So, it must be good!
The Public Service Alliance of Canada condemns the Harper government's decision to close Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) offices in Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax. The union maintains that the closure of the three offices will make it substantially harder for individuals from marginalized groups to launch human rights complaints.
The three offices slated for closure received 70 per cent of all signed complaints to the CHRC in 2008.
Finally a little good news. I'd taken to watching Glenn Beck in recent days, just for the calming effect.
Heh. I can see the messaging already ...
Related - "Senator Doug Finley rose in the Senate to give notice that he would “call the attention of the Senate to the issue of the erosion of Freedom of Speech in our country” and that this would be done through an inquiry."
Update: Don't fill those party contribution envelopes just yet... fewer offices or more money? Sure glad we're not running a massive deficit.
Yea!!
It's a start......
Great news!
Woot!
You know those scenes from the old days of parades down the streets and confetti and streamers dropping from the high rises?.....I am having those visions.
Now what was it that Ezra Levant said?
Oh yea-FIRE-THEM-ALL!!
Good on Harper.
I attended day one of the Kangaroo Court for Mark Steyn last year.What a farce.
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Wonderful! Now if we can get the Alberta HRC closed down things will be looking up!
Calgary? Or is Ezra keeping them employed? ;-)
Oh the HUMANITY!
*someone had to say it..
"the CHRC's mandate will be reduced to mere suggestions"
and not one red cent should be payed for their suggestions either.
Hear Hear! Good call on Harper's part - all your, Ezra Levant, Mark Steyn's, Blazingcatfurs, and Kathie Shadie's hard work in getting the word out is finally paying off. Hope you celebrate enjoy a nice glass of wine tonight Kate.
So this is true?
Wow!
AND YES thank you to our government for listening to the people.
Next, CBC. Please.
Billion per year would certainly be better spent on health care, peroid.
"...this latest attack will have a particular impact on racialized people"
Is "racialize" even a real word?
But where will the racialized, margarinized people go for justice!?! It's not as if these poor helpless folk are equal under the law, or anything.
hallah-bloody-llujah - next up - defund the daffy left CBC
Oh.My.God
Coulter is truly amazing!!!!!
Ann, could you please move here permanently?
headline:
"Harper government attacks human rights
Closure of CHRC offices will punish marginalized people"
snip snip
"PSAC will fight the closures of the Canadian Human Rights Commission offices and continue to fight the Harper government's attacks on democracy and human rights," said Gordon.
i have never stated, supported or promoted at any time the idea that unions are marginalised.
I take it that HRcomplainants have never heard of buying a stamp and using Canada Post. OR doesn't PSAC support their brothers and sisters at CUPW?
This is interesting: "In B.C., residents will no longer have access to a human rights commission of any kind, as the B.C. Human Rights Commission was dismantled by the provincial government five years ago. "
I guess that whole Mark Steyn/Macleans thing in BC was just my imagination.
"Finally a little good news. I'd taken to watching Glenn Beck in recent days, just for the calming effect." said Kate.
Me too! Hahaha!!!
"Racialized people" Now there's an enlightening term. Hmmmmm.
Now the CHRC can pay the lawsuit that Ezra is about to launch for Ann Coulter.
Talk about chapping the a** of every employee of the CHRC. Can you just imagine, they will be watching their wages go to an American!!! Bwwwwwaaaaahhhhhhaaaaahhhhhaaaaaa!!!
"The PSAC "Condemns""
It's good thing for them I'm not king. I think they'd stroke, after my first days set of proclaimations.
-Smile-
They left the Edmonton office open.
"Coulter event sold out"
ctv
"Coulter's Calgary cry: 'Save the good Canadians'" CBC.ca
"We have a long history of hosting contentious and controversial speakers on our campus. [Tuesday] night was no exception, as people gathered here to listen to and debate Ann Coulter's opinions," he said.
more by Allan Rock"
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Definition of Heaven - email response from a reader at the news:
don.sharpe@$$$$$$ to me
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I'm standing next to Ann Coulter!
Of course, Coulter might now have to take her complaint to the U.N. Human Rights Council.
As Monty Burns might say-Ex...cell...ent.
PSAC being the reliable source of information that it is announces..."In B.C., residents will no longer have access to a human rights commission of any kind, as the B.C. Human Rights Commission was dismantled by the provincial government five years ago."....perhaps someone should tell Mark Steyn.
As a resident of BC, I guess I will have to survive somehow without a warm cuddly hate-crime security blanket
It's about time, right on.
Oh BCF, just enjoy it for a change, would you?
Not until Jenny's a bag lady on Byward Market Kate;)
"never heard of buying a stamp and using Canada Post"
They've never heard of picking up the phone and dialing 1-800-waaaaah either.
AWESOME news! This will give the whiny left and their media megaphone a MAJOR case of the yips. If this is just a hoax I'll be majorly pissed off.
Does that mean I can publish my cartoons now?
My wallet just opened up a crack. May donate to the CPC for the first time in over a year.
They left the Edmonton office open.
--For now.
If PSAC's against it, I'm all for it!
Or, as I prefer, the more descriptive... PSAC = PISSBAG.
Tomato / Tomahto.
My god. Just when I was all depressed after reading about the liberal fascists in Ottawa. A ray of Hope! (no change though)
As a rule of thumb anything those self absorbed idiots dislike or object to has to be OK.
Next, CBC. Please.
Billion per year would certainly be better spent on health care, peroid.
Posted by: ldd at March 25, 2010 8:36 PM
Nuh uh, that billion would look much better where it really belongs. In the taxpayers pocket.
Darn, now I feel bad about that nasty letter I sent to the CPC.
From the story:
In fact, 60 per cent of all racialized people in Canada live in Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax.
Racialized people? WTF?
People are racialized? How?
Is it April 1st?
I am waiting for the other shoe...
Harper is slowly but steadily getting up to speed, could be that he may call an election in the not too distant future. Especially given the Liberals can't even guaranty a unanimous vote from their own members.
How about close the CBC take that billion and let the people who actually earn the money keep it. Then just as an experiment...introduce private health care in the largest cities of Ontario, BC and Alberta. Then we'd have capitalists fleeing the US setting up shop here and all those Canadian-trained doctors who we sponsored with our tax money can move back here and set up shop and then the health care crisis and employment crisis would quickly disappear. Just a thought.
Its a toss up. Next the CBC...or the CRTC...if I have to choose, make it the CRTC. There would not be as much oposition. The sheep don't know the role the CRTC has played is protecting them from conservative ideas. Once its gone and a Foxnews type enity sets up shop here, it would not be long and the CBC would fade away with just a wimper as their funding shrinks.
Like a few others on here I was caught by this line. "The union, which represents CHRC employees, says this latest attack will have a particular impact on racialized people and recent immigrants."
"racialized people". Good grief. Does that mean that we white folk aren't even a race? If so, how can we be racist if we aren't even in the game?
To battle, to battle, to slay a fat HRC pig.
>>> "jolting the young".
ZeroU was the end of the beginning.
A long journey begins.
Speak your mind. Take back your country, Canada.
"Mattera explains why conservatism’s future rests upon jolting the young masses from their slumber, yanking out their earphones, and sparking a countercultural conservative battle against the rise of the ignorant Left.”
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"Just got off of the phone with one our group in south Texas. He has been reading this book and recommends it highly and offered to mail it to me.
I told him if was as good as he said I would just order a copy for our family.
Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation
The reviews are great. I will read it and then give it to my family to read including of course my two oldest who are serving.
From one of the reviews:
“Obama Zombies uncovers the true, behind-the-scenes story of the methods and tactics the Obama campaign unleashed on youth culture. Through personal interviews and meticulous original research, Mattera explains why conservatism’s future rests upon jolting the young masses from their slumber, yanking out their earphones, and sparking a countercultural conservative battle against the rise of the ignorant Left.”
Papa Ray"
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2010/03/24/its-for-the-children/comment-page-2/#comment-100411
Can't the CBC and CRTC be done as two for?
Speaking of the CBC, Rex Murphey, presented an excellent case for free speech on the CBC news tonight - I only heard the last couple of minutes, but it was clear he did not approve of what the U of O did.
The Canadian Human Rights Commission is the modern version of the Volksgerichtshof.
The left just can't seem to ever change its spots.
How about close the CBC take that billion and let the people who actually earn the money keep it. Then just as an experiment...introduce private health care in the largest cities of Ontario, BC and Alberta. Then we'd have capitalists fleeing the US setting up shop here and all those Canadian-trained doctors who we sponsored with our tax money can move back here and set up shop and then the health care crisis and employment crisis would quickly disappear. Just a thought.
Posted by: favill at March 25, 2010 9:34 PM
I was thinking earlier today, along this same line of thought, that the appropriate federal agency overseeing economic development should start targeting large U.S. firms for potential relocation to Canada. Just today on the news, I heard Caterpillar citing first year costs alone of $100M due to Hussein-Obama-care. Another large U.S. firm (apologies, the name escapse at the moment), cited first year costs of $150M.
Escaping those punative health-related cost escalations, coupled with appropriately managed tax holidays here in Canada, could make a move north financially worth considering for these large firms.
As a bonus, it might afford laid off PSAC members opportunity for real work. Win win.
Just a thought.