The organizers behind the upcoming G20 summit are calling on doctors to help out, treating detained protesters. They've also managed to write this in an email: “I am assuming that these patients are a fairly young, healthy population, and some of whom will probably claim factitious (sic) injury as part of their tactics,” the email continued.
Sounds like an attempt to interfere and colour the judgment of the doctors at the summit, according to Nathalie Des Rosiers of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, who said this: “In our view, this is an attempt to interfere with proper medical decision making and this could lead to serious injuries and misdiagnosis of serious injuries.”
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Profile of Ayaan Hirsi Ali in the Toronto Star's Insight section. It's unfortunate that Ali has drawn the wrong lessons from her experiences. Rather than looking at the issue historically - recognizing the legacy of imperialism and the role of economic deprivation - she seeks to condemn Muslims. She is a conservative who works at a right-wing think-tank and is married to the right-wing historian, Niall Ferguson. Very unfortunate, because she could have used her personal experiences to call for a progressive movement, a more tolerant world. Not one where, according to her, some cultures are superior to others.
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From today's Toronto Star: "A new report based on 2005 Census data being released Thursday, shows that visible minorities in Ontario are far more likely to live in poverty, have trouble finding a job and earn less in the workplace."
It also found that:
"• Workers from visible minority groups faced unemployment rates of 8.7 per cent compared to 5.8 per cent for all Ontario workers.
• Visible minority workers were paid 77.5 cents for every dollar a white worker earned.
• Visible minority families were three times more likely to live in poverty, with poverty rates of 18.7 per cent, compared to 6 per cent for white families."
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