The Human Rights Code Amendment Act, 2006, S.O. 2006, c. 30 is now in effect. As a result, the Ontario Human Rights Commission will no longer accept complaints of discrimination. All new applications alleging discrimination are to be filed with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO). Complaints that were filed with the Commission before June 30, 2008 can be changed to applications to the HRTO if the Complainant takes an active step to do so. [...more]
OTTAWA, June 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - LifeSiteNews has received confirmation through various sources that the Order of Canada Advisory Council has indeed voted to award the Order of Canada to notorious abortionist and militant atheist Henry Morgentaler today or tomorrow. There is reported to be a movement among Members of Parliament and others to attempt to stop the award or at least protest it as being inappropriate and against the opinion of a majority of Canadians. [...more]
Jean Chretien has again intruded onto the public radar, this time, to save his legacy. He should beware what he wishes for. In typical fashion he has presumed to be "vindicated" from judge Gomery’s implied accusations - that he was asleep at the controls. [...more]
It is the latest explosive example of how political corruption in China can have a dangerously destabilising impact. Thousands of rioters torched police cars and government office buildings in the south-western province of Guizhou after allegations that local officials covered up a teenage girl's death. It started with the rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl. The story that flashed around Weng'an county was that three men were responsible, two of them with great "guangxi", or local connections. One of them was reportedly the son of the deputy mayor. When the police report said she had killed herself, tensions really began to simmer. When her popular schoolteacher uncle went to the police to seek justice, he was beaten into a coma and subsequently died. The tensions turned into rioting. [...more]
A German child-killer has lost his claim that police violated his human rights by threatening him with violence to discover his victim's body. Magnus Gaefgen, 33, is serving life for the abduction and murder of the 11-year-old boy in Frankfurt in September 2002. [...more]
Conservative evangelicals representing half of the world's Anglicans launched a new global church yesterday, challenging the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury and vowing to rescue people from the forces of "militant secularism and pluralism" created by a "spiritual decline" in developing economies. The Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, Foca, will sever ties with the main churches in the US and Canada, whose leaders they accuse of betraying biblical teaching. Foca architects will tomorrow go to the conservative evangelical church of All Souls, in central London, to discuss global Anglicanism and English orthodoxy. [...more]
Trade union leaders are to put a broad set of demands to Labour ahead of its next general election manifesto, including free school meals for all primary children and new flexible working rights for parents. Recognising that Labour's financial crisis has put them in a powerful position, the unions have deliberately decided to hold back from demanding traditional workers' rights, and are instead pushing issues which they hope will have a broad appeal with core Labour voters. [...more]
Zimbabweans can only despair after the sham runoff election preceded by Robert Mugabe's government terrorizing supporters of the opposition party. The vicious megalomaniac has effectively devastated his country, which is now an economic basket case. Brutality, torture and murder are hallmarks of his regime and millions of Zimbabweans have fled the country. [...more]
The stench is becoming overpowering. Political sleaze scandals are raining down upon us like the unstoppable effluent from a burst sewage pipe. [...more]
Pierre Poilievre, who friends say is a politician with strong convictions and a natural gift for politics, won't have to worry too much about his controversial comments on the day of the Prime Minister's Indian residential schools apology. In fact, his supporters and detractors alike say the MP's support in his riding may have increased as a result. [...more]
The governing Conservatives don't want Environment Minister John Baird as their official spokesperson to speak out against Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion's new carbon tax plan because the government is trying to frame the issue as a tax policy, not an environmental policy, Conservatives say. [...more]
SAN FRANCISCO — More than a thousand wildfires — including a massive, stubborn blaze in the Big Sur region — were burning early Monday in Northern California and there was no relief in sight for weary firefighters. Fire crews inched closer to getting some of the largest of 1,420 blazes surrounded, according to the state Office of Emergency Services. Some 364,600 acres — or almost 570 square miles — have burned. [...more]
Right from Alberta | Green Shaft: Liberal S.O.P. of dividing the country -- Well we're just over 1 week into the official launch of Dion's Green Shaft policy and more Premiers have declared their opposition to it. And what better way to celebrate Canada Day, a day when we should all be celebrating our oneness, than to highlight how yet another Liberal policy is dividing this nation. [...more]
RCP | David Warren: The Resistance Must Continue -- As was perfunctorily reported on Thursday, the Canadian "Human Rights" Commission, one of three HRCs to which Islamists took Maclean's magazine for having published Mark Steyn, has self-protectively dismissed the case before it could come to tribunal. The Ontario HRC had previously dismissed it: but with an outrageous statement from its chief commissioner, Barbara Hall, to the effect that Maclean's was guilty of publishing "hate," nonetheless. She regretted that her commission had no mandate to try the case, but looked forward to a time when this mandate would be extended. [...more]
Times | Robert Mugabe to speak at African Union summit -- Robert Mugabe took his seat alongside his fellow leaders at an African Union summit today, hours after being sworn in for his sixth term as President of Zimbabwe. [...more]
OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day has favoured former police and corrections officers for new appointments to the National Parole Board since the Harper government took office in 2006, government records show. Of the 36 new members Mr. Day has named to the board since he became minister that year, 23 are retired police officers or former federal and provincial corrections staff. [...more]
Add northerners to the list of Canadians suspicious of Stephane Dion's proposed carbon tax. Over the weekend, Northwest Territories Premier Floyd Roland, Yukon Premier Dennis Fentie and Nunavut Premier Paul Okalik came out of two days of meetings in Yellowknife with a unanimous condemnation of Mr. Dion's "Green Shift" plan, which would slap $15.4-billion in taxes on carbon emissions. "To add on a cost to very high fuel costs already is just not an option for homeowners in our territory," Mr. Okalik said. "There really are no alternatives for us in Nunavut to turn to, to get away from diesel generation for power and for heat." [...more]
CTV | Canadians prefer Obama over own leaders: poll -- A new poll suggests Canadians would prefer to vote for Barack Obama rather cast a ballot for their own political leaders, while 45 per cent of Americans envy Canada's health care system. [...more]
I hadn't planned on writing a post for a couple of days but when I read Angelo Persichilli's column in today's Toronto Sun, I just had to share it with bloggers. It is one of the best pieces of writing I have ever read about the current situation in Ottawa. Absolutely, right on! [...more]
IT WAS A SPECTACULAR LATE-MAY AFTERNOON IN SOUTHERN ITALY,but the streets of Laviano — a gloriously situated hamlet ranged across a few folds in the mountains of the Campania region — were deserted. There were no day-trippers from Naples, no tourists to take in the views up the steep slopes, the olive trees on terraces, the ruins of the 11th-century fortress with wild poppies spotting its grassy flanks like flecks of blood. And there were no locals in sight either. [...more]
Labour is doomed under Gordon Brown's leadership, former party donor Sir Gerry Robinson has said. Sir Gerry, a businessman who last gave money to Labour in 2005, told BBC News Mr Brown had put it in "probably an impossible position to come back from". [...more]
OTTAWA -- Federal Conservatives and Liberals are accusing each other of purposely stoking resentment in Western Canada as Stephane Dion prepares to sell his national carbon tax proposal in Alberta, heart of the country's energy industry and bastion of Conservative political support. [...more]
Computer users whose days are constantly interrupted by email and instant messages are about to receive help - from the companies that devised the technology in the first place. High-tech giants including Google and Intel have recognised that constant bombardment with electronic communications can lead to overload, and are seeking ways to protect workers, starting with their own staff. [...more]
As the pain induced by higher oil prices spreads to an ever-growing share of the U.S. (and world) population, pundits and politicians have been quick to blame assorted villains – greedy oil companies, heartless commodity speculators and OPEC. It's true that each of these parties has contributed to and benefited from the steep run-up. But the sharp growth in petroleum costs is due far more to a combination of soaring international demand and slackening supply – compounded by the ruinous policies of the Bush administration – than to the behaviour of those other actors. [...more]
VICTORIA — On Canada Day, British Columbians will likely be paying the highest gas prices in the country, thanks to a new provincial carbon tax that adds almost 2.5 cents to a litre of fuel and has turned service stations into the province's latest political battle ground. [...more]
Shortly after President Robert Mugabe was sworn in for a sixth term in a discredited runoff vote, Canada announced measures to restrict its relationship with Zimbabwe. World leaders have condemned Friday's presidential runoff, in which Mugabe was the only candidate. [...more]
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty continues to push Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty to cut business taxes to help the province's sagging economy, despite suggestions by some economists that Ottawa provide the province with targeted assistance programs. [...more]
As Qassam rockets fired from Gaza landed in the Southern Israeli town Sderot on Wednesday morning, and again on Thursday, Hamas terrorists proved once again what everyone should already know – their word is meaningless. Well, Hamas' word on matters of peace, anyway. One need not look any further than Hamas' charter, which calls for Islam to "obliterate" Israel, to understand why. [...more]
