February 2011

On Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Calgary Herald columnist Naomi Lakritz published a stunning piece of bigotry and ignorance deftly entitled Oh, Lord, please help Tremblay win against bigots, which allows Ms. Lakritz to promote bigotry, while accusing anyone with a differing opinion of the same offense.

The Tremblay referred to is Mayor Jean Tremblay of Saguenay, Quebec. Mayor Tremblay has announced he will “thumb his nose at a ruling from the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal which has ordered that a Christian prayer must no longer be recited before council meetings and the council chamber’s crucifix removed.” Instead, Mr. Tremblay is: “going to fight the ruling at the highest court in Quebec.” Ms. Lakritz says she hopes Mr. Tremblay wins his case and then uses the Tribunal ruling as a launch pad for a rant against human rights. Read the rest of this entry »

The New Canadian Values of Licia Corbella and the Calgary Herald

Recent events in Winnipeg have created a media backlash of sorts particularly from politically right of center columnists.  About a dozen or so recently immigrated families to Canada are demanding the right to have their children excused from music class for religious reasons. As Muslims, they believe that music is un-Islamic. Or, as Lois Riel School Division Superintendent Terry Borys put it  in the inane language and logic of  our day, “Music was not part of the cultural reality.”

Charles Adler, daytime talk show radio host, went ballistic on air and in his blog calling for an end to Canada’s multiculturalism policy. “Let’s declare that Canada is not for sale on the corrupt and corrosive altar of multiculturalism.” Licia Corbella, Editorial Page Editor of the Calgary Herald (aka, Canada’s largest Christian Daily) expressed similar sentiments. In a piece entitled Time to change tune on official multiculturalism in the Saturday February 12, 2011 edition of the Herald,  Ms. Corbella states:

The school division is facing the music in a typically Canadian way – that is , bending itself into a trombone to try and accommodate these demands, even though in Manitoba, and indeed the rest of the country, music and phys-ed are compulsory parts of the curriculum. Read the rest of this entry »