Thanksgiving weekend just got a little thanksgivier.

Darn if they had been found guilty they could have taken their marsupial majesties to actual court and rendered them actually neutered.
Fire. Them. All. Now....

Think of how pissed Dawgtor Dork will be.

But I see he's now busy apologizing for Dion . . .

What...????

OK. So who cut off their supply of BC's best and the magic mushrooms?

Can it be? Is a cloud of sobriety really descending upon Canada's human rights commissions?

If so, how long will this last?

Oh my god! Perhaps the same lifelines have been cut to the shakers and movers in Washington and Wall Street. No wonder the whole world is in economic meltdown now.

That fish is too big.
The cowards were afraid to rip the net and bend the handle.

Does Barb Hall feel stupid now?

"Does Barb Hall feel stupid now?"
Make no mistake , Barb Hall knows she has a strong ally in Ontario's David McGuinty.
It's going to take some political balls to change the course Canada is on, in regards to the various HRC's as they currently operate in the thought control arena.

Barb Hall's anti-stupid antibodies were virally removed decades ago. She's incapable of detecting stupid.

Ah nuts is right. They are free to apply justice to whom ever they feel, it's just more likely it will be someone without the means to defend himself.

"Can it be? Is a cloud of sobriety really descending upon Canada's human rights commissions?"

I assume your tongue is in your cheek.

Not a victory, but I'm glad the mohammedans were sent packin.

It was kind of naive to think the BCHRC would act in a manner more likely to make them end up jobless.

Reminds me of this exchange seen on "Boston Legal" earlier this week ;)

"We find the defendant not guilty."
"I want to appeal!"
"You can't appeal an acquittal!"

What about the costs?

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some victory... whaddaya figure mark
steyn's legal bills add up to?

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They'll keep going after the little guy. You can depend on that.

shaken - That's what I want to know too - the costs! And I mean to the taxpayers.

According to an idiot commentor on Coyne's blog, the case was "equivalent to a parking ticket." Does that mean taxpayers' costs will be comparable to your average parking ticket?

Macleans had the best lawyers money could buy in Vancouver. That's not always going to be the situation for future randomly selected victims.

This was an especially weak case, the plaintiff didn't even bother to show up, his lawyers only managed to produce one or two people who seemed to think their feelings might have been hurt if they had read the article, which I don't think they did.

It would be like suing for custody when your spouse had a bad hair day. How it managed to occupy a whole week is beyond me. Should have been thrown out on motion about 0800 Monday (in joke there, clock stuck at 0800).

This is transparent alright -- bureaucratic self preservation. The HRCs knew a 'guilty' verdict would result sooner rather than later in legal or political destruction. By this farce, they live to pontificate and fleece another day.
These school yard bullies will go back to feeding their pathetic little egos, not to mention their bank accounts, by picking on the little guys once again.

I hope Mark Steyn appeals the verdict

I think Ezra still has 16 actions going against himself by these clowns in roo mode. In the end though this is a small victory. They now themselves know what the word chill really means.
This group has to be c rushed into powder as an instrumentality of oppression. This group of autocratic puffins will not stop with the small guys, & will continue to pervert our legal system such as it is twisting it to an inversion of itself. Only at a lower level of activity.

The inquisitors are retreating as in Hudna, to re-group for the next onslaught. Mark my words, this is not over in a long shot. We have held the dyke though for a while against the Puritans without a god.

A tiny victory. So much farther to go.

Joe Molnar, you are right Dalton McGuinty is the living definition of "useful idiot".

While I recall that he did step back from the brink of permitting Sharia law in Ontario, I cannot see him have the clarity of vision to see what a threat to our future these courts of political correctness pose.

From an item today in another Mclean's blog --

Somewhere Mark Steyn is wetting himself:
http://blog.macleans.ca/2008/10/10/whats-swiss-for-insane/

Where IS Macleans jocular freedom-fighter?
Has Rogers given an unoffical verdict?