Human rights
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Written on 14 May, 2013 at 10:58 in
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Interim Staff Representatives of pro-life non-governmental organizations at the United Nations commission on women. Front row: Jean Head of Manhattan Right to Life ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2013 at 9:10 in
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Theresa Yoshioka Arün Smith favours diversity, just not diversity of opinion. So in early February he removed the free-speech wall at Carleton University – stole the paper and destroyed the frame – then, on Facebook, rationalized his violent direct action. In his incoherent philosophy, “liberty requires liberation, and this liberation is prevented by providing space for either more platitudes, or for the expression of hate.” He vowed to repeat his crime should the free-speech wall be restored.
Carleton’s stifling cultural climate, known to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2013 at 7:22 in
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Interim Staff In a 149-137 vote, C-279, a private member’s bill that would add amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and hate crimes law by adding gender identity and gender expression to the specially protected classes of people, passed Parliament on March 20 and will now move to the Senate. In 2011, a previous version of the bill passed the House but died in the Senate when the federal election was called.
All NDP, Liberals, Bloc Quebecois members, and Green Party MP Elizabeth ... (Continue reading)
Written on 8 Apr, 2013 at 13:17 in
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Rory Leishman National Affairs Rory Leishman
With the unanimous ruling in the case of Bill Whatcott on Wednesday, the Supreme Court of Canada has stepped up its attack on freedom of speech and freedom of religion as never before. For faithful Christians, the implications are clear: Like Whatcott, they, too, could end up in jail as a prisoner of conscience for upholding the plain teachings of Sacred Scripture on the sinfulness of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 Apr, 2013 at 13:17 in
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Paul Tuns Supreme Court ruled against Bill Whatcott.
The long legal odyssey of William Whatcott that began with the distribution of four flyers on homosexuality in 2001 and 2002, ended in the Supreme Court on Feb. 27, with the Supreme Court handing a mixed result for advocates of freedom of speech.
After Whatcott distributed his flyers more than a decade, four individuals filed hate speech complaints against him with the Saskatchewan Human ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jul, 2012 at 7:32 in
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Interim Staff One small step to restoring our democratic rights
The House of Commons passed Brian Storseth’s private member’s bill C-304 repealing Section 13 of the Canada Human Rights Act that proscribes so-called hate speech.
C-304, An Act to Amend the Human Rights Act, was introduced by Storseth last October and passed third reading June 6 on a 153-136 near party-line vote. All members of the opposition except one voted against Storseth’s bill while every member of the Conservative Party ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Apr, 2012 at 16:10 in
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When Canada de-criminalized abortion in 1969, technology did not exist to let the world see inside the womb. Thanks to modern microscopic imaging and video technology, we can now see the newly created human being inside the
Day 1 – Fertilization
The life of each individual member of a species begins at conception/fertilization. That is when a genetically new and genetically complete individual first comes into existence. The new ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Mar, 2012 at 5:38 in
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Patrick Craine The campaign to scrap Canada’s ‘hate speech’ clause moved one step closer to victory Feb. 15 as the House of Commons voted 158-131 to send it to committee. Of those MPs who voted, the bill was unanimously supported by the majority Conservative government and opposed by all opposition members, except Newfoundland MP Scott Simms (Liberal, Bonavista-Gander-Grand Falls-Windsor).
After consideration by the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, Bill C-304 will need to pass a third vote in the House of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jan, 2012 at 10:19 in
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Brian Storseth Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt of MP Brian Storseth’s (CPC, Westlock-St.Paul) speech Nov. 22 in support of C-304, his private member’s bill to remove hate provisions from the Canada Human Rights Act.
It is through freedom of speech and expression that we change governments here in Canada, not through riots and revolts. This is one of the unique factors that sets us apart from many countries in the world…
Layer by layer, brick by brick, our country has grown and successfully ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Dec, 2011 at 7:28 in
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Paul Tuns Many in the media rallied around the right for Bill Whatcott to speak freely even if they disagreed vehemently with his message, part of what the National Post’s Chris Selley called “the pleasantly broad consensus that the law shouldn’t be limiting Canadians’ right to free speech, however abhorrent.” With friends and allies like Selley …
But Selley was not unique. Just as columnists and editorialists defended Whatcott’s free speech rights, they condemned his “hate speech” and “anti-gay” activities. Writing in the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Mar, 2011 at 7:10 in
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Paul Tuns
Bill C-389, the so-called bathroom bill that would add “gender identity” and gender expression” to Canada’s human rights and hate crimes laws, looks to be stalled in the Senate. As of press time, there was no sponsor to permit the process to consider the bill to move forward.
The homosexualist newspaper Xtra! Reports that the bill’s House sponsor, Bill Siskay (NDP, Burnaby-Douglas) has been privately criticized for not finding a Senate sponsor. When ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Feb, 2011 at 18:18 in
Equal Rights, Human rights, Society & Culture | Author:
Pauline Kosalka
On Jan. 10, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal declared in the Marriage Act Reference that legislation proposed by the provincial government allowing individual marriage commissioners to refuse marrying homosexual couples if it violated their conscience is unconstitutional. The court rejected two proposed draft bills: one allowing commissioners to refuse to perform same-sex “marriages” and the other granting this exemption only to those commissioners who already held the job when the federal government legalized same-sex “marriage” in November 2004. According to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Nov, 2010 at 13:12 in
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Patrick B. Craine Special to The Interim An Oct. 13 Toronto Star report claiming the Canadian government is set to add strippers and escorts to its national job bank is “completely and utterly false,” says a spokesman for the government.
The Star cited an Oct. 1 ‘draft memo’ from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada that said occupations such as exotic dancer, nude dancer, striptease dancer, and escort, among others, would “be acceptable for posting on Job Bank,” a service of Human Resources Development Canada.
The piece, written by ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Aug, 2010 at 6:40 in
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Pauline Kosalka A new report by Human Rights Watch accuses several nations of failing to provide access to adequate reproductive health care, especially abortion. The report, ‘Unaccountable: Addressing Reproductive Health Care Gaps,” uses Human Rights Watch’s interviews with so-called victims to make recommendations to governments and international health organizations.
According to Human Rights Watch, “logistical, cultural, and financial barriers to services and information, inadequate care, discrimination, and abusive health providers block the way to reproductive health.” Alongside legitimate problems such as inadequate grievance ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Jul, 2010 at 6:50 in
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Patrick B. Craine An abortionist at Henry Morgentaler’s Ottawa abortuary has agreed to restrict his practice following allegations that he failed to maintain an adequate standard of care.
Dr. Krzysztof J. Fabisiak was scheduled to appear June 17 before the disciplinary committee of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons owing to allegations against him from 25 patients. His record, publicly available on the College website, says that he was accused of having “failed to maintain the standard of practice of the profession and is ... (Continue reading)
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