Category: Human Rights
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Homophobia in an Ontario Catholic School Board
The Halton Catholic District School Board serves 29,000 elementary and secondary school students in the municipalities of Oakville, Burlington, Milton and Halton Mills. It has enacted a policy to ban Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) clubs from forming in their schools. For those who aren’t familiar with GSAs, they’re support groups for queer students and their allies.…
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Trans Day of Remembrance
Saturday, November 20th, was the Transgender Day of Remembrance. In Ottawa, this was celebrated with the unraveling of a flag at the headquarters of the Ottawa Police, followed by a march to Parliament Hill and a candlelight vigil. NDP MP Bill Siksay, the man with the megaphone in the picture above, was there to speak about bill…
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Letter to my HR Department
Hi [HR Person], I was reading through our Manulife insurance policy. This is the bit where the term “spouse” is defined: “Spouse”, means an individual under the age of 70; a) to whom you are legally married, b) of the opposite sex with whom you have continuously cohabitated and who has been publicly represented as…