Wrong and wrong — we shouldn’t be cancelling offensive speech

I will get right to it. I don’t think the Sault Community Theatre Centre board should have bowed to criticism and cancelled comedian Ben Bankas’ show scheduled for March 6. It made the move, it said, because Bankas’ material “does not align” with the venue’s “stated values of respect, inclusion and cultural diversity.” It came about after Garden River Chief Karen Bell called on the centre to cancel Bankas because his jokes about indigenous people a