Hate Laws Take A Backseat When The Target Is Jews And I Wonder...

if this applies if the Jew is black, gay, transgendered, disabled, female, et al?

Toronto Star writer apparently withdraws from anti-Israel hatefest

Things That Piss U Off...

Today’s letters: Government discrimination, Jonas gets it right on census and Iran’s true enemy

Matt Gurney  July 26, 2010 – 7:30 am

 

Every day, readers flood our letters to the editor inbox with their thoughts and reaction to items in the news, leading to many interesting insights — and often arguments — between correspondents. Here are some of the recent letters received by the National Post.

 

Mandatory bilingualism also unfair

Re: Put An End To Affirmative Action, editorial, July 24.
I agree whole heartedly with your view that the government should put an end to the discriminatory hiring policies under the iniquitous but Orwellian named Employment Equity Act, favouring designated groups rather than individual merit for employment in government service.
I would add that the government should also do away with the bilingualism requirements in many civil service positions that favour Quebecers over English speaking Canadians.
Jiti Khanna, Vancouver.

Michael Ignatieff’s position on race-based affirmative action programs calls into question his ability to lead this country. Ignatieff is quoted as saying in a Canadian Press article that “We believe each Canadian has the right to participate in the public service”, yet he supports affirmative action programs that explicitly deny some Canadians the right to apply for some public service jobs. If Ignatieff believes that all Canadians should be treated equally, why isn’t he embracing the non-discriminatory approach that the government is proposing? Read More »

Canadian Judicial System At Work...

Pardon for Homolka - NO! Common sense decision.

Trial for David Chen - Yes! No common sense. No logic. Petty ass bureaucratic solution and a waste of taxpayer $$$.

Why a trial for David Chen?  

Worthington: Grocer chased down a shoplifter. Charges against him are ludicrous —the man should get an award. Initially charged with assault, forcible confinement, kidnapping and carrying a concealed weapon, Toronto store owner.. MORE...

Now That The Aga Khan Is A "Canadian" ...

...will he stand up and condemn the practices that impact on the rights of women?

Islamic fundamentalists ‘seem to be haunted by the female body’

Sun May 30 2010

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is turning up the heat on 'tolerance' for 'cultural practices' like female genital mutilation.

There Is Now A Sobeys And RBC...

...which will be a "gathering place" for All residents and only time will tell whether this commonality will extend to the living rooms of all the residents! Personally I doubt it. Good Luck.

Almost home

Tenants are moving in to the reincarnated Regent Park, but it’s too soon to know whether the utopian bid to create a mixed community will work. May 28, 2010

Hmm! Understandable Why Illegals Don't Want To Go Back...

Police state: How Mexico treats illegal aliens

By Michelle Malkin  •  April 28, 2010 12:36 AM

...and in Arizona

Are NDP Island Squatters Facing Same Increases?

Yachters fight stern tax hike

Landlubbing assessors levy an average 600-per-cent increase on city’s 18 private clubs Apr 23, 2010

Drivers SDhould Take Their Cause To Ontario Human Rights Tribunal

Complaints overwhelm human rights watchdog

I Say Again Give Cyclists The Same Privileges Given To Drivers...

Mammoliti: Start charging bike licensing fees

Mayoral candidate Giorgio Mammoliti and the Toronto Cyclist Union's Yvonne Bambrick join Canoe Live's Jacqui Delaney to discuss a new bike lane pilot project set to launch in Toronto this September.

Motorist/Cyclist Equality

* take a cycling test and obtain a cycling license

* purchase annual license plates for their bikes

* pay the new city fee for licensing their bikes

*obtain insurance

*mandatory helmet and seat belts

*using sidewalks is forbidden and is an offense similar to autos

*inclusion in Ride spot checks

Hepburn: Bike lanes on University Ave. make no sense

Bike lane plan spinning it wheels

BTL.. 1. the city did a study that determined..

 

 

Bricks And Mortar And $$$ Are A Factor BUT...

Interesting that inner-city, 'poor' Asian kids often do better than other kids from the richest schools.

So why is that?

.... In the language of the politically correct, achievement is equated with privilege. Such verbal sleight of hand evades the question whether individual's priorities and efforts affect outcomes, whether in education or in other endeavors. No need to look at empirical evidence when a clever phrase can take that whole question off the table....

http://dailymail.com/Opinion/tsowell/201002090618

Jane, March 14th 2010, 1:53am

Inner-city students need a helping hand

By Jenny Yuen, Toronto Sun

Khari Richards sits squeezed between classmates on the staff couch inside Toronto’s Nelson Mandela elementary school.

Where Could I Find Similar Facts About The Chinese Community

10 Things you may not know about black history in Canada

By Volume: 29, Number: 23
By Enzo Di Matteo

1. Black Loyalists from Nova Scotia set sail in a convoy of 15 ships across the Atlantic to found a colony of free blacks, appropriately named Freetown, in Sierra Leone in 1792. It’s a mere 30 kilometres from the notorious slave transit point Bance Island.

Richard Pierpoint

Illustration by Malcolm Jones

2. Blacks fought against American invaders in the War of 1812 as part of the Coloured Corps, founded by Richard Pierpoint, a native African sold into slavery and who won his freedom fighting with the British in the American Revolutionary War. The wrinkle: in this inspirational tale: the Corps was commanded by a white man, Captain Robert Runchey.
3. It wasn’t until 1979, more than five decades after its origins as Negro History Week in the U.S., that a Canadian city proclaimed Black History Month. No surprise it was Toronto.

Original petition presented to city council over circus performers from the U.S. ridiculing blacks.

CITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES

4. Toronto was not only a haven for slaves escaping the U.S., but was ahead of its time in protecting the human rights of black citizens. In July 1843, city council, responding to concerns raised by blacks, refused to let a circus perform without assurances that it would not sing songs or perform acts that would be insulting to the city’s “gentlemen of colour.”

Larry McLarty

5. The Toronto Police Services swore in its first black officer in 1960. He was Jamaica-born Larry McLarty, who started on the railroad shining shoes when he first immigrated to Canada. McLarty served 32 years on the force.
6. Many African-American slaves who made their way north via the Underground Railroad had to leave children behind. Vigilance committees were sometimes enlisted stateside to abduct children to reunite them with their parents.

7. Globe founding editor George Brown, one of the fathers of Confederation, appealed often for the abolition of slavery in his columns, despite widespread opposition among the ruling classes. Brown was an active member of the Anti-Slavery Society of Canada, founded in 1851 “to aid in the extinction of slavery all over the world.”

A black porter with passengers on Canadian Pacific Transcontinental in the 1890s.

Canadian National Railway

8. Canadian railway companies fuelled their rapid growth prior to the turn of the 20th century on the backs of imported black labour, promoting for a time the idea of extending provincial status to the Bahamas, Bermuda, Jamaica, Barbados, and other smaller islands to ensure a source of cheap workers.

9. South African freedom fighter Nelson Mandela was the first living person to be named an honorary citizen of Canada in 2001.

St. Catharines auto parts plant, 1944

York University Archives

10. Blacks have almost no labour history in the auto plants of the nation. The exception is black women. While thousands of blacks were recruited after World War II to work the assembly lines in the U.S., in Canada, Chrysler didn’t hire its first black worker until 1953, after passage of the Canada Fair Employment Practices Act.

Get In Line Behind Chinese And South Asians Who Suceed...

...even though they don't have a month dedicated to their history and accomplishments.

Time is now for bigger role for blacks

By Gary Pieters 

Is Black History Month still relevant or should we move on?: Madawo

By Innocent Madawo

A New Bully In The Schoolyard?

It has been my experience that with "boys" it is more bravado and noise but today "girls" are more spiteful and conniving and dangerous.

George Jonas: "Equality" — and other fairy tales

Posted: October 24, 2009, 9:00 AM by NP Editor

"Boys have become the West’s Second Sex,” wrote Barbara Kay earlier this week. True. Whichever sex isn’t first will be second. Equality is a chimera.

Halfway between Equality Day in the United States (Aug. 26) and Equality Day in Canada (Apr. 17) is a perfect day to write about equality. The concept itself is a halfway state, inherently unstable, like a coin standing on its edge before morphing into heads or tails.

Designated by the U.S. Congress in 1971, Equality Day commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendment, the day in 1920 on which American women were given the vote. The bill celebrating it half a century later was shepherded through the legislature by Rep. Bella Abzug, an early leader of feminism’s second wave in America.

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