Reading Time: 4 minutes For the CBC and others, a joke about cultural appropriation is more important than, you know, things like real racism
Tag: Discrimination
Cultural appropriation controversy is entirely about free speech
Reading Time: 3 minutes The only route to a better appreciation of the cultures in Canada is through exposure, questioning, expressing opinions – even if those opinions are wrong
Are Canada’s public schools truly for everyone?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Saskatchewan ruling gives provinces the impetus to explore the alternatives to forcing children, against their parents’ will, into secular public education
A reminder of the value of an inclusive education system
Reading Time: 3 minutes Malala Yousafzai brings to the House of Commons a much-needed perspective on issues of inclusion in education
New data pans First Nations custom-made election rules
Reading Time: 3 minutes May lead to discrimination and abuse of power, with disputes frequently ending up in federal court
Why French Canadians have a right to be offended
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Andrew Potter incident should be viewed from the perspective of an ongoing pattern of anglophones marginalizing francophones
Valuing motherhood advances women’s rights
Reading Time: 3 minutes The plight of the North American woman is that she can be all she wants to be, just don’t bring motherhood into the picture
Standing firm against a rising tide of anti-Semitism
Reading Time: 3 minutes The way to combat these racist abominations is to speak truth, and to speak it persistently in a loud and unified voice
Parliament debating legislation to curb genetic discrimination
Reading Time: 3 minutes While genome analysis can alter the very practice of medicine, there is a fear it can be used to discriminate on the ground of genetic characteristics
Why Canadians are resisting Motion 103
Reading Time: 3 minutes Given the existing protections against unwarranted discrimination in Canada, Motion 103 clouds rather than clarifies the Islamic question