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Native Injustice “Template” for Canadian Discrimination: CJCPR Chair In a recent major address to a symposium on hate-motivated crimes, CJC Pacific Region Chair Mark Weintraub urged Canadians to address the festering injustice perpetrated against First Nations in order to facilitate justice for all.

“We need to reverse the tendency to add racism against Aboriginal peoples to the end of the list of concerns and congratulate ourselves for even thinking about these issues,” Weintraub told a packed audience of police, Crown counsel, politicians and others at the forum, which was sponsored by the Justice Institute of B.C. “Rather, we could benefit by considering how relations with Aboriginal peoples perhaps provided a template for how subsequent minority populations have been treated.”

Weintraub spoke of the history of discrimination against Aboriginal Canadians and praised the communities’ patience.

“In light of all this,” Weintraub said, “we should think ourselves fortunate that there still remains a wellspring of generosity within Aboriginal communities to meet any sincere attempt at reconciliation.”

Canadian Jewish Congress article

Antisemitic materials show up at Toronto universities, BC’s Fraser Valley Antisemitic flyers landed on three of Canada’s largest university campuses in the Greater Toronto area last month, while extremist flyers were passed around in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley area.

In both cases, the materials are believed to have originated with white supremacist groups in the U.S.

CJC Ontario Region was notified by staff at Hillel of Greater Toronto when the pamphlets, entitled Jewish Supremacism Unmasked, were discovered on the campuses of Ryerson University, University of Toronto and York University. Their content was “graphic, hateful and comprises deeply painful themes of classic antisemitism coupled with radical anti-Israel vitriol,” said Hillel Executive Director Zac Kaye.

CJCONT was in touch with University administrators and security at all three campuses, as well as with Toronto and York Regional Police Services. “We were most concerned with limiting the spread of the pamphlets and minimizing their impact on all students on campus,” noted CJCONT Regional Director and General Counsel Steven Shulman.

In British Columbia, CJC Pacific Region expressed its condemnation for extremist literature that was distributed in the Fraser Valley. CJC, PR remains in contact with local police about this incident. Police have not yet identified those responsible for distributing the material, whose content targets immigrants and immigration and which appear to originate from a Virginia-based white supremacist group.

"The danger in materials like these lies in the fact that this type of clearly mean-spirited attack exploits ignorance and pre-existing prejudice,” said CJC, PR Chair Mark Weintraub, who noted that B.C.’s Hate Crime Team will investigate to determine whether Criminal Code charges for promotion of hatred should be laid.

“We cannot permit those with ignorant minds and hard hearts to harm our fellow Canadians,” he added.

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