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Judge orders PEI HRC to butt in again

May 28th, 2009 | 3 Comments

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 2003, [...]

Favourable HRC ruling “like winning the lottery”

May 20th, 2009 | 2 Comments

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. [...]

Muslim bloc to set up human rights commission

April 14th, 2009 | 1 Comment

The Organisation of the Islamic Conference, a bloc of 57 Muslim states, has announced plans to establish its own “independent” human tights commission. This is the same bunch of tyrants that wants to outlaw criticism of Islam around the world. Eklemeddin İhsanoğlu, the OIC Secretary-General, stressed in a statement Monday that “human rights and man’s [...]

People marrying inanimate objects

April 13th, 2009 | 4 Comments

The headline at Discover Magazine’s Discoblog says “Growing Numbers of People Marrying Inanimate Objects”, but only two such people are named in the post. I’m not sure that qualifies as “growing”, but it definitely qualifies as barmy. Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer is married to the Berlin Wall. […] Berliner-Mauer (the German name for the Berlin Wall, which [...]

Quebec HRT finds for plaintiff despite no corroboration

April 3rd, 2009 | 1 Comment

In March 2006, John Rooney called Jules Bertiboni in response to a newspaper ad for an apartment to rent. Mr Rooney subsequently claimed that Mr Bertiboni called him a “tapette” (“fag”) on the phone. Rooney says he became depressed and withdrawn after the alleged incident and complained to the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal. Mr Bertiboni [...]

Border checks could be discriminatory

March 4th, 2009 | 1 Comment

The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission has issued a warning that monitoring people crossing the border could be discriminatory.  Apparently, “human rights” are more important than national security. The Human Rights Commission in the North has warned that plans to introduce checks on people crossing the Border may lead to racial discrimination. […] The Northern [...]

BC HRT fines complainant $3500

February 21st, 2009 | 3 Comments

Another travesty of justice courtesy of the BC Human Rights Tribunal. A company was forced to spend $35,000 in legal fees before the complainant dropped her case, but the complainant is ordered to repay only $3500. A woman who filed a complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal alleging sexual harassment by an employer has [...]

Manitoba chiefs claim CBC promotes racism

February 12th, 2009 | Comments Off

Manitoba chiefs want the provincial government to scrutinise the CBC because allegedly racist comments have been posted at CBC News online. Media organizations are creating a forum for online racism by allowing readers and bloggers to comment on stories on news websites, Manitoba First Nations leaders said Wednesday. So, allowing readers and bloggers to comment [...]

No democracy without free expression

February 12th, 2009 | Comments Off

You can tell that Edward Keenan is a leftist because he lists Noam Chomsky as a “great thinker”, but he nevertheless agrees with Mark Steyn that the right of free speech is essential for democracy. [T]he point of Steyn’s testimony to the hearing — echoing the sentiments of great thinkers throughout history including Voltaire, George [...]

Barbara Hall has higher priorities than human rights

February 11th, 2009 | Comments Off

In his testimony to the Ontario parliament on Monday afternoon, Mark Steyn accused the province’s Human Rights Tribunal of ignoring honour killings.  When Toronto Sun columnist Christina Blizzard asked Barbara Hall, Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC), to comment about that, she received a troubling response. It was her response to Steyn’s [...]

“Human rights” geniuses at work

February 11th, 2009 | Comments Off

Ted Kindos, owner of Gator Ted’s Tap and Grill in Burlington, Ontario, asked Steve Gibson not to smoke marijuana at the front door of his establishment.  Mr Gibson, who has received medical authorisation to be a pothead, complained to the Ontario Human Rights Commission, which found Mr Kindos guilty of discriminating against a disabled person. [...]

NWT HRC orders payment for hurt feelings

January 30th, 2009 | 2 Comments

In three recent discrimination claims, the Northwest Territories Human Rights Commission has ordered businesses to pay over $38,000. Of this, $17,500 has been paid out to compensate for injuries to feelings and dignity. The most recent case involves a wheelchair-bound man whose feelings were hurt by being required to pay for a cab company’s handi-van [...]

Court orders human rights commission to butt out

January 26th, 2009 | 2 Comments

The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia has ordered the province’s Human Rights Commission (HRC) to reverse its decision to appoint a board of inquiry to adjudicate allegations that French public schools were unfairly deprived of funding. The Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission does not have the jurisdiction to look into the complaint of an Acadian [...]

Peace and love in Toronto

January 12th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Our human rights commissions have obviously done a smashing job of leading Canada down to the road to utopia.  Here’s a video taken at a peace rally in Toronto last Saturday. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h4GC_kby9s[/youtube] Kathy Shaidle was there. I guess Bernie Farber of the Canadian Jewish Congress, and his best friend the Lying Jackal, and The Guy [...]

Stephen Harper OK with Section 13

January 9th, 2009 | 1 Comment

In his year-end interview with Macleans, our prime minister said he opposes amending the Canadian Human Rights Act at this time. Q: Will the government amend the Canadian Human Rights Act to prevent unwarranted interferences in free expression by human rights commissions? A: The government has no plans to do so. We’re certainly aware of [...]