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A Mississauga businesswoman whose home was ordered seized to pay an Ontario Human Rights Tribunal award to a former employee can keep her house — for now. […] That October 2009 decision ordered Telfer to pay $36,000 to a woman who had been her employee for six weeks. Lawyers wanted the sheriff to seize and sell Telfer’s home to collect the money.
The woman who lodged the complaint, Seema Saadi, told the tribunal she felt pressured to wear skirts and heels instead of her hijab. Saadi also said Telfer complained about the smell of food that she warmed in the microwave.

h/t ET

“And how are things in crosshair country?”, I asked.

Uri Goldflam replies via email,

What I find most amazing is the speed in which Europe and Obama drop-kicked Mubarak, the dictator they’ve been supporting and funding for the past 30 years, and embraced the “young forces of democracy and freedom” – not really considering that the only organized and well disciplined alternative who have an extremely broad based popular support are the Muslim Brotherhood.
I mean, seriously, lets say there are 250 thousand 20-30 somethings – educated, jobless, pro-western – that understand the democratic process. What about the other 79,750,000 ??? Does anyone really believe that they will weigh the options and choose one of the opposition parties?
They will go to the lowest common denominator. the “Oneness”. The Quran.
So this is what we have to look forward to – a hegemonic Iran, a radicalizing Gulf (where al Jazeera comes from), a wahabi Saudi Arabia, a fundamentalist Suni Egypt, a destabilized Jordan, a radical Syria, and a Hizbullastan in Lebanon.
Since America is considered weak and unreliable (thank you BO!) the Arab world will turn to China and Russia.
And Obama still thinks his biggest problem is a Jewish kindergarten in the West Bank…

Ass Kicked To The Curb In Canadian Politics

“Partly, that makes me mad at myself – for trusting him, for believing him when he said he believes in the same things I do, and for devoting billable time (and vacation time with my kids, even) to following him in an erratic, bizarre campaign that ended in the single digits.”*.

Related: Can he pick ’em, or can he pick ’em? – Warren Kinsella endorses Muslim Brotherhood in Canada
Update – Well, looks like someone had a real thing for ol’ Rocco. There hasn’t been a meltdown of this order since he and Billie Joe were seen throwing sofas off the Tallahatchie Bridge.

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A lot of news coverage of the events in Egypt has – quite understandably – focused on the speculation and analysis that’s taking place in Washington, London and elsewhere. For a more visually immediate perspective, here’s some footage shot four days ago on the streets of Cairo by Sky News’ Duncan Sharp.
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