Prince Edward Island’s Human Rights Commission may have nine staff members to police a population of 140,000, making it, as Ezra Levant pointed out, proportionately over ten times larger than the Canadian Human Rights Commission, but it’s not busy enough for at least one Islander. After PEI’s HRC rejected her claim of discrimination in [...]

Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean’s trip to Nunavut has made a monarchist of former republican and Halifax Chronicle-Herald columnist Steve Maher.
THE SIGHT — beautiful beyond words — of Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean holding a bloody piece of raw seal heart in her viceregal mouth has convinced me to abandon my long-held republican beliefs and half-heartedly embrace [...]

The Green Party lives up to its usual standards of organisation in the Nova Scotia election campaign.
You can be forgiven if you can’t keep track of who’s running for the Green party.
The party has been grappling with candidates pulling out at the last minute in many ridings. These include:
•Guysborough-Sheet Harbour. The party’s website recently listed [...]

Cry me a river.
Alexander Beers is charged with impaired driving causing death in connection with the death of a 14-year-old Moncton girl in July 2007. He has told a judge that the RCMP violated his rights on the night he was arrested, but the RCMP rejects his version of events.
James Fowler, Beers’s lawyer, said [...]

Speaking in Israel last Sunday, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney (at right) condemned the new anti-Semitism arising from an alliance between Western leftists and Islamic extremists, calling it even worse than the “old European” anti-Semitism.
“The existential threat faced by Israel on a daily basis is ultimately a threat to the broader Western civilization,” said [...]

A man charged with criminal negligence causing death following a street-racing incident was supposed to be under house arrest at the time.
One of the men charged after a woman died in a racing incident in eastern Newfoundland earlier this month had been instructed to stay at home under house arrest, CBC News has learned.
Ryan Watkins, [...]

Sikhism officially rejects India’s caste system, but the murder of a Sikh religious leader at a Vienna temple is believed to have been motivated by caste-based prejudice. The mayhem in Vienna sparked rioting in Punjab state, northwest India.
Dalits in Vancouver have denounced the killing, calling it an act of terrorism.
Outraged by the killing of [...]

Federal Grit leader Michael Ignatieff just visited Nova Scotia and, based on the Halifax Chronicle-Herald report, he had nothing substantive to say. What do you expect from the man of whom Rick Mercer said, “Does he have any opinions on anything? I haven’t heard them.”
Federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff says Rodney MacDonald and [...]

The Nova Scotia NDP offers another amazingly innocuous ingenious plan to improve health care if it wins the provincial election on 9 June. To reduce chronic disease rates, it will set up two ongoing gabfests—a council and a task force—and it will “work closely” with medical professionals. The sheer genius of NDP leader Darrell [...]

Marty Van Doren, RCMP officer and human trafficking co-ordinator for Ontario division, says that underage aboriginal girls make up some 90 percent of visible sex trade workers in Canada.
And make no mistake about it, most prostitutes are lured or forced into the life, he said.
“Are they victims? — yeah, absolutely,” Van Doren said.
The most [...]

Canadian television network Global TV will soon broadcast “Revealed: Hip 2B Holy”, a news documentary about evangelical Christians. Global news anchor Kevin Newman thinks that, for most Canadians, evangelicals represent a foreign sub-culture typically associated with the United States. He hopes the show will correct such misconceptions.
Narrated by Global National anchor Kevin [...]

The place isn’t going to open for another three years, and it’s already millions of dollars in the hole.
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, not set to open until 2012, is already running a deficit.
The latest corporate report for the museum, currently under construction in Winnipeg, indicates a $5.2-million shortfall in its operating budget.
Officials told [...]

An all-night negotiation session resulted in a tentative agreement between the Newfoundland and Labrador Nurses’ Union and the provincial government.  No prizes for guessing who’s patting himself on the back.
Williams says phone call led to tentative deal with nurses
Newfoundland and Labrador’s premier said Wednesday it was his late-evening phone call that broke the deadlock between [...]

Jennifer McSwain of Hay River, Northwest Territories, is one happy lady because the NWT Human Rights Commission has ruled in her favour.   She complained that the territory’s Department of Justice discriminated against her because of her marital status when the South Mackenzie Correctional Centre (SMCC) refused to allow inmates to remove snow at her home.
She [...]

Hasibullah Sidiqi is on trial in Ottawa for shooting to death his sister and her fiancé. He does not deny the homicides, but claims he was justified because his sister had offended family honour by becoming engaged without their father’s consent. In effect, says Mr Sidiqi, he was provoked by his sister’s actions—a [...]