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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.
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Berliner-Mauer (the German name for the Berlin Wall, which she has [...]

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Rooney says he became depressed and withdrawn after the alleged incident and complained to the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal.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 [...]

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.
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The Northern Ireland Human Rights [...]

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 been ordered [...]

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 is necessarily [...]

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 Orwell, [...]

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 criticism [...]

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.
Kindos [...]

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 [...]

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 parent [...]

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.
Kathy Shaidle was there.
I guess Bernie Farber of the Canadian Jewish Congress, and his best friend the Lying Jackal, and The Guy Who Is Suing [...]

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 the issue. [...]