Down With Everybody

Faisal Joseph in The Jurist:

The media cannot shy away from its contributory role in the discrimination of Muslims any longer.

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In principle, we could encourage more and better speech to counter the effects of prejudicial and hateful speech. In practice, a review of major Canadian publications indicates that the “more and better speech” is disturbingly scarce. When it comes to Muslims, right-wing journalists across the country have plenty to say. But who is providing the “more and better speech” to mitigate their toxic effects? The “more and better speech” formula fails marginalized minorities - a lesson that Canadian Muslims have painfully learned.

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But who is providing the “more and better speech” to mitigate their toxic effects?

Hack. You are. The Jurist just published the damn thing on their website. Sure, it’s only American, but someday you’ll make the big time in Canada.

TVO? Your cash. Human rights complaints? Your cash. An opportunity to hear both sides of an issue in a true debate? Worthless.

We’re guessing Steyn and the chickens won’t be sharing the same green room.

Latest proposal from TVO is for me to come on first for 15 minutes one-on-one with Steve Paikin to discuss “the larger ideas”, followed by the Sock Puppet Three on their own for 20 minutes to piss all over me, followed by me alone for a ten-minute rebuttal.

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Some OHRC bureaucrat actually gets paid to sit around and make this stuff up. By the way, nice touch with the boldface on the word “code.” Authoritative.

This is their Housing and Family Status “Fact Sheet.”

Families with children can face a range of negative and discriminatory attitudes and stereotypes. Some landlords prefer not to rent to families with children because they believe that children are noisy, disruptive, and will damage the property. Female-headed lone parent families are the subject of negative stereotypes, particularly if they are Aboriginal, racialized, young, or in receipt of social assistance. Landlords may directly refuse applications because of the presence of children, or may use euphemisms to discourage or deny applications from families with children, such as that the building is “a quiet building”, “not soundproof”, or “adult lifestyle”. Such policies and practices violate the Code.

Families with young children may also face harassment and eviction because of the normal noise associated with children. It is natural that children run, play, and cry, and while parents are obliged to take steps in accordance with good parenting practices to manage the noise made by their children and to be good neighbours, it should be recognized that children naturally make some noise, and such noise should not be cause for harassment or loss of housing. Landlords should take steps to ensure that families with children are not harassed by neighbours because of the normal noise associated with children, just as they would with regard to harassment based on other Code grounds.

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[May 6, 2008] The Ontario Human Rights Commission today announced that thirty-one transit providers have committed to begin announcing all stops by this fall. This result was obtained after the Commission launched an inquiry into Transit Stop Announcements in the fall of 2007 to help riders with disabilities.

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In 2007, the Commission noted both progress and setbacks relating to accessibility in transit for persons with disabilities. In July 2007, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario released an important decision, Lepofsky v. Toronto Transit Commission, requiring the TTC to begin announcing all stops on buses and streetcars that summer.

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Doesn’t anybody just learn how to use a compass anymore?

Environment, Human Rights and Other Global Issues Tackled at Downsview Park

TORONTO, May 6 /CNW/ - Teens and young adults will be learning about the world’s most urgent needs at the Global Development Village this week. WHO: Presented by Scouts Canada and The Institute Without Boundaries at George Brown College. Approximately 34 other organizations attending, including UNICEF, Canadian Red Cross, Journalists for Human Rights, World Vision Canada and Food Share.

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Our mistake. It’s been going on for a while, courtesy of the Canadian taxpayer:

[Scouts Canada Website] OTTAWA, March 26, 2004 - Scouts Canada today announced that it has developed a new Climate Change Education Action Program (CCEAP) for its members. Over 100,000 Canadian youth will have the opportunity to actively contribute to reducing greenhouse gasses – a cause of climate change.

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The CCEAP is supported by funding from the Government of Canada’s Climate Change Action Fund. 

Strange. Movie stars have been telling us for years that Hitler is in the White House. Now he’s in Burma? Wish they’d make up their minds.

NEW YORK: “Hitler is alive in Burma” reads the words scrawled on a cardboard sign, held aloft by Ellen Page, the Juno star, in a 90-second human-rights public awareness message that has begun appearing on video-sharing websites.

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