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Discrimination versus association
This writer hits the nail on the head. Our society (or more accurately, our political elite and our human rights professionals) are so afraid of the idea of discrimination, that even when “discrimination” is totally justifiable or even, dare I write it, good, then the gloves come off, the human rights police are dispatched and the offendi...
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Racism and discrimination: where are we headed?
Racism is an awful reality of life, something no government or society has yet been able to eradicate. Racists and their ilk attack something that is intrinsic to human life and human personhood, something that is sacred.
This week we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the famous “I have a dream” speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s impas...
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A common sense approach to idiocy
This is a sad story of a despicable and cowardly person who anonymously wrote a hateful letter to her neighbour. In it, she ranted about the neighbour’s autistic grandson, telling her that the boy, a “wild animal”, ought to be euthanized.
As Liberal Senator Jim Munson, an autism advocate, said, “This is a crime of ignorance and a crime o...
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The right to procedural accommodation
This short explanation on the right to procedural accommodation is a bit more technical but worth working through. I'll attempt a brief summary: at the federal level, the Canada Human Rights Act does not require a duty of federal employers to make special accommodations for employees procedurally if it has demonstrated that it has a bona ...
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I like the other discrimination test better
The Ontario Court of Appeal has overturned a decision by the Divisional Court which overturned a race discrimination claim by the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. The Court of Appeal has confirmed that the test for finding discrimination under the Ontario Human Rights Code does not require that the discrimination be intentional.
The Story:...
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In racism claims, preference given to allegations over conclusive proof
In racism claims, it seems the BC Human Rights Tribunal gives preference to allegations of racist behaviour (by visible minorities) over conclusive proof of non-racist behaviour (by corporations or members of the visible majority). In a rather rich ruling, Tribunal member Norman Trerise found that the Shark Club of Langley discriminated a...
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Watch what you post on Facebook!
A number of years ago, I once jokingly said that maybe one day even Facebook posts would be subject to Human Rights complaints. I guess I forgot to knock on wood.
Earlier this summer the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario found a disgruntled employee guilty of racial harassment in the workplace for calling her manager a “dirty Mexican”. Wh...
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You kinda need evidence before ruining a corporation's reputation
The Supreme Court in B.C. had to overturn a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ruling this week, a ruling that found a shipyard company guilty of discrimination. Why the reversal? Well, said the judge: “There was no evidence capable of proving the case of discrimination before the tribunal.”
Victoria Shipyards highly values its reputation as a f...
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The human right to walk topless wherever you want
I was going to open this post by complaining about the derogation of real human rights or the continuing absurdity of Canada’s “human rights” complaints, but that line is starting to get a little repetitive (see some of the recent stories below). Basically, this lady thinks she has a government enforceable human right to walk wherever she...
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The diminishing of human rights continues
The human right to lug your bulky baby carriage wherever you darn well please, including into private establishments, has been threatened. Awful, isn’t it? How could such an assault on freedom and liberty and human rights still be possible in a progressive country such as Canada? (I hope our dear readers can note the heavy sarcasm…)
A sm...
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This is starting to get ridiculous...
Not again?! This is starting to get ridiculous. Correction: it already was ridiculous; this is starting to become asinine. There is no fundamental human right to the barber of your choice!
I thought that a similar complaint in Toronto a few months back about this alleged fundamental human right of getting-a-hair-cut-by-the-barber-of-you...
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Diatribe read by unintended recipient costs man $8,000
The Quebec Human Rights Commission has ordered a man to pay “moral and punitive” damages to a woman who was begging outside a liquor store. The case, which stretches over the past three years, involves an irate customer of the SAQ liquor stores, named Delisle, who wrote a diatribe about panhandlers outside these venues, in particular a Ms...
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Discrimination versus association
This writer hits the nail on the head. Our society (or more accurately, our political elite and our human rights professionals) are so afraid of the idea of discrimination, that even when “discrimination” is totally justifiable or even, dare I write it, good, then the gloves come off, the human rights police are dispatched and the offendi...
Read more
Racism and discrimination: where are we headed?
Racism is an awful reality of life, something no government or society has yet been able to eradicate. Racists and their ilk attack something that is intrinsic to human life and human personhood, something that is sacred.
This week we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the famous “I have a dream” speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s impas...
Read more
A common sense approach to idiocy
This is a sad story of a despicable and cowardly person who anonymously wrote a hateful letter to her neighbour. In it, she ranted about the neighbour’s autistic grandson, telling her that the boy, a “wild animal”, ought to be euthanized.
As Liberal Senator Jim Munson, an autism advocate, said, “This is a crime of ignorance and a crime o...
Read more
The right to procedural accommodation
This short explanation on the right to procedural accommodation is a bit more technical but worth working through. I'll attempt a brief summary: at the federal level, the Canada Human Rights Act does not require a duty of federal employers to make special accommodations for employees procedurally if it has demonstrated that it has a bona ...
Read more
I like the other discrimination test better
The Ontario Court of Appeal has overturned a decision by the Divisional Court which overturned a race discrimination claim by the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. The Court of Appeal has confirmed that the test for finding discrimination under the Ontario Human Rights Code does not require that the discrimination be intentional.
The Story:...
Read more
In racism claims, preference given to allegations over conclusive proof
In racism claims, it seems the BC Human Rights Tribunal gives preference to allegations of racist behaviour (by visible minorities) over conclusive proof of non-racist behaviour (by corporations or members of the visible majority). In a rather rich ruling, Tribunal member Norman Trerise found that the Shark Club of Langley discriminated a...
Read more
Watch what you post on Facebook!
A number of years ago, I once jokingly said that maybe one day even Facebook posts would be subject to Human Rights complaints. I guess I forgot to knock on wood.
Earlier this summer the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario found a disgruntled employee guilty of racial harassment in the workplace for calling her manager a “dirty Mexican”. Wh...
Read more
You kinda need evidence before ruining a corporation's reputation
The Supreme Court in B.C. had to overturn a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ruling this week, a ruling that found a shipyard company guilty of discrimination. Why the reversal? Well, said the judge: “There was no evidence capable of proving the case of discrimination before the tribunal.”
Victoria Shipyards highly values its reputation as a f...
Read more
The human right to walk topless wherever you want
I was going to open this post by complaining about the derogation of real human rights or the continuing absurdity of Canada’s “human rights” complaints, but that line is starting to get a little repetitive (see some of the recent stories below). Basically, this lady thinks she has a government enforceable human right to walk wherever she...
Read more
The diminishing of human rights continues
The human right to lug your bulky baby carriage wherever you darn well please, including into private establishments, has been threatened. Awful, isn’t it? How could such an assault on freedom and liberty and human rights still be possible in a progressive country such as Canada? (I hope our dear readers can note the heavy sarcasm…)
A sm...
Read more
This is starting to get ridiculous...
Not again?! This is starting to get ridiculous. Correction: it already was ridiculous; this is starting to become asinine. There is no fundamental human right to the barber of your choice!
I thought that a similar complaint in Toronto a few months back about this alleged fundamental human right of getting-a-hair-cut-by-the-barber-of-you...
Read more
Diatribe read by unintended recipient costs man $8,000
The Quebec Human Rights Commission has ordered a man to pay “moral and punitive” damages to a woman who was begging outside a liquor store. The case, which stretches over the past three years, involves an irate customer of the SAQ liquor stores, named Delisle, who wrote a diatribe about panhandlers outside these venues, in particular a Ms...
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