City concerned the messaging supports 'a traditional and biologically determined definition of gender in line with conservative values'

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We have clearly entered the realm of the ludicrous when a local government in Canada is banning what most reasonable people would regard as the dictionary definition of what is a woman.

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The City of Hamilton, Ont., believes that “Woman: An Adult Female,” is too harmful, too toxic and too outrageous to be put on a bus shelter billboard.

Once more, it is the institutions, such as local governments and universities, that we expect to be guardians of our fundamental rights, which, instead, trample them into the dust.

But the “Woman: An Adult Female” billboard isn’t just about free speech, it is a glimpse into a Canadian — and, indeed, Western — society that has lost the ability to talk and disagree among itself.

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“I think our society has unfortunately become increasingly polarized,” says Lia Milousis, a lawyer with the Acacia Group, an Ottawa-based law firm specializing in defence of churches and charities from Charter abuses and government overreach.

“And I think part of that is we’ve not practiced disagreeing and we........

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