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The LINK Online, Sat. 25 June, 2016

Hosts this week are Carmel Kilkenny and Levon Sevunts.

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Poster to promote discussion of the problem of racism in Toronto.
© OCASI

Immigrant groups and the city of Toronto launched a poster and social media campaign to address racism in its many forms: xenophobia, Islamophhobia and general anti-immigrant sentiment. Before, and since Canada’s acceptance of over 27,000 Syrian refugees last year, there have been racist incidents. Now Toronto is confronting the issues. Lynn Desjardins spoke with Debbie Douglas, executive director of the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI) to hear more about the campaign with the motto, “Diversity is our Strength”.

The mostly French-speaking province of Quebec voted to create its own provincial long-gun registry after the federal government voted to scrap the national registry as costly and ineffective.
The mostly French-speaking province of Quebec will create its own long-gun registry after the federal government scrapped the national registry as costly and ineffective. © Evan Mitsui/CBC

Firearm regulation is a contentious issue in Canada. The province of Quebec recently passed a law which would eventually require all long-guns (rifles and shotguns)  to be individually registered with the provincial government. This comes after the federal government scrapped the national registry of long guns as being an excessively costly, and an ineffective way to increase public safety. Now one of Canada’s several firearms owner’s groups, the National Firearms Association (NFA), has launched a constitutional challenge to the Quebec law. Marc Montgomery speaks to Blair Hagen, executive vice-president of the NFA, to find out more about the challenge.

 Louise Arbour, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, smiles after having her star unveiled on Canada’s Walk of Fame in Toronto on Monday, June 8, 2015.
Louise Arbour smiles during another honour, as her star was unveiled on Canada’s ‘Walk of Fame’ in Toronto on Monday, June 8, 2015. © PC/Darren Calabrese

Louise Arbour, the noted Canadian jurist, was awarded the Tang Prize, a prestigious and lucrative international honour for her work in promoting the rule of law and championing human rights both in Canada and on the international scene. The prize was established in 2012 by Taiwanese billionaire and philanthropist Samuel Yin. He says he was inspired in part by the Nobel Prize. Arbour has been named laureate in the Rule of Law category. Levon Sevunts spoke with Louise Arbour, who has a long list of distinguished service. She was president and CEO of the International Crisis Group (ICG), the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and a Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Supreme Court of Ontario, and the Ontario Court of Appeal.

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