Canada will not support preparations for a UN anti-racism conference planned for Durban, South Africa, next year. The Canadians say the previous meeting in 2001 turned into an embarrassing promotion of racist attitudes.
“(The conference) turned into a bit of a circus for intolerance and bigotry, particularly but not exclusively directed at the Jewish people,” Conservative [...]
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Canadians Boycott Anti-Racism Conference as Israel Criticized
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Anti-White Racism / Racisme Anti-Blanc
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Supporters of black-only school shut down meeting
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Protesting parents shut down a Toronto District School Board meeting on Wednesday after realizing the issue of a black-focused school would not be discussed.
Dozens of supporters of a proposal to implement a black-focused school showed up to last night’s meeting expecting to discuss details of a feasibility report on the issue.
The TDSB spent $300,000 preparing [...]
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Quelle liberté de paroles ?
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Benoît Dutrizac et TQS mis en demeure
Plus de six mois après avoir quitté la chaîne de télévision TQS, Benoît Dutrizac y crée encore des remous. L’animateur et son ancien employeur ont reçu une mise en demeure pour des propos tenus en février dernier.
Un jeune Québécois d’origine libanaise, Haydar Moussa, leur réclame des excuses publiques [...]
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Paul Fromm Loses Teaching Ticket
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Paul Fromm, the well-known Canadian pro-White activist and anti-illegal immigration campaigner, has had his teaching certificate revoked. Fromm, who was fired from his teaching post by the Peel District School Board in 1997, was stripped of his certificate by an Ontario College of Teachers disciplinary panel, a full ten years after his last teaching post.
Through [...]
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White supremacists, anti-racism protesters clash in Calgary over veiled voting
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Two people face assault charges after members of a white supremacist group protesting a decision to allow veiled voting faced off against anti-racism demonstrators outside Calgary City Hall on Sunday.
About a dozen members of the white supremacist group Aryan Guard were demonstrating against a decision that lets Muslim women wear niqabs or burkas while voting [...]
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White men need not apply
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The B.C. human rights tribunal has approved a plan by Richmond to allow 75 per cent of new jobs in its fire department to go to visible minorities and women.
The tribunal is allowing preferential recruitment because Richmond wants to have a diverse work force free from discrimination, said Phyllis Carlyle, general manager of the city’s [...]
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Israël fait du “néga-sionisme”
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Israël accuse France 2 d’avoir mis en scène la mort du petit Mohammed
Un haut responsable du gouvernement israélien accuse France 2 d’avoir manipulé ses images pour présenter Israël comme responsable de la mort de Mohammed al-Doura, un enfant palestinien de 12 ans tué dans une fusillade entre l’armée et des militants dans la Bande de [...]
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Collège des médecins : acharnement juridique ou médical ?
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Début du procès du Doc Mailloux
C’est ce matin que commence le procès du psychiatre Pierre Mailloux devant le comité de discipline du Collège des médecins relativement à ses propos sur les Noirs. Cinq journées d’audiences ont été prévues pour les fins de ce procès. Pour l’occasion, le Dr Mailloux sera défendu par deux avocats, [...]
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Gunman Attacks Falun Gong Follower in Vancouver
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It was about 5:30 in the morning when Raymond Zhang’s meditation in a hut outside the Vancouver Chinese consulate was violently interrupted.
Three men approached on foot and began to tear down signs and a banner from the consulate fence. They then put a gun to Zhang’s head, pulled the trigger repeatedly and started to punch [...]
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Canada Urged to Grant Refuge to U.S. War Resisters
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When Lee Zaslofsky joined the War Resisters Support Campaign (WRSC) in April 2004, the campaign was barely two months old, launched shortly after an American deserter from the Iraq War named Jeremy Hinzman arrived in Canada seeking asylum that January.
Toronto lawyer Jeffry House agreed to take Hinzman’s case, Zaslofsky said, but House also realized that [...]
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Political website cited for crime of ‘offending’
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A website featuring comments by, for and about “principled conservatism” is being investigated by the Canadian government, and could be fined or ordered shut down for some postings about Islam and homosexuality.
Connie Wilkins, who with Mark Fournier runs Canada’s Free Dominion site and posts articles, comments and blogs on a wide range of issues, said [...]
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Canadian Territorial Court Rules Catholic Schools Must Accept Non-Catholic Trustees
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[Would they allow non-Muslim trustees in Muslim schools?-ed]
The Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories (NWT) ruled Wednesday that the Yellowknife Catholic School Board may not refuse non-Catholics to sit as trustees governing the board.
The issue brings to the fore the increasing trend to deny Catholics in Canada their rights to Catholic education supported by [...]
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Canada to commit $30M to Afghan legal system
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[Will women be able to use the legal system under Islamic law?-ed]
Canada is committing $30 million to help reform Afghanistan’s legal system. The announcement was made Tuesday in Rome by Helena Guergis, Secretary of State, Foreign Affairs and International Trade, who is representing Canada at a two-day conference.
Guergis is among representatives from more than 20 [...]
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No gay blessings in Canada Church
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The Anglican Church of Canada has decided against offering blessing ceremonies to same-sex couples.
A proposal to allow blessings dominated the Church’s General Synod meeting in the city of Winnipeg.
Opponents said the Church should not endorse homosexuality, while supporters urged it to break from tradition.
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Canada Catholics ‘ordain’ women
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An ordination ceremony that openly defies Roman Catholic doctrine has taken place in Toronto.
Five women and a married man, all Roman Catholics, have been ordained as priests and deacons by a female Catholic bishop.
However, the Vatican says it will not recognise either the ordinations or the group carrying them out.
The ordination ceremony [...]
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Gay bar faces human rights complaint
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A woman who was turned away from a gay bar has filed a human rights complaint.
Audrey Vachon was recently refused service at Le Stud in Montreal’s gay village after sitting down with her father for a quiet afternoon pint. A waiter came over and told her father, Gilles, that the bar doesn’t serve women. [...]
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“Black supremacist” speaks in Toronto
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Here is a black supremacist meeting:
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Graduation plans in Saskatchewan high school leads to accusations of racism
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A plan to hold a separate graduation for older students has divided Grade 12s in a central Saskatchewan town and has aboriginal leaders accusing parents of racism.
Students graduating from Leask School used to hold a joint ceremony with graduates from a special, storefront school whose students are mostly older and aboriginal.
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Taekwondo federation says hijab will be allowed
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The International Taekwondo Federation says women will be allowed to wear hijabs at an upcoming competition in Quebec City.
About 700 competitors from more than 60 countries, including Iran and Syria, will be taking part in the World Taekwondo Championships beginning May 31.
Federation president Tran Trieu Quan says the authorization is a temporary one because an [...]