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Huffington Post Canada allowed me to post op-eds in 2016 to explain why I was pursuing mascots in the Human Rights Tribunals. The last article I submitted was rejected when I did an analysis of the effects of genocide on Indigenous North Americans for Canada’s 150th anniversary. It was off-brand for Huffington Post Canada. And that was the last time the portal to submit articles was open to me. 

Too bad I never got to tell Huffington Post that my promise to challenge DPCDSB’s mascot policy resulted in my wife losing a promised position at her work. She had an interview scheduled for  the last Friday in April on Tuesday of that week. The board called me on Wednesday for an appointment after the scheduled interview. I felt the board was tying my activism to my wife’s employment and I would file an HRTO complaint against the board. On Thursday my wife had an unplanned interview with the board and by noon on Thursday, the job promised in September was gone. Retaliation is unpunished by the HRTO. Take the Systemic Injustice course to see what I mean. Complainants are strategically punished for using the process.

I was using the HRTO to try and understand how my career was cut short in the HRTO process. And now involvement with these clowns at the HRTO and HRCO was causing problems for my wife’s employment as well. 

After the conclusion of the Hearing versus Mississauga, it was clear the HRTO was not going to go against Canada’s culture of racism. The HRTO and HRCO are part of the system of abuse. I wrote the article “The Elimination Factor” which included my analysis of the effect of genocide on North American Indigenous and my thoughts on how the culture of racism guaranteed a loss in the HRTO. I did not publicize the article but quietly left in Academia as evidence of what I saw in the HRTO.

There is an old saying in poker that if you look around the poker table and don’t know who the sucker is, then the sucker is you. I had been looking around the HRTO table for a while. 

I have shared that Academia writing and other articles on the Articles page. I know I made a mistake trusting in the HRTO process, the HRCO and its officers. The sharing of the articles and the course is an attempt to achieve three goals.

  1. To make people aware of the pattern of abuse that defines Systemic Injustice in Canada.
  2. To discourage anyone from having faith in the process unless serious changes occur.
  3. To shed light on the misdeeds of the HRCO and HRTO. 
  4. After having the wagons circle on my by the process for so long, I realize justice or peace will never find me. I am not seeking attention. I only want those who obstruct justice to be identified and dealt with. It is the Newfoundlander in me. When someone thinks their position allows them to deny rights, when they attempt to keep a stiff upper lip, I always want to give them a fat lower lip to match.

When I talk about the misdeeds of the HRCO I will give an example how the HRCO is part of the problem. Indigenous people are denied the same protections as other Canadians. It can best be summarized by the garishly offensive language of the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s 2018 report on the dialogue with Indigenous groups. The writers identified that the best course for their career was to pronounce: that (Canada’s) individual rights-based system is not ideally set up to effectively deal with some of the biggest issues facing Indigenous communities.

Individual Rights

For the chief defenders of human rights in Ontario to find conditionality in human rights to secure promotion to the Ontario Superior Court is a major perversion of her responsibilities. It signals the depth of depravity within Canada’s human rights system.

So if you take the course, or read the articles how can you be surprised when every level of Ontario’s government and the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal participate in the practice of making exceptions to deny Indigenous equality?