Ezra Levant has reported today that Liberal MP Keith Martin has introduced a Private Members Bill (M-446) that simply states:
That, in the opinion of the House, subsection 13(1) of the Canadian Human Rights Act should be deleted from the Act.
This is indeed big news, and will surely grab some media attention that this issue richly [...]
Today the National Post covers the story of an RCMP probe into internet writings of one Bangladeshi-Canadian named Salman Hossain who supported the killing of Canadian troops and even wished for the death of Peter McKay on a trip to Afghanistan.
The Post story quotes a Canadian ’security expert’, Professor Wesley Wark:
"So what we are in [...]
The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has approved a request for an Afrocentric school in its district for 2009.
If you haven’t been following this, the move has been championed by local black communities to ‘combat’ a 40% drop out rate of black students. The schools will have be Afrocentric in its style and, presumably, substance.
Martin [...]
Here's a thing I found; an Osgoode Hall house magazine article that could be interpreted to be at least as Islamophobic as any that Maclean's has published. Certainly the author concludes with a suggestion that Islam could be the dominant religion of the west, if not for its thin-skinned followers.
So, why are the Osgoode 4/CIC [...]
I posted a few thoughts yesterday on Canada’s role in Afghanistan, mostly about the inability of the three opposition parties to understand that role and how important it is.
Since I wrote that post I have read the entire Manley report (available as a PDF here), and I was deeply impressed by the clear, no-nonsense analysis [...]