Articles Tagged ‘Human Rights Commissions’
Written on 2 Sep, 2017 at 10:25 in
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Last month CBS reported on the supposed success Iceland had in eliminating Down syndrome yet it was immediately obvious that the Nordic country had done no such thing. Rather, through nudging expectant mothers toward genetic testing and a cultural predisposition to abort preborn babies with the chromosomal disorder, Iceland had succeeded not in eliminating Down syndrome but rather people with Down syndrome. These are quite different things. One would be a medical miracle, the other, quite frankly, is eugenics.
Iceland is ... (Continue reading)
Bill C-16 seeks to amend “the Canadian Human Rights Act to add gender identity and gender expression to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination” and to amend the Criminal Code so that gender identity and gender expression are listed under the definition of “identifiable group” for protection against hate propaganda and are listed as aggravating circumstances for hate crimes. It passed its third reading in the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Mar, 2017 at 9:36 in
Announcements, Features, Politics, Society & Culture | Author:
Paul Tuns Brad Trost
On Feb. 1, a private member’s bill, C-309, “An Act to establish Gender Equality Week,” passed second reading in a 287-1 vote. Conservative MP and leadership candidate Brad Trost (Saskatoon-University) cast the lone against Liberal MP Sven Spengemann’s (Mississauga—Lakeshore) C-309.
The bill’s preamble says Parliament “wishes to increase awareness of the significant and substantive contributions that Canadian women have made and continue to make to the growth, development, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 6 Oct, 2016 at 14:27 in
Announcements, Features, Politics, Pro-Life | Author:
Interim Staff The Christian Heritage Party has announced it will take the city of Hamilton to court after the municipality’s transit system removed three ads from bus shelters that challenged the city’s policy allowing self-identifying transgender men to use women’s washrooms and change rooms.
The CHP raised $50,000 in one week when it appealed to supporters to back their legal challenge. On Sept. 21, party president Peter Vogel told The Interim the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Sep, 2016 at 7:19 in
Abortion Law, Human Rights Commissions | Author:
James Schadenberg When the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal ruled on July 18th that Mount Sinai Hospital was not discriminating when it refused to abort one of a patient’s two healthy preborn twins, the patient decided to appeal the ruling.
The patient, a 45-year-old woman who is referred to in the case as C.V, had filed a human rights complaint to the OHRT on May 2015 claiming that she had been discriminated against on the basis of sex and family status.
C.V. had underwent in-vitro ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Aug, 2015 at 13:02 in
Human rights, Religion, Society & Culture | Author:
Pauline Kosalka An Ontario court has sided with the province’s lawyers in preventing graduates from Trinity Western University from practicing law in Ontario. Last year, in a 28-21 vote, the Law Society of Upper Canada denied accreditation to the TWU’s new law school scheduled to open next year. TWU then appealed to Ontario’s Divisional Court, which heard arguments for the case (Trinity Western University v. Law Society of Upper Canada) last June.
Law societies across Canada have tried to bar graduates from TWU, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Feb, 2015 at 14:00 in
Unborn Victims Act | Author:
Pauline Kosalka The murder of a 31-year-old pregnant woman in Windsor, Ontario is leading some people to question why Canada’s laws don’t defend unborn victims of crime. Cassandra Kaake’s body was found by firefighters on Dec. 11 in a house on Benjamin Avenue in the southwestern Ontario city during a call to extinguish a fire. Kaake was seven months pregnant. The cause of her death was blood loss due to severe trauma.
In a press conference on Dec. 12, Staff Sgt. Mark Denonville ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 May, 2014 at 16:54 in
Human rights, Society & Culture | Author:
Two members of the Campaign Life Coalition delegation at the Cairo +20 commission at the United Nations, Matt Wojciechowski (centre) and Tanya Allen (right), talk to delegates from two Latin American countries during the proceedings.
The ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 May, 2013 at 13:25 in
Announcements, Features, Human Rights Commissions | Author:
Analysis Dan Di Rocco Fr. Raymond Gravel
A legal torpedo was launched against online news service LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) on Dec. 21, 2010, following a long period of ongoing friction between Fr. Raymond Gravel (a Catholic priest and one-time Bloc Québecois MP) and LSN. The priest sued LSN, five of its journalists and managers, plus Campagne Québec-Vie (CQV) and its former director, Luc Gagnon. According to the complainant, “the statements of the defendants ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2013 at 7:22 in
Human rights, Politics | Author:
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 19 Mar, 2013 at 5:44 in
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Interim Staff Bill C-279, a private member's bill that would add “gender identity” and “gender expression” to Canada’s Human Rights Act and Criminal Code, will come up for a vote on Wednesday. LifeSiteNews.com has the story, which reports:
Critics say that if passed, Bill C-279 will effectively abolish society's understanding of male and female.
The preamble to the bill states: “Gender Identity means, in respect of an individual, the individual’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which ... (Continue reading)
Written on 9 Jun, 2010 at 14:06 in
Human rights, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns Editor After controversy surrounding the federal government’s funding of Toronto Gay Pride festivities, Stephen Harper re-assigned responsibilities for the Marquee Tourism Events Program, which gave $397,500 to the homosexualist organization, to Industry Minister Tony Clement from Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism Diane Ablonczy. Pro-family organizations were outraged that the celebration of homosexuality, which often features scantily clad and naked demonstrators as well as simulated sex acts, received taxpayer dollars.
This year, Clement announced that the MTEP would not grant ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 May, 2010 at 19:37 in
Human Rights Commissions | Author:
Patrick B. Craine Special to The Interim
The homosexual activist who pursued Alberta pastor Stephen Boissoin on a complaint of discrimination since 2002 has re-launched his campaign, after a December court defeat, by taking his case to the Alberta Court of Appeal.
Dr. Darren Lund is appealing the Dec. 4, 2009 Court of Queen’s Bench decision by Justice Earl C. Wilson, who overturned a 2008 ruling against Boissoin by the Alberta Human Rights Commission.
The AHRC was dealing with a complaint from ... (Continue reading)
Written on 10 May, 2010 at 11:40 in
Human Rights Commissions | Author:
Commentary Harley Price Early in the previous century, G.K. Chesterton observed that it is the mark of the modern that “the normative is everywhere and always being subordinated to the non-normative.” In our own age of proliferating “rights,” it is a further mark of the modern that the universal is everywhere and always subordinated to the particular. Until relatively recently, the natural rights upon which all free and just societies were founded had, by definition, to apply to the universality of mankind and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 Dec, 2009 at 8:32 in
Human Rights Commissions | Author:
Tony Gosgnach Assistant Editor
Stephen Boissoin brought some of the tenacity that goes along with his being a boxer when he travelled to Ontario to speak about his human rights case recently.
Ending a self-imposed media and public speaking boycott of some length in time, Boissoin spoke in Grimbsy, Ont., just outside Hamilton, on Oct. 16 at a meeting of ... (Continue reading)