Human Rights Commission Tag

22 Feb 2011 Shahbaz Bhatti: Blasphemy, Human Rights Commissions and Religious Freedom

ARPA Note: The Activate CFPL blog, where this article came from, is well worth bookmarking. By Don Hutchinson, Activate CFPL, Feb 16, 2011: A little over a week ago, I met with a marked man. Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan's Minister for Minorities, is the first Christian invited into Pakistan’s cabinet – and remaining after last week’s cabinet shuffle reduced its size from 60 to 22 ministers. His responsibilities place him near the top of the list for those publicly targeted for assassination in his home country...

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04 Feb 2011 Workplace Squabble Can Cost You Your House

Many of those who support reforms to the human rights system are particularly troubled by Section 13 of the federal act, and similar provisions in provincial human rights codes. This section prohibits the publication of discriminatory speech, which is rightly viewed as a severe and unwarranted infringement on our freedom of expression and the freedom of the press.
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28 Jan 2011 Ontario party: Human rights commission moving to ‘take over’ education

ARPA Note: Learn more about what you can do in response to the HRC's at our Stand Up for Freedom campaign site. TORONTO, Ontario, January 27, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The controversial Ontario Human Rights Commission has signaled their “takeover” of the province’s education sector, a development that could threaten private schools and homeschoolers, said the Family Coalition Party of Ontario (FCP) today. “If the OHRC is given control over the thoughts of our children, the next target will be private schools and parents who home...

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06 Jan 2011 Canadian Human Rights Tribunal Probed for Toxic Work Environment

By Kathryn May, Postmedia News January 5, 2011 : The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal is facing an outpouring of anger from workers who complain of a toxic workplace that is undermining the quasi-judicial agency's ability to do its job. More than half of the 25-member staff, including middle and senior level managers, have left, taken sick leave or retired over the past year.
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20 Dec 2010 Human rights agency’s goal to lead Canada

Saskatoon StarPhoneix, Dec 16 2010 : Following is the viewpoint of Arnot, chief commissioner of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission. Professor Ken Norman recently observed that the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission is "marching to a different drum" (SP, Dec.3). He is absolutely correct. The commission has proposed innovative changes to the Human Rights Code designed to give it the tools to provide the best service to Saskatchewan citizens.
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26 Nov 2010 O’NEILL: Send rights fights to the court system

Terry O'Neill, Tri-City News, Nov 26 2010 -  Human rights tribunals — should they stay or should they go? You don’t have to look into the murky realm of science fiction to find a fantasy parallel world existing alongside the real-life world. Indeed, you only have to look into the domain of Canadian human-rights tribunals to find a prime example of a bizarre alternate realty existing alongside the more rational, real legal system.  And that’s why I oppose a new B.C.-led initiative to supposedly “strengthen” federal human-rights law.
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