Cathay House restaurant owner Joe Chan is suing Winnipeg’s mayor over his decision to hold a holiday party for city council and staff at Hu’s Asian Bistro in December 2010, a restaurant Katz owned at the time.

Winnipeg mayor faces conflict of interest lawsuit
12:23 am, March 31st, 2013

Joe Chan, of Cathay House restaurant, has launched a lawsuit against the mayor.
Credits: Winnipeg Sun
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Mayor Sam Katz heads to court Tuesday to face a lawsuit, the loss of which could get him kicked out of office.

Cathay House restaurant owner Joe Chan is suing Winnipeg’s mayor over his decision to hold a holiday party for city council and staff at Hu’s Asian Bistro in December 2010, a restaurant Katz owned at the time.

Saudi-Arabia-Rules for a female only swimming pool.

Côte-des-Neiges under fire for offering gender-segregated swimming
Sessions an ‘infringment on rights’: Drainville
CBC News Posted: Jan 14, 2013 2:32 PM ET Last Updated: Jan 14, 2013 3:40 PM ET
Gender-segregated swimming hours should not be allowed, say Bernard Drainville, Quebec’s minister for democratic institutions. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) Facebook
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Gender-segregated swimming sessions at the Côte-des-Neiges sports centre have come under fire after an official complaint was filed with the borough.

Every Sunday, an hour is set aside for women-only swimming and another hour for men at the public swimming pool. The borough implemented the sessions 16 years ago at the request of some of its Muslim and Jewish citizens.

Montréal City Council Majority Leader Marvin Rotrand

September 23, 2012 4:20 PM

Mayor Anie Samson of Villeray-Saint-Michel-Parc-Extension

Council Session on Yom Kippur – Anie Samson and Vision Montreal must apologize to the Jewish community

MONTREAL, Sept. 23, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ – Montréal City Council Majority Leader Marvin Rotrand demanded that Mayor Anie Samson of Villeray-Saint-Michel-Parc-Extension formally apologize to Montréal’s Jewish Community for suggesting that the City Administration is seeking to impose a Jewish holiday on all city councillors.

“Anie Samson’s suggestions are absurd and offensive to the entire Jewish community. Ms. Samson must apologize publicly. The fact is, Montréal’s different mayors and administrations have, for the past three decades, always respected the holidays of the major religions throughout Montréal. Just as it would be unthinkable to hold a City Council meeting on December 25 or during Ramadan, we do not meet during the Jewish High Holy Day of Yom Kippur, which starts at sundown on Tuesday, September 25,” Mr. Rotrand noted.

Yafim Goikhberg
Publié par Delf Berg/Published by Delf Berg

Parole denied to LaSalle man serving 5-year term for defrauding immigrants
By Paul Cherry, THE GAZETTE September 11, 2012

MONTREAL — A man serving a five-year prison term for defrauding several immigrants while pretending to act as their consultant has been denied parole.

One might assume Yafim Goikhberg, 47, of LaSalle, was turned down because he has another case pending in which 149 new charges have been brought against him. But what was of even more concern to the Parole Board of Canada was that Goikhberg plans to work with immigrants again in the near future.

A screen shot of the blank spot on Ezra Levant’s website: no link, the plug pulled, presumably by Sun News Network.

Who’s censoring Ezra now? Has Sun News Network seen the light?
by david on September 12, 2012 in Hate Speech, Human Rights, Sun News Netwrok with 4 Comments

A screen shot of the blank spot on Ezra Levant’s website: no link, the plug pulled, presumably by Sun News Network. Below: Mr. Levant in full rhetorical flight.

Where is Ezra Levant’s Sun News Network rant on Roma immigration to Canada, which has been depicted as ethnic stereotyping to foment hate?

For that matter, where is the uncharacteristically silent Mr. Levant?

North York’s Antibes Community Centre receives ‘Priority Centre’ status — at last
Published on Sunday September 09, 2012

Video: Antibes Community centre
The Antibes Community Centre celebrates its new designation. This allows for more and cheaper and/or free programs for certain groups including seniors and children.

Morgan Campbell
Staff Reporter

The signs and balloons strung up around the Antibes Community Centre in North York heralded a “Grand Opening,” but they were a little misleading given that the facility has been serving local residents since 1999.

But Sunday did mark the start of a new era for the community centre located off Bathurst St., between Finch and Steeles Aves.

The celebration marked Antibes’ first day as one of 18 “priority centres” in the city. That designation, achieved after nearly two years of city hall wrangling, allows the facility to offer its services to children and seniors for free.