers, receive mentorship, and develop action projects to help advance religious freedom in Canada. We’re excited to support this promising group as they learn, lead, and make an impact. Meet the fellows: religiousfreedomfellowship.ca/fellows-2026/

Such an inspiring cohort! 👏👏👏

Can confirm you’ll feel much better about Canada’s prospects if you read through the end of these very impressive bios. These folks are the forest so we can be the trees.

🗣️ I am so very proud to have been selected as part of the inaugural cohort of Religious Freedom Fellows for The Democracy Fund (@TDF_Can). 📚The West is Athens and Jerusalem. Absent Jerusalem, there is no Athens, and therefore no West. My thanks to @AmandaAchtman ♥️

News release: TDF Announces inaugural cohort of Religious Freedom Fellows The Democracy Fund is pleased to present our inaugural cohort of Religious Freedom Fellows! These 14 remarkable students and young professionals from across Canada have been selected to engage in our yearlong program of intellectual formation, community building, and cultural entrepreneurship to advance the freedom to live, work, and worship without fear. "I am tremendously edified by this inaugural cohort of Religious Freedom Fellows," said program director @AmandaAchtman. "These young people show that there is indeed a rising generation of leaders ready to advance religious freedom through personal responsibility, civic mindedness, an interest in ideas, and a readiness to fulfill concrete projects in their own contexts." Learn more: thedemocracyfund.ca/tdf_inaugural_…

NEWS RELEASE: TDF secures withdrawal of criminal charges against peaceful Charter auditor The Democracy Fund (TDF) successfully secured the withdrawal of two obstruction charges against a Toronto Charter and police auditor who was charged after peacefully filming police from public property. One criminal harassment charge remains, and TDF continues to defend the client's Charter-protected right to observe and record government officials in public. Read our full news release here: thedemocracyfund.ca/withdrawal_obs…

Fourteen fellows have been selected from across Canada to advance the freedom to live, work, and worship without fear This Canada Day, @TDF_Can is pleased to present our inaugural cohort of Religious Freedom Fellows! religiousfreedomfellowship.ca/fellows-2026/

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