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The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has dismissed a complaint of Islamophobia against Maclean's, a weekly magazine.(The Week)(Brief article)

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The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has dismissed a complaint of Islamophobia against Maclean's, a weekly magazine. Good news? Not really. The dismissal was based on the wording of Ontario's human-rights code, which unmistakably protects printed material. The corresponding codes of other Canadian provinces, and the Canadian federal code, contain no such protections, and the Islamists have open complaints lodged with them, too--so that Maclean's is by no means off the hook. The OHRC's own dismissal was grudging, sternly denouncing ...

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