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:Eric Ethington (Author) | February 11, 2011
Canada – Bill C-389 has passed the General Assembly. It adds gender identity and gender expression to the Canadian Human Rights Act and Criminal Code to protect transgender and transsexual Canadians from discrimination. Bigots are already up in arms over it. The bill squeeked by with a vote of 143 to 135 with the help of its [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 19, 2011
Ontario, Canada – Earlier this month, the Halton Catholic District School board came under heavy fire when the board president, Alice LeMay, said they were banning GSA’s for the same reason they would ban a “Nazi club.” The board has now backed down and are now allowing the GSA’s. Gay Straight Alliance clubs have been proven [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 11, 2011
Ontario, Canada – After an international outcry this past week over a Catholic School District’s decision to ban Gay Straight Alliances and the District Chairperson Anne Lemay comparing them to Nazi clubs, the board is scheduled to reconsider the ban tonight. The ban actually passed back in November, but it wasn’t until this past weekend [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 10, 2011
Saskatchewan, Canada – The Court of Appeals has just ruled against a government marriage commissioner who was refusing to marry same sex couples on religious grounds. After nearly 9 months of deliberation, religious beliefs are not a reason for a government official to discriminate. Very important distinction here folks, this is not a ban on [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 7, 2011
Ontario, Canada – A Catholic School Board has permanently banned all Gay Straight Alliances from their schools, saying they would do the same harm to students that a Nazi student club would. Hey kids, come get infected with the gay cooties and you get a free swastika today! Now true it’s a Catholic school district, [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | November 18, 2010
Love it! While aboard a flight on Virgin America Airlines from San Francisco to New York, the Captain took a little detour over Canada so he could marry two men legally. This is just fun Passengers on a red-eye woke up to an announcement more interesting than the typical “fasten your seatbelts” as they approached [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | June 25, 2010
Canada – A landlord who found out two men living in one of his apartments were a couple decided that the best plan of action wwas to tear up their lease and evict them immediately. Otherwise, he said, “god would kill him.” Speaking in his own defence in a Yellowknife boardroom, property owner Will Goertzen [...]
"Eric, trying to have this (civil rights) conversation with you is ultimately like trying to teach a pig to dance, it just annoys the pig. So Eric, sorry to annoy you."
-Paul Mero, The Sutherland Institute.