A defamation lawsuit against the administrator of a Thunder Bay, Ontario, Facebook page can move ahead after an Ontario Superior Court judge in a recent ruling denied a motion that referring to drag queens as “groomers” was protected under Canada’s freedom of expression laws.
Rainbow Alliance Dryden (RAD), a Pride organization in Dryden, Ont., along with a drag performer in the northwestern Ontario city, filed a civil lawsuit against the page’s administrator, Brian Webster, last December. They alleged that a September 2022 post made on the Facebook page “Real Thunder Bay Courthouse Inside Edition” was defamatory.
