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A Toronto comedian and Vancouver restaurant owner were ordered to pay $22,500 by a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal on Thursday after the standup comic hurled a torrent of sexual insults at a woman and her same-sex partner during a comedy show three years ago. Amateur standup comedian Guy Earle has been ordered to pay $15,000 to Lorna Pardy, 32, who filed the complaint last year after she and her lesbian partner were taunted at Zesty’s Restaurant on Commercial Drive on May 22, 2007. Restaurant owner Salam Ishmail has been ordered to pay her $7,500. Earle told The Vancouver Sun Thursday...

“Conceptions of the Muslim as Enemy — Conceptions of the Jew as Enemy.” This was the title of a conference held on December 8 at Berlin’s Center for Research on Anti-Semitism. The stated aim of the conference was to employ the template of anti-Semitism in order to analyze an allegedly new form of kindred prejudice: “Islamophobia.” The announcement of the conference sparked a raging controversy in Germany. It has been all the more intense due to the fact that the Berlin-based center is the most well-known and influential research institution of its kind in Germany and, arguably, in all of...

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( ( ( RADAR ALERT Curtis: A Wife Can Break Husband’s Arm if he Forgets their Anniversary Contact Ray Billingsley (the comic strip artist) and King Features Syndicate (which distributes the comic strip) and tell them the following: 1. The Curtis comic strip which ran on January 18, 2005 represents mean-spirited and highly inappropriate humor. 2. The comic strip reinforces a societal double-standard which warns, “There is no excuse for domestic violence” when the victim is female; but then says, “But it’s perfectly fine for a wife to injure and maim her husband.” 3. Mr. Billingsley’s comic strip is extremely...

It had the face of Frankenstein and the hands of a werewolf. Outfitted in jeans and flannel shirt, the creature - stuffed with crumpled newspaper - hung by the neck on a homemade gallows outside a home in the Allendale neighborhood. To its owner, "Bob" was a Halloween decoration. But to Omali Yeshitela, it was a racially charged symbol of hate. On Tuesday, as police officers on the scene scrambled to contact the homeowner at work, Yeshitela and others from the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement tore the dummy down. "There is no history of hanging ghouls in this country...

Board of Trustees to vote on Chief retirement Anne Gleason Staff writer The University Board of Trustees may vote on a resolution proposing to retire University symbol Chief Illiniwek at the board meeting on Thursday. The resolution asks that Chief Illiniwek be retired at a time and manner to be determined based on what students, faculty members, staff and alumni at the Urbana campus want. If passed, the Chief will be removed as a symbol, but the Board will continue to support the Fighting Illini name. Several board members said Trustee Frances Carroll was a supporter of the resolution. Carroll's...