Just a heads up to the SBP membership here and a call for members to remember that this is a public forum with a responsibility for civility in what we write -- we had an incident today where I was contacted to remove a posting; the subject of the post felt they were being defamed in public and while they were fine with the rest of the post, they wanted the matter corrected by the SBP 'editors' -- being a free-speech sort of guy, I was initially hesitant because the postings here are property of their authors and I didn't want to set any dangerous precidents, but on careful review of the appropriate regulations, it seems I was mistaken; they were very much within their rights to make this request. According to NCRA:

In law, liability for defamation doesn't depend on whether a media outlet shares or agrees with the opinion of guests or callers, it depends on whether it "publishes" the opinion-and "publishes" in this context means broadcasts or conveys to the public.
[ via Laws Affecting Canadian Media Definitions ]

The post in question has been amended to remove the personal references; the guidelines for what constitutes 'defamation' are an interesting read, and while there are calls for libel reform more in tune with the realities of the Information Age, there are also some chilling precidents that spread a wide shadow -- for the interim perhaps we should do the Canadian thing and be a tad more distanced and polite when we go for the jugulars.