Alex Linder
August 16th, 2007, 03:28 PM
COMMUNITY: Calgary’s deputy mayor rebukes newspaper of hate literature distribution, demands apology
(AlbertaIndex, August 16, Thursday) --- Calgary city’s deputy mayor, Diane Marie Colley-Urquhart, wants police to track down the racist group responsible for inserting hate literature against ethnic minorities in a free community newspaper this week.
Photocopies of a typed message blaming ethnic minorities for a recent spate of murders in the city were allegedly slipped into a popular weekly newspaper. It is not known how many copies of the hate message were distributed when it was brought to the attention of police.
Ms Colley-Urquhart, who is also alderman for the city’s ward 13, rebuked the publisher for its role in helping to deliver the propaganda of Bill Noble and his racist Aryan Nation group.
She said police must interview the publisher to find out how its newspaper was used to deliver hate literature and to ensure that this will not happen again.
“The newspaper’s publisher must apologize to the people of Calgary and to its minorities. It is their responsibility to ensure that people don’t use the newspaper to distribute hate messages and illegal materials,” she said.
According to the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, Noble is currently awaiting trial in British Columbia for charges on willful promotion of hatred. Noble, 31, is a former resident of Fort St John.
Ms Colley Urquhart spoke at yesterday’s GlobalFest’s Human Rights Forum at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary.
The main speaker at yesterday’s event was Prof Ratna Ghosh from the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University’s Edcuation Faculty. Her topic, “Promoting Multicultural Education”, covered the need to educate Canadians to respect and accept differences.
“Diversity is a fact, so use it!” she said to applause from the audience. Canada’s workforce would increasingly consist of immigrants and minorities as the country’s natural birth rate is too low to meet the growing demands of its economy.
She said that minority races are expected to account for 24% of Calgary’s population in 2017, up from 18% now.
http://www.albertaindex.com/content/view/203/1/
(AlbertaIndex, August 16, Thursday) --- Calgary city’s deputy mayor, Diane Marie Colley-Urquhart, wants police to track down the racist group responsible for inserting hate literature against ethnic minorities in a free community newspaper this week.
Photocopies of a typed message blaming ethnic minorities for a recent spate of murders in the city were allegedly slipped into a popular weekly newspaper. It is not known how many copies of the hate message were distributed when it was brought to the attention of police.
Ms Colley-Urquhart, who is also alderman for the city’s ward 13, rebuked the publisher for its role in helping to deliver the propaganda of Bill Noble and his racist Aryan Nation group.
She said police must interview the publisher to find out how its newspaper was used to deliver hate literature and to ensure that this will not happen again.
“The newspaper’s publisher must apologize to the people of Calgary and to its minorities. It is their responsibility to ensure that people don’t use the newspaper to distribute hate messages and illegal materials,” she said.
According to the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, Noble is currently awaiting trial in British Columbia for charges on willful promotion of hatred. Noble, 31, is a former resident of Fort St John.
Ms Colley Urquhart spoke at yesterday’s GlobalFest’s Human Rights Forum at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary.
The main speaker at yesterday’s event was Prof Ratna Ghosh from the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University’s Edcuation Faculty. Her topic, “Promoting Multicultural Education”, covered the need to educate Canadians to respect and accept differences.
“Diversity is a fact, so use it!” she said to applause from the audience. Canada’s workforce would increasingly consist of immigrants and minorities as the country’s natural birth rate is too low to meet the growing demands of its economy.
She said that minority races are expected to account for 24% of Calgary’s population in 2017, up from 18% now.
http://www.albertaindex.com/content/view/203/1/