Human Rights Commission Tag

28 Oct 2008 Action Item from No Apologies – Urge Your MP to Repeal Section 13 of the Human Rights Code

Play this video (below) to hear Gerald Chipeur, the lawyer representing Alberta Pastor Stephen Boissoin, and Tristan Emmanuel from the ECP Centre, calling all Canadians to use this opportunity to repeal Section 13 of the Human Rights Code. This should apply provincially as well, as many of the provincial human rights codes contain provisions very similar to the federal one. The provincial codes need to be changed as well so it is a good idea to also contact your MLA or MPP to urge them to do the same thing (note that the section of the provincial code will have a different name or heading than Section 13). Make it clear to your elected representative that this should be the very minimum that gets done. Some are urging that the commissions be removed all-together as they no longer serve a useful function in society.
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17 Oct 2008 Abbotsford board faces human rights complaint over dropped course

ARPA Note: Read some of the comments posted online below the CBC article (follow the link below) to get a wake-up call to the shameful reality of our secular country. Logic and reason mean little because our society is so blinded by its own folly - we need to pray.  From CBC.ca: The Abbotsford School Board could find itself before a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal if it continues to refuse to offer the high school elective course Social Justice 12. Murray and Peter Corren filed a human rights complaint...

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10 Oct 2008 Maclean’s wins ‘hate speech’ human rights challenge in B.C.

Joseph Brean, National Post - October 10, 2008 The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal ruled today that a controversial article about Islam in Maclean's magazine did not violate the province's hate speech law. In acquitting the magazine, the Tribunal ruled that the article, an excerpt from Mark Steyn's book America Alone in which he describes the demographic and ideological dangers posed by a growing Muslim population in the West, was not likely to expose Muslims to hatred or contempt. [Keep...

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29 Sep 2008 Politicians, not courts, at fault for assault on free speech

John Carpay, Calgary Herald -  September 27, 2008Should Bill Whatcott be required to pay $17,500 to four individuals who were offended by the flyers he distributed? In 2001 and 2002, Whatcott distributed flyers articulating his opposition to teaching homosexuality in Saskatoon's public schools. In making his case that this would harm children, he said "Sodomites" were trying to spread their "filth" and "perversion." The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal must rule on whether the contents of Whatcott's flyers are "extreme" enough to justify this $17,500 human rights tribunal ruling. The court's...

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09 Sep 2008 Dion pledges to return, bolster axed court-challenges program

ARPA Note> This is the program that was used to successfully challenge the definition of marriage and advance the homosexual political cause.CBC News Online: Sept 9, 2008Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion pledged Tuesday to restore funding for the federal court-challenges program if elected prime minister, and to double it, saying its cancellation by the Conservatives was "damaging the fabric of our society." The program set aside $3 million a year to pay the legal fees of groups that wanted to challenge government decisions that affected their rights as guaranteed by...

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02 Sep 2008 Must Read: A handmaid’s tale

Will Ontario doctors be forced to ignore personal beliefs just to please a pompous human rights commission?Lorne Gunter, National Post: Tuesday, September 02, 2008The sheer arrogance of human rights commissions will be their downfall: their conviction that they have a superior understanding of rights compared to anyone else and that once they have pronounced how rights shall be interpreted, the rest of us should fall in lockstep with smiles on our faces and cheery tunes on our tongues, content that...

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27 Aug 2008 Do We Want it Both Ways?

An ARPA Canada Thought Provoker In his editorial "Religious Free-Speechers Try to Have it Both Ways" that appeared recently in the Calgary Herald, Rob Breakenridge tries to argue that conservative Christians are being inconsistent in our political action. On the one hand, we decry human rights commission for clamping down on free speech in cases like that of Pastor Boissoin or Ezra Levant. But on the other hand we urge restrictions on media that we find morally offensive, such as the CRTC's recent approval of a "Canadian" pornographic channel. Is Breakenridge right? Are we all for liberty for ourselves but OK with restrictions when it comes to others? If we believe that our political action flows from our Biblical wordview, we better be consistent. Christian author and long-time political activist Tim Bloedow has prepared this response to Breakenridge's article:
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22 Aug 2008 Levant Target of Latest Human Rights Complaint By Homosexual Activist

By Pete Vere EDMONTON, August 21, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Homosexual activist Rob Wells has filed a human rights complaint against Calgary lawyer and publisher Ezra Levant. Wells filed the complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) on June 26, accusing Levant of exposing homosexuals to hatred on the Internet after Levant republished a 2002 letter by Pastor Stephen Boissoin to the Red Deer Advocate. The letter was critical of homosexual activists promoting same-sex marriage and a homosexualist agenda in the public school system.
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15 Aug 2008 Action Needed to Respond to Ontario College of Physicians

Update> Deadline extended until Sept 12! Thank you to those who encouraged a deadline extension. For more information, go to the Canadian Physicians for Life Website. ARPA Canada has learned just this afternoon that today is the deadline for responses to a controversial policy from the Ontario College of Physicians. This policy would impose a duty on Ontario's physicians to abide by the Ontario Human Rights Commission and the Ontario Human Rights Code. The College drafted this new policy as a result of changes to the Human Rights Tribunal which they expect will increase the number of complaints to the Tribunal from 150 to 3,000 per year.
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