Kellie Leitch is one of the candidates seeking the leadership of Canada’s Conservative party, and she attracted much attention with her proposal for “screening immigrants,…
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The Senate’s Champion of Diversity
With mere weeks remaining before the U.S. presidential election, which could see the victory of a candidate who has vowed to implement “extreme vetting” for…
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A Teachable Moment: Alberta’s Gay-Straight Alliance Debacle
One year ago, as Sochi geared up to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, Canadians united in condemnation of Russia’s anti-gay laws. Now, in preparation for…
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Why Human Rights Tribunals are Still Relevant
Speaking Out on Human Rights is a powerful response to the right-wing backlash against human rights commissions and tribunals. In this readable book, lawyer and McGill…
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Diversity Charter Takes Root in Peel Region
Peel Region has always been my home. Born in Waterloo, I moved to the City of Brampton with my mother and younger sister when I…
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No Hierarchy of Human Rights
An alarming idea has recently been circulating in human resources circles in Canada: when it comes to competing human rights, maybe there should be a…
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It’s not about sex — it’s about the law
There has been much talk about York University’s decision to accommodate the religion-based request of a male online student to not engage in group meeting…
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Québec’s very problematic Charter proposal
I grew up in Québec. We saw nuns in full habit everywhere: in schools, driving cars, the shopping centre. That Québec … steeped in religion,…
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David Carment (Religious Freedom? This office is about ethnic votes, Feb. 21) has theorized in the Globe and Mail that the federal government’s interest in…
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