Archive for the ‘Equality’ Category
« Older Entries | Newer Entries »
The right to offend
TheGlobeandMail.com – opinion/editorial – The right to offend
June 29, 2008
Offence won a valuable victory last week. The Canadian Human Rights Commission rightly concluded that certain words “obviously calculated to excite and even offend certain readers” were not hate speech.
Posted in Equality Debates | No Comments »
Finally, good news on ‘human rights’
TheNationalPost.com – opinion/editorial – Finally, good news on ‘human rights’
Published: Saturday, June 28, 2008
Posted in Equality Debates | No Comments »
Our part-time home and native land
TheGlobeandMail.com – opinion – Our part-time home and native land
June 28, 2008. MICHAEL VALPY
The dawn of our country’s 141st birthday breaks over a Canada astonishingly turned outward to the world in ways our first prime minister, John A. Macdonald, would never have imagined — or, indeed, if he had, would have suspected himself too deeply immersed in his tipple.
Posted in Equality Debates, Inclusion Debates | No Comments »
The next residential schools chapter: No truth, no reconciliation
TheGlobeandMail.com – opinion – The next residential schools chapter: No truth, no reconciliation
June 27, 2008. JIM MILLER, Canada Research Chair in Native-Newcomer Relations at the University of Saskatchewan
The hopes of many Canadians are riding on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that began operations on June 1.
Posted in Child & Family Debates, Equality Debates, Inclusion Debates | No Comments »
Too wide a net for hate
TheGlobeandMail.ca – opinion/editorial – Too wide a net for hate
June 23, 2008
Hate is a subject that the Canadian Human Rights Commission wisely wishes to think about. A law professor at the University of Windsor, Richard Moon, will write a wide-ranging report for the CHRC, to come out in October, on “the most appropriate mechanisms for addressing hate messages.”
Posted in Equality Debates, Inclusion Debates | No Comments »
Let ombudsman investigate complaints about hospitals
TheStar.com – comment – Let ombudsman investigate complaints about hospitals: Office brings special investigative skills to complex, systemic issues faced by health sector
June 17, 2008. André Marin
Ever had a beef about a hospital or a long-term care facility? Who hasn’t?
Whether you feel you were badly treated at a hospital, or know someone who died of a hospital-acquired infection, or have a relative living in unspeakable conditions in a long-term care home, no doubt you’ve asked yourself at some point: Who holds these places accountable?
Posted in Equality Debates, Health Debates | No Comments »
A belated but necessary apology
TheStar.com – comment – A belated but necessary apology
June 17, 2008. John Croutch, Community Editorial Board
I am writing this for all those Canadians who may question why the federal government needed to apologize to aboriginal peoples for crimes that many might consider to be no more than a regrettable chapter in a checkered Canadian past.
In reading this, you will notice that I choose my words carefully. I do so because I, like many aboriginal people, have become accustomed to being told that aboriginals do not hold a patent on suffering.
Posted in Child & Family Debates, Equality Debates, Inclusion Debates | No Comments »
Apology brings ‘hope and comfort’
TheStar.com – Canada – Apology brings ‘hope and comfort’: Oldest victim of schools is `very happy’ to witness speech
June 12, 2008. Joanna Smith, Ottawa Bureau
Ottawa–It was the end of a long day for Marguerite Wabano, but she was still able to smile widely as she raised her glass to the apology she had waited nearly a lifetime for.
“This is my offering of chalice,” Wabano said in Swampy Cree, translated by her niece Mary Lou Iahtail at a reception on Parliament Hill yesterday evening.
Her remark prompted a burst of adoring laughter from her loved ones, but she was clearly tired.
Posted in Equality Debates, Inclusion Debates | No Comments »
Credit to Harper for this apology
TheStar.com – comment/editorial – Credit to Harper for this apology
June 12, 2008 .
Striking an unusual (for him) non-partisan chord, Prime Minister Stephen Harper yesterday gave credit to NDP Leader Jack Layton for pressing for an apology for the residential school system that tore native children from their parents and sought to assimilate them.
Posted in Equality Debates | No Comments »
Recent Comments