Mon Dec 1, 2025 - 7:11 pm EST CALGARY, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) – A Canadian pastor who received one year’s house arrest for protesting a “drag queen story hour” event marketed to children at a public library in 2023 might soon face jail time after refusing to apologize to a local librarian. Pastor Derek Reimer of Calgary, Alberta, is currently serving a one-year house arrest, which he had previously appealed, as reported by LifeSiteNews. Last Wednesday, he was in court to go over his sentence conditions. As reported by LifeSiteNews, in 2023, Reimer’s Mission 7 Ministries lawyer Andrew MacKenzie filed an appeal to a sentence of one year’s house arrest and two years’ probation handed to the pastor before Christmas for protesting a “drag queen story hour” event targeting kids at Calgary’s Saddletown Library in the spring of 2023. Government lawyers had been seeking to sentence Reimer to jail time for his protest against the LGBT agenda. Reimer told LifeSiteNews at the time of his …