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Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- Acclaimed author Margaret Atwood has warned that the federal government's online harms bill is 'Orwellian' and its definitions of punishable hate speech are vague [...]

The Trudeau government went into the election last fall with two promises about 'protecting Canadians from online harms.' Having won re-election, they've discovered that doing so is easier said than [...]

Last year, on the final day that the House of Commons sat before rising for the summer, the Trudeau government tabled a bill that would have allowed the Canadian Human [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE, Staff Lead In Canada (Human Rights Commission) vs. Taylor, its 1990 ruling upholding Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act as a constitutionally valid limit on [...]

Byline: IAN BAILEY, COLIN FREEZE Lead The Liberal government has announced new legislation meant to curb hate speech that ministers said could set the stage for other bills in the [...]

Byline: KRISTY KIRKUP, Staff OTTAWA -- Lead Two orders from a human rights tribunal on discrimination against Indigenous children are unreasonable, a lawyer for the Attorney-General of Canada said on [...]

Byline: KRISTY KIRKUP, Staff Lead The federal government faced criticism on Tuesday from a First Nations advocate and the NDP for seeking a judicial review of a decision from the [...]

Byline: DAVE McGINN MATERNITY / EMPLOYMENT CONCERNS Jessica Maciel didn't give much thought to telling her boss she was pregnant. She assumed the news would be greeted predictably, with some [...]

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Hatred inferred The Canadian Human Rights Commission has unfortunately overcome its previous doubts about its own power to restrict freedom of speech, in the form of electronic [...]

Byline: TOM FLANAGAN Buried in the Conservative government's enormous Budget Implementation Act (C-10) is an obscure but significant reform - taking public-sector 'pay equity' away from the Canadian Human Rights [...]

Byline: GLORIA GALLOWAY OTTAWA -- The controversial section of the Canadian Human Rights Act governing hate speech comes under scrutiny today when federal politicians decide whether to debate the limits [...]

Byline: MARK FREIMAN; A legal counsel with Canadian Jewish Congress As technology changes how we communicate, cyberspace becomes the new frontier in combatting hate speech. Some argue the Internet should [...]

Byline: JACQUIE McNISH; jmcnish@globeandmail.com His client, Maclean's, secured a big win last week when the Canadian Human Rights Commission dismissed a complaint against the magazine from Muslim critics. Still, famed [...]

Offence won a valuable victory last week. The Canadian Human Rights Commission rightly concluded that certain words 'obviously calculated to excite and even offend certain readers' were not hate speech. [...]

Hate is a subject that the Canadian Human Rights Commission wisely wishes to think about. A law professor at the University of Windsor, Richard Moon, will write a wide-ranging report [...]

For more than 30 years, residents of native reserves have found themselves without human rights protections that the rest of us take for granted. The bad news is that, for [...]

Byline: BILL CURRY OTTAWA -- A 31-year-old loophole exempting native reserves from Canada's human rights laws will be closed after the Conservative government and the opposition reached a rare truce [...]

Byline: BILL CURRY OTTAWA -- The Conservative government is threatening to walk away from its own native human-rights legislation, saying that recent amendments from the opposition are unsupportable. Indian Affairs [...]

Byline: Rondi Adamson Toronto -- 'Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground,' 20th-century American journalist Heywood Broun once wrote. The real test of [...]

Keith Martin is a brave man. Last week, the Liberal MP put forward a motion in the House of Commons to delete Section 13(1) of the Canadian Human Rights Act, [...]

Byline: ROBERT NAULT; Minister of Indian affairs and northern development from 1999 to 2003 Canadians have long been proud of our country's history as a leader in human rights protection. [...]