Racist sentiments against minorities are rising across Canada, data shows
Racist sentiments against minorities are rising across Canada, data shows
“Reject Migration,” screamed one of the banners held up by demonstrators at Parliament Hill in Ottawa last Saturday.
“Keep Canada Sovereign,” declared another outside the city hall in Saskatchewan, one of Canada’s western provinces.
Hundreds of demonstrators across the country called for the federal government to pull out of the United Nations’ Global Compact for Migration, a document agreed in July by all but one of the UN’s 193 countries – the United States. On Monday, Ahmed Hussen, the Canadian immigration minister, formally agreed to the global pact at a UN conference in Marrakech.
Singapore Editor Charged with Defamation for Publishing Letter Alleging Government of Corruption
Singapore Editor Charged with Defamation for Publishing Letter Alleging Government of Corruption
The editor of a Singaporean website was charged with defamation Thursday for publishing a letter alleging corruption among the city-state’s leaders, with rights groups criticising the “heavy-handed” response from authorities.
Singapore has long been criticised for restricting free speech and other political rights, as well as slapping critics with financially ruinous libel suits.
The affluent financial hub is regularly ranked among the world’s least corrupt countries and its leaders are sensitive about accusations of graft.
Terry Xu was charged in court with defaming government ministers after his independent media website, The Online Citizen, published a letter stating there was “Corruption at the highest echelons” of Singapore’s government, according to court documents.
Southern Baptist Seminary Confronts History Of Slaveholding And ‘Deep Racism’
Southern Baptist Seminary Confronts History Of Slaveholding And ‘Deep Racism’
The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, came into being in 1845 as the church of Southern slaveholders.
Now, 173 years later, Southern Baptist leaders are not just acknowledging their dark history; they are documenting it, as if by telling the story in wrenching detail, they may finally be freed of its taint.
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, the denomination’s flagship institution, this week released a 71-page report on the role that racism and support for slavery played in its origin and growth.
Burnsville High School tackles racism
High School tackles racism
Students who walk the halls of Burnsville High School are trying to unlock pain caused by blatant racism.
Most recently, someone painted a rock and the pavement that surrounds it with racial slurs and other offensive language.
Last year, a homecoming invitation making a reference to picking cotton went viral. Wednesday, members of the black student union, with support from staff, turned their pain to action.
The entire study body, which is made up of more than 2,500 students, participated in a tough conversation about race. Attorney Paula Forbes and members of Youth Lens 360 led the conversation.
The politicians who sued for defamation in 2018
politicians who sued for defamation in 2018
It has been a big year in defamation law. Rebel Wilson’s record defamation payout was reversed, actors Geoffrey Rush and Craig McLachlan are both suing major newspaper groups, Fairfax is appealing a $300,000 payoutawarded to cricketer Chris Gayle, and broadcaster Alan Jones has become an even heavier liability for his radio station’s new majority owner Nine.
But it’s not just celebrities who’ve been getting in on the act this year. Australian politicians have a track record of trying to restore their reputations through the courts, and this year has been no exception. These were the most headline-grabbing examples …
It has been a big year in defamation law. Rebel Wilson’s record defamation payout was reversed, actors Geoffrey Rush and Craig McLachlan are both suing major newspaper groups, Fairfax is appealing a $300,000 payoutawarded to cricketer Chris Gayle, and broadcaster Alan Jones has become an even heavier liability for his radio station’s new majority owner Nine.
But it’s not just celebrities who’ve been getting in on the act this year. Australian politicians have a track record of trying to restore their reputations through the courts, and this year has been no exception. These were the most headline-grabbing examples …
Premier League fear racism storms involving Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Raheem Sterling are damaging their global brand
Premier League fear racism storms involving Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Raheem Sterling are damaging their global brand
The Premier League fear the two high-profile racism storms that have rocked English football are damaging their global brand.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Raheem Sterling have been at the centre of two racism controversies in as many weeks, triggering questions about how tolerant English football is.
The Premier League swiftly released a statement condemning the incident at Stamford Bridge concerning Sterling, who was allegedly racially abused by a Chelsea fan.
But while the flashpoint has dominated the news agenda in recent days, the incident has hardly been visible on the Premier League’s official website.
Sportsmail also understands the body’s own in-house programming have kept reporting of the flashpoint involving Sterling to a minimum, in what appears to be an effort to curtail the impact of the incident.
Indigenous leaders react to report on ‘systemic racism’ among Thunder Bay, Ont., police service
Indigenous leaders react to report on ‘systemic racism’ among Thunder Bay, Ont., police service
First Nations leaders said an independent review describing the “systemic racism” within Ontario’s Thunder Bay Police Service and its failure to adequately investigate the deaths of nine Indigenous people was troubling, but not surprising.
“I was very concerned, but we already knew what was happening,” Robin McGinnis, the chief of Rainy River First Nations, located west of Thunder Bay, told CTV News Channel. “The thing that surprised me the most was how honest the report was.”
The 206-page report, issued by Ontario’s police watchdog, made 44 recommendations, including that the nine deaths should be reinvestigated.
“The failure to conduct adequate investigations and the premature conclusions drawn in these cases is, at least in part, attributable to racist attitudes and racial stereotyping,” the report concluded.
Experts look at racism as cause for higher infant mortality rate among African-Americans
higher infant mortality rate among African-Americans
An expert says a conference in Cincinnati Wednesday was looking at racism as the reason for a much greater infant mortality rate among African-Americans than whites.
“What we do know and what we’re concentrating on this conference is really looking at racism,” said Stacy Scott, PhD and co-chair of the Ohio Collaborative to Prevent Infant Mortality.
Health officials recognize there’s a big problem when three out of every four babies who die prematurely are African-American.
At the Ohio Infant Mortality Summit Wednesday at the Duke Energy Center, there was heavy focus on newly released state numbers.
White supremacist who killed protester leaves a mother ‘forever scarred’
White supremacist who killed protester leaves a mother ‘forever scarred’
The mother of a woman killed in a car attack during a white supremacist rally here last year told a jury on Monday that her daughter “was full of love, she was full of justice, she was full of fairness” – and that avowed neo-Nazi James Fields jnr “tried to silence” her by ramming his speeding Dodge Challenger into a crowd of anti-racism demonstrators.
“I refuse to allow that,” Susan Bro testified in a strong but sometimes halting voice.
Bro, mother of 32-year-old Heather Heyer, was the prosecution’s fourth and final witness at the sentencing hearing for Fields, who was found guilty on Friday of first-degree murder and other crimes for an August 12, 2017, act of homicidal vehicular rage.
“Almost all members of our family have gone into grief therapy as the darkness has tried to swallow us whole,” Bro said. Her daughter, who worked for a local law firm, had been described by friends as a committed advocate for social justice. “We are survivors,” Bro said, “but we are much sadder survivors. We are forever scarred by the pain.”
Chris Gayle to receive half of defamation payout pending appeal
Chris Gayle to receive half of defamation payout pending appeal
International cricketer Chris Gayle will receive half of the $300,000 awarded to him in his defamation proceedings against publications including The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, pending an appeal in the case that is expected to be brought by the publisher.
In a judgment on damages delivered last week, Supreme Court Justice Lucy McCallum awarded the 39-year-old cricketer $325,112, including interest, over a series of defamatory reports in The Age, the Herald and the Canberra Times alleging he exposed himself to a massage therapist during the 2015 Cricket World Cup in Sydney.
Gayle was also awarded legal costs on an ordinary basis up until July 6, 2017, and on a higher indemnity basis thereafter.
