Jul 19 2009
Canada has had a policy to give asylum to women who have been victims of physical and / or mental abuse in countries where there is no societal mechanism for justice and protection of their rights for 20 years…
and the US is just thinking about it *now*!?! (and also see this for more detail
Honestly, the woman around which this case is built should have just come to Canada (or Sweden, which has a similar policy)
Sep 27 2007
You have the right to free speech.
As long as you’re not dumb enough to actually try it.
Know your rights! These are your rights.
All three of them.
— The Clash
Aug 06 2007
Jan 20 2007
Jason has an interesting post up today re: a group of parents suing myspace for failing to protect/help them protect kids from predators online. My comments are also there for all to see, if you’re interested in them. I don’t have anything more to ad here. But it was a really good post which made me think & I wanted to put it up here.
Jan 18 2007
Bloggers have rights, too. Or so we like to think. And today I’m thinking about what those rights mean/are/should be. I guess I’m a pretty hardcore blogger, and I believe that it’s my space and my right to say what I want and to link to any freely available space that I want to, but do my rights need protecting? Yeah, actually, they do. Maybe I should join the EFF?
So I did a little search on the subject & here’s what I found:
C|net : Perepective: Bloggers have Rights, too
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Dec 19 2006
I’m certain they were made by sweatshop labour & the whole thing is completely evil (I mean, how could it not be so at those prices?!!), but after 5 years of grad skool I’m trying not to feel all that guilty that I bought an awesome pair of pants at Winners for $24.99 today.
Nov 29 2006
Aljazeera (English) | Racial Tensions on Rise in Malaysia
This is an issue close to my heart, because I worked in Malaysia for 2 years & because I have family there. Every few years somehow the issues of ethnic and racial divisions is brought up. During the leadership of Dr. M., this type of discussion was quickly suppressed. Even minorities didn’t want to talk about it. But he’s now in retirement and maybe people aren’t so scared anymore? I’ll be watching to see what happens there.
Nov 16 2006
The Economist | Multiculturalism in Canada: One Nation or Many?
I stopped my subscription to The Economist after they came out in favour of the Iraq War, but I still receive their weekly summary in my inbox. This week they’ve got an article on Canadian Multiculturalism which is worth reading, for the most part. It gives a summary of the current feeling in the country — at least on the media level — and the rising tensions while similarly saying that Canada’s version of Multiculty is still the world’s most tolerant.
