More than 200 people are expected to gather in Burlington, Ontario, Canada where WND CEO Joseph Farah will be the headline speaker for a conference on creating an alternative media culture in Canada.

The event this coming weekend is sponsored by "Equipping Christians for the Public Square," a Canadian-based center that advocates for the free expression of Christianity in the public square. The center's president, Tristan Emmanuel, is a regular columnist on WorldNetDaily.

Emmanuel says it's time Canadians had access to a home-grown alternative to the mainstream media in their country.

"I've been working in the area of Christian advocacy for several years now, and it is clear that our message will not reach ordinary Canadians via the conventional media stream," he says.

As an example, Emmanuel cites the lack of coverage of major social events and causes in Canada.

"Regulars on Parliament Hill – longtime members of Parliament and others – have told us that our marriage rally was the largest event they ever saw there," says Emmanuel. "But the Canadian media, to the degree that it covered the event at all, marginalized it, and estimated the crowd size at no more than a few thousand. But if a few dozen anti-sealing or pro-gay demonstrators show up on the Hill, it's lead news on the CBC and front page in the Globe and Mail. We're sick of it."

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Farah will talk about how a similar disconnect in the mainstream media in America prompted him to set up his website, WorldNetDaily.com, more than 10 years ago.

"Canadians," says Farah, "are suffering from the same kind of lockstep, pack journalism that has infected the American media. There's no sense anymore that reporting is about telling the truth. t's become all about agendas and political correctness."

Another speaker at the event will be Connie Wilkins. As WND reported earlier this year, Wilkins and her husband run a website which was the subject of a complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Commission for posting material "offensive" to Muslims. The complaint eventually was withdrawn, but Wilkins still faces a potential civil suit.

Attendees will also hear from Tim Bloedow, an aide to a Christian member of Parliament who recently wrote a book on Christianity in government.

The conference will be held at the Crossroads Centre in Burlington Friday night and Saturday. There will be a few tickets left available for sale at the door – $45 for the Friday evening "town hall forum" with the speakers, or $90 for Friday night and all-day Saturday, lunch included. Complete information on the conference is available online.

The trip represents Farah's fifth visit to the Toronto area in the last three years.

In Farah's latest book, "Stop The Presses! The Inside Story of the New Media Revolution," he discusses how the establishment news media have been taken over by radical activists who promote homosexuality, man-made catastrophic climate change and other causes.

In addition to his work at WND, Farah writes a daily column for WND and a weekly newspaper column for Creators Syndicate. He is also the founder and co-publisher of WND Books, a publishing venture that has produced several New York Times best sellers in the last five years.

He made a name for himself with traditional daily newspapers prior to his founding of WorldNetDaily – running the Sacramento Union, directing the news operation of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner for six years and serving as editor in chief of a group of California dailies and weeklies.

The former nationally syndicated daily talk-show host has written for such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Jerusalem Post, National Review, TV Guide, Reason, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Sun-Times and a host of other national, international and regional publications.

He has written or collaborated on more than a dozen books, including Rush Limbaugh's 1994 No. 1 best seller "See, I Told You So." His previous book, "Taking America Back," was first published in 2003 and again in paperback in 2005.

Farah's many journalism awards include honors for reporting to writing headlines to honesty and courage in journalism to editing and newspaper design. Farah speaks all over the world on topics ranging from the Middle East to the media to domestic policy issues.

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