If Their Was Ever A Need To Practice Apartheid...

...it would be against QuAIA!

Cohn: Not all apartheid is created equal

By Martin Regg Cohn

Tue Jul 06 2010

If it looks like apartheid and sounds like apartheid, why not call it what it is? Solidarity with the Palestinians, anyone?

Queers Against Israeli Apartheid “free speecher” tries to censor pro-Israel demonstrator

Remember how the QuAIA issue was all about free speech? They meant for them, not for opposing viewpoints

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Let's See How Parrish Manipulates This Against Hazel...

Employees may be fired over spanking incident: Mayor

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Horseplay or not, the mayor of an Ontario city where workers were bound in duct tape and spanked said firing the employees involved in the bizarre incident has not been ruled out.  June 02:01 

Mississauga workplace allegations: Seeking a kinder, gentler boss

Two employees being bound together face to face using duct tape and then having water balloons thrown at them while they roll around on a large table in the sign shop.” That’s how the outside team called in by the City of Mississauga to investigate allegations of workplace irregularities, for lack of a better term, described the bizarre incident depicted in a cellphone video obtained this week by CBC News. Less corroborated accusations of employee abuse or hazing include vicious spankings, forced head shavings and “an employee [being] bound using duct tape and put on the back of a truck, which was sent through the wash bay.” Read More »

Come on Hazel...someone in your cadre must have at least heard rumors about this silliness!

Police probe duct-tape hazing at Mississauga workplace
Five years after the abuse allegedly started, six months after the City of Mississauga began its own probe and two months after police were shown a damning video of mistreatment at work, Peel Region police are now investigating the allegations.

Drivers SDhould Take Their Cause To Ontario Human Rights Tribunal

Complaints overwhelm human rights watchdog

zHuman Rights Commission Should Look At Driver Discrimination!

A simple way to speed up the Spadina streetcar

Ed Drass

08 February 2010 05:15

 

After the subway network, the 510 Spadina streetcar route is one of the TTC’s most important corridors. And yet, more than a decade after opening, this transit line is still not reaching its potential. Exclusive lanes keep traffic off the rail tracks — which helps speed service — but regular users of this route also know the streetcars don’t travel very quickly.
There may be times when the nearby 511 Bathurst car is faster, even though that route has no right-of-way to keep cars out. So, what’s holding up Spadina?
The 510 line is very heavily travelled but it does not have traffic signal priority at many key intersections. Almost all other streetcar routes (and some of the TTC’s top bus routes) are equipped with technology that can give transit vehicles a bit more time to clear intersections.
By extending green lights, transit vehicles can save an average 16 seconds per intersection.
Add that up along the length of a route and many more people can be moved every hour. 
By comparison, the transit priority system is now working on the entire 512 St. Clair corridor — just a month after the line re-opened.
In 2005, transit watcher Steve Munro asked the TTC why the technology wasn’t in place at major Spadina junctions. Years later, staff still have not provided a formal explanation.
However, both TTC and City of Toronto officials tell In Transit that things are finally moving. The city’s Bruce Zvaniga reports that most of the key intersections should be equipped by the end of 2010.
Of course, this doesn’t guarantee clear sailing. Signals at minor roads already have transit priority and streetcars can still get red lights.
Also, TTC drivers must stop before crossing complex track switches — which are found at those same major intersections.

Idiots Champion Idiot Rights

Jonathan Kay on Barbara Hall, and the latest 'human-rights' embarrassment

Posted: December 10, 2009, 2:34 PM by Jonathan Kay
Filed under: Jonathan Kay,human rights

Imagine you're a hard-working suburbanite. You've scrimped and saved, and put together enough money for the a down payment on a four-bedroom house. You'll be paying the thing off for years — decades, even — but it's worth it: You've got a safe place for your children to grow up, as well as a rock-solid investment you can fall back on when the mortgage is paid, and it's time to retire.

Now imagine your dream being destroyed: Landlords start buying up adjacent properties, and turning them into cheap dorm rooms for students at a nearby trade school. Instead of your neighbours being families with young children, they're suddenly drunken all-night partygoers who use the streets as a toilet.

And so you fight back in the courts — finally persuading a provincial judge to declare the offending properties illegal. It's a first step toward taking back the neighbourhood from the flop-house industry and the denizen of Psi Chugga Chugga.

But now imagine that a bureaucrat comes wading in to the fray, and litigates against you using your own tax dollars, wailing to the court that your desire to retain the family character of your neighbourhood violates Psi Chugga Chugga's "human rights." How would you feel?

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Kelly McParland: Battle over hockey crest invents insults where there aren't any

Posted: December 10, 2009, 4:00 PM by Kelly McParland

This is probably going to expose my lamentable failureto appreciate ethnic sensitivities, but here goes:

There is an unusual case going on in the U.S. The University of North Dakota is under pressure to drop the name and logo of their hockey team, the Fighting Sioux.

You can see why: Fighting Sioux. It's named after an Indian tribe. The logo shows a Sioux warrior, complete with feathers. It's not unlike the crest of the Chicago Blackhawks.

The news story says the name has been deemed "hostile and abusive to American Indians." Other U.S. colleges have acceded to warnings from sports officials to change their names to avoid hard feelings. But North Dakota has held out, and has the support of many Sioux. Members of the Spirit Lake Tribe, one of two Sioux groups in the state, have sued to block the name from being changed. But the issue is dividing the campus, Indian tribes and the state. It gets very messy, and university leaders fear it is causing damage to the image and reputation of the institution.

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It Would Be Politically Incorrect To Answer Kay's Question

Jonathan Kay: How did the École Polytechnique anniversary get transformed into a festival of cynical, hyperfeminist propaganda?

Posted: December 08, 2009, 3:15 PM by Jonathan Kay
Filed under: Jonathan Kay

On July 12, 1995, Serbian forces near Srebrenica began cleansing the local population of Muslims. Like the Nazis who greeted Jews at the concentration camps, the Serb commanders sent their prey off in different directions. Women and children were put on buses, and expelled to the Muslim-majority Bosniak territory up north. But the men, including boys as young as 14, were directed instead to a building described as the "White House."

They never came out. Most were killed with a single bullet to the head, but others were left to die through more gruesome methods. More than 8,000 Bosniaks perished in the Srebrenica massacre, all but a few dozen of them male.

In other words, this genocide wasn't just aimed at Muslims, but more at male Muslims. If you were a woman, you lived. If you were a man, some Serbian Josef Mengele would wave his hand and dispatch you to the charnel house.

And yet, do any of us mourn the dead of Srebrenica as anything except human beings — as opposed to martyrs for manhood? When the 15th anniversary of this episode is observed in July, will male bloggers wail about their lot — about how they live shorter, more violent lives than women? Will the event become a pretext for complaints about, say, child-custody bias in family courts?

Somehow, I doubt it. So why is our observance of the the École Polytechnique Massacre — whose 20th anniversary passed over the weekend — always shot through with exactly this sort of crass activism?

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Barbara Kay: Twenty years after the Montreal Massacre, it's time to end the moral pogrom against Canadian men

Posted: December 08, 2009, 2:51 PM by Jonathan Kay
Filed under: Barbara Kay

December 6, marking the 20th anniversary of the Polytechnique massacre of 14 Montreal women engineering students, is a date that normally sparks a print column from me. I decided to pass this year on print and post in the blog, as I have made my case against the sanctification of this event so many times before, and have nothing new to add to this column in December, 2007, where I laid out my complaints in full. But I am particularly glad I didn't do a column on the massacre this year, because it would have looked like a crib of the December 7 column by Margaret Wente in the Globe and Mail, in which Wente pretty well reprises everything I have been saying about the misandry-driven, Polytechnique-fuelled White Ribbon campaign for years.

I am not accusing Wente of cribbing me, by the way. On the contrary, I am glad to know that Wente has independently come to the same conclusions as mine, and am very glad to have such a prestigious ally in debunking this unwholesome enterprise. As Wente notes, women are no more at risk from male violence today than they were before, as violent crime in general is going down, and men are far more at risk for violence from other men than women.

But they're only men, so who cares. Not feminists. One of the great curiosities of the feminist movement is their indifference to male victimization by both male and female perpetrators. In cases of male-on-male violence, they pretty take the attitude that it doesn't count as worthy of public sympathy (even though they ignore or make excuses for lesbian-on-lesbian violence, statistically higher than male-on-female violence in intimate partnerships). In cases where women really hurt men badly - and guns, knives or, say, golf clubs, for a random example, are a great leveller - they may find it "amusing" (this is how one Montreal radio station female guest characterized the image of Tiger Woods being chased around by an angry wife); or if they aren't quite so heartless, they'll still refuse to admit that women can administer violence to men unless provoked, even though all credible research, as well as the unforced admissions of many many female perpetrators of violence, tell a different story.

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Follicle Discrimination

DiManno: Life is so dis-tressing for blonds

On those occasions when my friend Christie Blatchford says something particularly ditzy or trips on a sidewalk crack or gets us totally lost whilst driving, I always dryly observe: "You're having a very blonde day."

Obviously Not Delivering The National Post

From the government, a new racist stereotype

National Post Published: Thursday, November 19, 2009

Earlier this month, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) awarded $5,000 to a black female newspaper carrier who insisted she had been arrested by police in early 2007 only because of her skin colour.

Early one morning, Sharon Abbott was delivering newspapers to homes in Toronto's west end. Police Sergeant Stephen Ruffino observed her car double-parked outside an apartment. Then he saw her re-enter the vehicle, turn left without signalling, drive without a seatbelt and swerve from side to side. When she got out again, Sgt. Ruffino tried to stop Ms. Abbott and give her a warning, but she failed to stop and identify herself several times. So he briefly scuffled with her, handcuffed her and detained her for 45 minutes.

Although the HRTO found no "conscious" racism on Sgt. Ruffino's part, it nonetheless concluded his actions were motivated by a deep-seated prejudice ... of which he was apparently entirely unaware.

The Tribunal also stated, without substantiation, that white people in authority have "an expectation of docility and compliance" from black people they encounter.

We guess we're behind on the latest politically correct dogma, but hasn't the traditional racist stereotype of blacks depicted them as violent, unpredictable criminals -- which is to say, the very opposite of docile and compliant? The world of official human rights has entered such a surreal la-la-land that its mandarins can't even keep it straight in their heads what stereotypes and prejudices they're supposed to be fighting.

In fact, we'll be honest: Not a single person on this editorial board had ever heard of the "expectation of docility and compliance" that is supposedly rampant in the minds of white people. It's almost like the Human Rights Tribunal... made it up.

Government officials inventing, promoting, and publishing brand new racist stereotypes. Your tax dollars at work, Canada.

Will Rents Rise And/Or Will You See fewer Rentals And More Condos

'Practical help' for landlords, tenants

By JONATHAN JENKINS, QUEEN'S PARK BUREAU

If ignorance is bliss, tenants and landlords must be happy with Ontario's Human Rights Code as few on either side of the rental housing divide seem to know much about it.

Becoming a landlord: More trouble than it's worth?

On the surface, being a landlord seems likes like a surefire bet, but it's usually more headache than it's worth.

Were The "Tasteless" Comments Made In Both Official Languages

CBC gets 'knuckles rapped' for tasteless broadcast

By ALTHIA RAJ, NATIONAL BUREAU

CBC broke the rules by airing tasteless and abusive racial comments, Canada's television watchdog said yesterday as it ordered the public broadcaster to offer an "unqualified" apology.

What About Protecting The Rights Of Tenants......

....from abusive, noisy, disruptive tenants?

Commission takes aim at rental discrimination

Subtle discrimination in Ontario’s rental sector over race, age or social standing will be among the problems targeted in a new housing policy this fall from the Ontario Human Rights Commission, the chief commissioner said yesterday. 20 August 05:44