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Vancouver Sun Columnist: Who Are We To Lecture China, Since We’re Evil, Too?

[Vancouver Sun] Canadians who have poked the dragon in the eye by trying to use the Olympic games as a platform to protest China’s treatment of Tibet or its dismal human rights record have discovered a hard truth about totalitarian regimes R

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The Human Right To Extort Your Doctor

[National Post] If the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) gets its way, Ontario’s doctors will soon be stripped of their right to follow their moral convictions or religious beliefs when treating patients. In other words, doctors

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Washed Up Chretien: Harper Should Have Been More Like Me And Left His Balls In The John

[Globe and Mail] Prime Minister Stephen Harper has risked relations with China by failing to attend the Olympic Games and going overboard in honouring Tibet’s Dalai Lama, former prime minister Jean Chrétien said yesterday. Speaking to a Canadi

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Like, Yeah! Sorority’s Been Advancing Human Rights For 100 Years

[Market Watch] Alpha Kappa Alpha’s international president Barbara A. McKinzie will articulate the Sorority’s 100-year record of advancing human rights when she journeys to Paris from September 3-5 to join other Non-Governmental Organizat

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Liberal Aussie Politician Laments Canada’s Freaky Star Chambers

More international bad press for Canadian human rights commissions. [The Australian] All this is frighteningly reminiscent of the situation in Canada, where official agencies of the state prosecute citizens for the thought-crime of political incorrec

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Is That A Bench, Or A Soap Box?

[Globe and Mail] Supreme Court of Canada Judge Ian Binnie issued a call Tuesday for Canadian multi-national corporations to pay more attention to human rights abuses in Third World countries where they operate. Cataloging a long list of cases where d

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George Clooney To Make Film About Gitmo Prisoner

[AlterNet] He boasts of being Barack Obama’s “BlackBerry buddy”, never mind a UN Commissioner for Peace and a driving force behind the Save Darfur campaign. In the latest incarnation of his irrepressible political instincts, the H

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Guess Everything’s Going Well In Myanmar

Myanmar? What’s Myanmar? Hell with it, let’s slam the UK. [Associated Press] The U.N. Human Rights Committee is criticizing Britain over its tough counterterrorism laws, legislation that limits free speech and the use of an Indian Ocean t

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Vancouver Homelessness = Newfoundland’s Problem

Note to Vancouver: When you’re done building the luge run and ski jumps for your wonderful Olympic Games, maybe you should help the homeless living in your own city. [The Canadian] Many British Columbians who have either seen or ventured in the

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Human Resources Advice On Human Rights: Be Careful

[HR Infodesk] According to human rights legislation in each jurisdiction, the questions an employer asks at an employment interview must be related to the candidate’s qualifications and ability to perform the essential duties of the job. Questi

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University of Windsor Prof: Russia/Georgia Is Like USA/Iraq

[The Jurist] And, as Georgia is a party to the International Criminal Court, there is a territorial link to the court’s jurisdiction which may ultimately result in indictments against individuals. Like Iraq in 2003, this conflict represents a blow

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Nope. No Media Bias Around Here

No booze? Count us out. Ottawa Start: Book Launch: Dark Days: The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of Fighting Terror by Kerry Pither Wednesday, AUGUST 27 @ 7:00 PM Alcohol-free Reception and Signing @ 6:00 PM Library and Archives Audit

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Women File Human Rights Complaints Over Breastfeeding In BC, Ontario

[Canwest] A woman who organized a “nurse-in” to protest at a Vancouver store filed a complaint to the BC Human Rights Tribunal on Thursday, the second such complaint in Canada in a week. … “This is actually a case of discrimin

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Human Rights Commission Striking It Rich In Vegas

[Chicago Tribune] In a decision that could alter the way businesses on the Las Vegas Strip operate, the state’s civil rights panel has found that a health club discriminated against men by charging them more for membership than they charged wom

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Putz Thinks Everyone Else Is An Idiot, Too

[Calgary Herald] The absolutist argument that everybody should be able to say anything they please about anyone at all falls flat. The absolutists counter talk of responsible use by grumbling about how other people’s hurt feelings result in per

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Nobody Ever Does

A lawyer complains in Toronto, and the OHRC tells the entire province’s transport system to change. Oh, and to spend your money. Emphasis ours. [Intelligencer] City bus drivers have raised health and safety concerns over calling out bus stops,

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Equality And Human Rights Commissions Posts Job Offer

Wanted: one traitor to change their country according to UN policy. Good benefits, flexible hours, 30 vacation days per year. [European Voice] This is an opportunity to help influence the forthcoming European equality directive on goods and service

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Ontario Human Rights Commission Drafts New Education Platform

A smooth move from the OHRC, as they make an investment for complaints well into the future. [CNW] Kindergarten to grade 8 students in Ontario’s elementary public schools soon will be learning how ‘racism hurts’ and what they can do

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Chinese Paper Turns The Tables

[Globe and Mail] China was under intense scrutiny ahead of its Summer Olympics, and the host country’s media decided on Tuesday it was time to turn the tables. Moments after announcing a new Winter Olympics press centre for Vancouver, B.C. Prem

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Medication Next On The List Of Human Rights?

[CNW] “With $741 million in new money available to create a comprehensive prevention, treatment and care program for diabetes, you cannot tell me there is no money for medicines that are proved to prevent damage and disability in inflammatory a

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“Average Canadians” Must Not Be Paying Attention In Class

[The Walrus] It’s been an unusually invigorating year for legal reform activists. After more than a decade of neglect, what they like to call the “silent crisis” — the increasing inaccessibility of the justice system to average Canadians —

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Steyn Can Take It, But HRCs Are Sacred

[Media Monitors, Greg Felton] The human rights case against Maclean’s magazine, discussed in my last column, has significance beyond the anti-Muslim defamation that writer Mark Steyn is charged with committing. Of much greater importance is the sm

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Jonas: Human Rights Officials Kangeroos, Pussies

[National Post] Brainy little kangaroos, our homegrown marsupials. The Bathurst Island kind have nothing on them. Our joeys leaped out of the way with Olympic alacrity, once they heard the thunder rolling down the track. … Here pussy, pussy,

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Sorry. Olympics Stole Your Thunder

Khadr? Who’s that? [London Free Press] Lawyers for Omar Khadr filed suit yesterday in an effort to compel Prime Minister Stephen Harper to demand the Canadian citizen be repatriated from Guantanamo Bay, where he is due to stand trial for “

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Globe and Mail To HRCs: Repeal Thyself

Funny. All this time we thought elected officials wrote the law. Oops. From the Daddy, I Took The Car Without Permission, Please Ground Me file: [Globe and Mail] In the end, though, human-rights commissions should advise their respective legislatures

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All Right, So They’re Oppressive. Now On With The Fun Stuff

Another blogger checks his morality at the door to enjoy a couple of weeks of swimming and trampoline. [Face Off] In the end, the Chinese will do as they choose. They are too powerful to be diverted. Perhaps, as Pound and the IOC fondly hope, the daz

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Celebrate Diversity! (Except For You, Ugly)

Beauty’s in the eye of the whip holder. [Toronto Sun] Elizabeth Abbott, a celibacy history research associate at University of Toronto, describes Toronto as a “formerly repressed city” where the 1970s finally happened and many immig

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The Core Of Everything

[Globe and Mail] “It is clear that we have moved on from the fruitless debate between prevention and treatment that has plagued us in the past,” said Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria,

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Calgary Herald: No Praise For Alberta Human Rights Commission

[Calgary Herald] The decision by the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission not to proceed with the 900-day-old complaint against the now defunct Western Standard magazine was the proper decision. But that is about the only praise the commis

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Guess He Didn’t Receive The Memo On Olympic Ass Kissing

[Toronto Star] BEIJING — Having publicly promised that he would not “politicize” the Olympic Games, President George W. Bush caught Chinese officials off guard here today, using his opening of a new U.S. embassy to drive home the import

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Hey, Baby, Wanna Go For A Drink After Class? Hop On The Handlebars

[USA Today] High schools and colleges are steering students away from cars to save money on gas, save the environment and promote physical fitness. This fall, Ripon College in Ripon, Wis., is offering freshmen free mountain bikes, helmets and locks

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Montreal Muslim Woman Files Human Rights Complaint Against YMCA

Long story short: “Woman converts to Islam. Begins wearing hijab at work. YMCA seeks accomodation, and asks her to wear a ‘burkini.’ Woman files a complaint with the Human Rights commission.” Say that again without laughing. [

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Aussie Attorney-General Asks UN To Monitor Human Rights…In Australia

More from the Who’s In Charge Around Here? file. [HeraldSun] ATTORNEY-GENERAL Robert McClelland said Australia will end the “hypocrisy” of lecturing its neighbours on human rights without always setting a good example of its own.

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Alberta Human Rights Commission: Let’s All Pretend This Never Happened

CHRC punted on Steyn. OHRC punted on Steyn. AHRC now punts on Levant. BCHRT…you’re up! Come on, chickenshits. You nailed McDonald’s for handwashing, surely you can bust Steyn for a hate crime. Or will you punt, too? [CBC] The Albert

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Waterloo Record: PM Errs In Snubbing Totalitarian Murderers

[Waterloo Record] But not every invited dignitary will be present. And among the most conspicuous of the absent will be Canada’s own Prime Minister Stephen Harper. In staying away, Harper erred. He should be in Beijing. Instead, his perplexing

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Welsh Flag Banned From Olympic Games

[Daily Post] THE Welsh flag has been banned from official venues at the Beijing Olympics in a crackdown by Chinese authorities. Supporters and competitors travelling to the Games face a strict ban on waving the Ddraig Goch in celebration. Only the fl

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Amnesty Int’l: Granting China The Olympics Has Made Things Worse

Oh, well. At least the long jump and beach volleyball will be fun. [Guardian] Whatever the IOC’s hopes, in some instances preparations for the Olympics had made things worse, Amnesty said, particularly in the use of so-called “re-educatio

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European Court Of Human Rights To UK: Obey Your Master

From the Who’s In Charge Around Here? file. [Herald Tribune] Britain’s government on Tuesday accepted an order by the European Court of Human Rights to delay the extradition of a radical Muslim preacher accused of helping to set up a terr

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We Get It, We Get It! Like The “95 Theses” Thing, Right?

A cute one from some buttheads at Peace, Earth, and Justice News. Their “95 Articles Of Condemnation” for Canada’s Prime Minister. A highlight: 67) Canada has failed to incorporate provisions from the International Covenant of Socia

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Anningson: What If…?

[Times and Transcript] So what if none of us ever got to say what we thought was important? What if when I tried to write about vegetarianism the meat lobby had me shut down. What if the coffee federation silenced me when I said we should pay more fo

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Olympics Official: We’re Here For A Good Time, Not A Long Time

[MSN] Olympic athletes should not make any political protest while on the winner’s podium or in the athletes’ village, according to top Games official Kevan Gosper. “We would seek that all athletes make no effort to demonstrate or u

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Louise Arbour, Pride Of Canada

[UN Watch] “Indeed, the report’s most disturbing findings,” said Neuer, “are that in the period examined, Arbour published no statements at all for victims in 153 countries—places where human rights range from poor to appalling,

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Defamation Of Religion Thought Crime Gains Steam At UN

[Wall Street Journal Blog] Is liability for “defamation of religion” catching on? The United Nations hopes so, reports Maclean’s. (HT: Volokh Conspiracy) According to Maclean’s, Pakistan brought the first “defamation of religions” resolu

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Another Racist Conference On The Horizon?

[Jerusalem Post] Is the United Nations’ follow-up to the racist 2001 Durban World Conference Against Racism headed for the same fate? Perhaps. In response to the newly released UN blueprint for next April’s Durban II in Geneva, EU members

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If It’s A Failure, It’s A Pretty Popular One

From the Serve Me Some More Anti-American Kool-Aid file. [Palestine Chronicle] It’s undeniable that the American social model (the vaunted “American Way of Life”) is a paradox in the world. All you have to do is look around at other nations and

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Not “Perceived,” Butthead. It Would Be A Partisan Witch Hunt.

[Salon] On the campaign trail in April, Barack Obama was asked whether, if elected, he would prosecute Bush administration officials for establishing torture as American policy. The candidate demurred. ”If crimes have been committed, they shou

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Oh. You Mean The First Legal System Still Investigates Hate Crimes?

[Winnipeg Free Press] City police are investigating the city’s latest hate crime after eight swastikas and the phrase “kill the Jews” was scrawled in black ink on a billboard for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Winnipeg Police

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Supreme Court: Police Discriminated Against Shoplifter By Not Giving Her A Job

[Ottawa Citizen] A woman who was convicted of shoplifting and later rejected from becoming a police officer because of her past won her case at the Supreme Court of Canada yesterday. In a 6-2 decision, the court ruled the woman’s rights were vi

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Oh, Happy Day

Pass the Kool-Aid and keep the business booming, baby. [Expositor, Letter to the Editor] Of course, actions speak louder than mere words, and I’m proud that our Conservative government has made significant progress in enhancing the well-being o

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Canadian Ex-Pat: Thank God I’m Back In Australia

More international bad press for Canadian human rights commissions. [The Australian] You see, these mickey-mouse pseudo-judges have now moved on to prosecuting a fellow named Guy Earle, a stand-up comedian. Apparently during the course of his act he

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