Posts Tagged ‘Human Rights Commissions’
December 30th, 2008 | 2 Comments
The National Human Rights Commission of Korea has accused Korean Air Lines of sex discrimination because the airline refuses to hire male flight attendants. The company forthrightly admits that it won’t even entertain applications from men who want to be flight attendants. Korean Air told the commission to shove off respectfully declined to comply. Korean [...]
Tags: Business and finance, Human Rights Commissions, South Korea, Transportation
Posted in Asia-Pacific | 2 Comments »
December 17th, 2008 | 3 Comments
Last April, Marc Lebuis of the excellent Quebec blog Point de Bascule filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission against Montreal Muslim imam Abou Hammaad Sulaiman Dameus Al-Hayiti. Imam al-Hayiti had written a book, published in Canada and available for download here (in French), containing nasty slurs against many groups in Canadian society, [...]
Tags: Civil liberties, Human Rights Commissions, Hypocrisy, Imam Al-Hayiti, Islamic teaching, Marc Lebuis, Stephen Boissoin, Tyranny
Posted in Canada, Canadian Politics and Government | 3 Comments »
December 12th, 2008 | 2 Comments
So says David Larter, executive director of the Prince Edward Island Human Rights Commission. That is a startling admission for a bureaucrat in his position to make. He needs to get with the programme: Hasn’t he read the script for defenders of Canada’s “human rights” commissions? Our human rights commissions avoid adversarial procedures. Canada [...]
Tags: Civil liberties, Human Rights Commissions, Prince Edward Island
Posted in Canada, Canadian Politics and Government, Worldview Issues | 2 Comments »
November 26th, 2008 | 2 Comments
Commenting in today’s National Post on the significance of the Moon Report, Liberal MP Keith Martin says it’s time for Parliament to act on free speech. While Prof. Moon’s report is excellent, the actual power to implement his recommendations, or any others that relate to the CHRA, resides not with the commission but with Parliament. [...]
Tags: Civil liberties, Human Rights Commissions, Keith Martin, Richard Moon
Posted in Canada, Canadian Politics and Government, Media and Journalism | 2 Comments »
November 24th, 2008 | 4 Comments
The Canadian Human Rights Commission has released Prof Richard Moon’s report on Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act and the regulation of hate speech on the internet. I have only read his conclusion but, based solely on that, we can say that the report is not what was expected. This is the full [...]
Tags: Civil liberties, Human Rights Commissions, Richard Moon
Posted in Canada, Canadian Politics and Government | 4 Comments »
November 23rd, 2008 | 1 Comment
MP Keith Martin (Lib – Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca) has introduced two private member’s motions to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and rein in the increasingly obnoxious Canadian Human Rights Commission. These latest motions replace and expand motion M-446, which Dr Martin introduced in the previous Parliament. Ezra Levant has more information. Here’s the exact [...]
Tags: Civil liberties, Human Rights Commissions, Keith Martin
Posted in Canada, Canadian Politics and Government | 1 Comment »
October 30th, 2008 | 2 Comments
Tonight is scheduled the first of two public discussions in Halifax on the now-obvious conflict between civil liberties and “human rights” commissions. This evening’s event, “Human Rights and Free Speech: Have Commissions or the Media Gone Too Far?”, is sponsored by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs (CCEPA) and will be held at [...]
Tags: CCEPA Debate, Civil liberties, Halifax, Human Rights Commissions, Nova Scotia
Posted in Canada, Canadian Politics and Government, Media and Journalism, Worldview Issues | 2 Comments »
October 17th, 2008 | Comments Off
My response to that question would be “Is the Pope Catholic?”, but others take a different view. I have just received via e-mail notification that Halifax is to be the site of another public meeting on the status of free speech. This in addition to the recently announced symposium at King’s College. The Canadian Centre [...]
Tags: Bruce MacKinnon, Cartoons, CCEPA Debate, Civil liberties, Human Rights Commissions, Nova Scotia
Posted in Canadian Politics and Government, Worldview Issues | Comments Off
October 11th, 2008 | 1 Comment
The bullies and cowards at the BC Human Rights Tribunal have rejected the complaint against Maclean’s magazine over the excerpt from Mark Steyn’s book America Alone. The panel has concluded that the complaints are not justified because the complainants have not established that the Article is likely to expose them to hatred or contempt on [...]
Tags: British Columbia, Civil liberties, Human Rights Commissions, Hypocrisy, Stephen Boissoin, Tyranny
Posted in Canada, Media and Journalism | 1 Comment »