Modified On August 14, 2012
A Western Standard blog entry contains all the links.
And don’t forget, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal still has a chance to uphold the complaint against Maclean’s. But I think they, too, just might opt for dismissal.
Oh well. The BCHRT is also busy investigating a comedian for ranting like a lunatic at some heckling audience members. Even Warren Kinsella thinks that case is making it hard to defend the Tribunal.
Ezra Levant also blogs about the decision. And indirectly mentions comedian Guy Earle.
Every single section 13 case the CHRC has brought to the CHRT has resulted in a conviction, and there’s no reason to think the Maclean’s case would have bucked that trend. The CHRC blinked, and decided not to prosecute. They knew that to do so would have been political suicide. Better to keep going after powerless, and often lawyerless, targets.
We contacted Earle and, so far at least, he is lawyerless.