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On human rights
In an absolutely brilliant column in Maclean’s, Barbara Amiel supports Elton John’s and David Furnish’s attempt to adopt an HIV-positive infant from Ukraine — whose government will have none of it — and attacks the sort of columnists who abhor proposed familial relationships in the abstract without paying “the slightest attention to the child.” Easily the best thing we’ve ever read from Amiel.
Nearer the back of the same issue, you’ll find a terrific column from Mark Steyn, who notes the case of a canine-allergic Ottawa-area B&B owner dragged before the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal for refusing accommodations to a blind man and his dog. It’s all very well for purported human rights supporters to go after folks like Steyn and Ezra Levant, he argues — i.e., people who seek and enjoy the limelight. But mightn’t they spare a thought for the folks, like the poor B&B owner, just trying to “keep their heads down and make a living”?
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