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Posted in Canada, privacy, Uncategorized on Feb 11th, 2009
The Ottawa Citizen is running an interesting feature on the growing trends and technologies of surveillance. The Surveillance Society: At least 14 Canadian municipalities are using surveillance cameras to monitor people in public spaces, and another 16 are considering them or have considered them, according to the first independent study of video surveillance in Canada. [...]
This is a pretty unbelievable story about Muslim student intimidation in an Ottawa classroom: Because Miriam was quite aware of the pervasive anti-Semitism amongst her students, she did not reveal she was Jewish. However, after her absence from school on the Jewish High Holidays, she was subject on a daily basis to overt anti-Semitic comments [...]
Posted in Canada on Feb 9th, 2009
From today’s Globe and Mail: OTTAWA — The controversial section of the Canadian Human Rights Act governing hate speech comes under scrutiny today when federal politicians decide whether to debate the limits it places on freedom of expression. Brian Storseth, a Conservative MP, has asked the Commons justice committee to review Section 13 of the [...]
Posted in Canada, israel, Uncategorized on Feb 8th, 2009
A BBC poll that asked people which countries had the most positive and negative influences on the world found Germany on top, and Israel at the bottom. I’m no psychologist, but does that not just scream out that the world really does have some sort of demented Holocaust-guilt syndrome and that they want to rationalize [...]
From PressTV, Iran’s fair and balanced state news: Canada’s staunch support for Israel during its 23-day war on Gaza has caused uproar at the United Nation’s Human Right’s body in Geneva. During Canada’s first Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the Human Rights Council in Switzerland, Toronto [ed: Canada?] was questioned on its unconditional sympathy for [...]
The Lebanese-Canadian MP of Montreal who in 2006 was forced to apologize for accusing Israel of committing war crimes has sent out an e-mail to her colleagues containing explicitly anti-Israel, and I would say anti-Semitic material: OTTAWA — A Bloc Quebecois MP was upbraided for sending all of her colleagues in the House of Commons [...]
Posted in Canada, Uncategorized on Feb 3rd, 2009
You may have heard about the recent vandalism at a Venezuelan synagogue. In one of those moments that I can truly be proud to be a Canadian (moments which are happening more and more under Harper), Canada has come out and is one of the first countries worldwide to strongly condemn it: OTTAWA (AFP) — [...]
So the strike is over, but that’s just a temporary fix: The Council of Ontario Universities is predicting the economic downturn will hit its schools, helping rip a $511-million operating hole in this year’s budgets. Council president Paul Genest warns the unprecedented shortfall could be enough to cause some universities to close. “We’ve been hit [...]