Ontario Press Council rejects complaint.Toronto--After dragging the matter on for a year, the Ontario Press Council (OPC (1) (OpenGL Performance Characterization) A project group within GPC that manages OpenGL benchmarks. OPC endorses the Viewperf and GLperf benchmarks. Viewperf was created by IBM and OPC provides viewsets for it, which are combinations of tests using specific ) has decided not even to consider Mr. Tony Gosgnach's complaint about an article and two columns by the Globe and Mail's columnist Heather Mallick Heather Mallick (born 1959) is a Toronto-based liberal columnist and author who, until December, 2005, wrote for the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail. She now writes a bi-weekly column for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's website [1] as well as a . Among other things, Mallick had urged that Henry Morgentaler Henry Morgentaler, M.D., LL.D.(hc), (born March 19, 1923, in Łódź, Poland) is a Canadian gynecologist and pioneering abortionist from Montreal. Morgentaler is a Holocaust survivor. be given the Order of Canada The Order of Canada is Canada's highest civilian honour within the Canadian system of honours, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the Order's Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means "(those) desiring a better country" (Hebrews 11:16). ; incorrectly described a 12-week-old fetus fetus, term used to describe the unborn offspring in the uterus of vertebrate animals after the embryonic stage (see embryo). In humans, the fetal stage begins seven to eight weeks after fertilization of the egg, when the embryo assumes the basic shape of the newborn as a "dot"; labelled pro-life Members of Parliament as "stooges" and "daft"; depicted abortuaries as places of merriment and music; and suggested that pro-life Canadians are prone to violence. In a March 5, 2004, letter, the OPC said it "saw the column as falling within the bounds of its policy statement, which says it believes it is appropriate for columnists to exercise wide latitude in expressing their opinions, no matter how controversial or unpopular the opinions may be." However, the original article, "Why doesn't this man have the Order of Canada?" Globe, Jan. 18, '03, was neither a column nor an opinion piece. It was published in the form of a biography, complete with numerous photographs, on the front page of the newspaper's Focus section. The apparent intent was to portray Morgentaler as a hero, overcoming opposition from religion, politics, law and pro-life Canadians in his quest to win "rights" for women. "Most people in his position would have received their Order of Canada years ago. His omission is puzzling," wrote Mallick. Comment The ruling should be kept in mind for future reference when homosexual activists attack the rights of Canadian writers This is a list of Canadian literary figures, including poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars. Writers are only to be listed here if they already have a Wikipedia article. who oppose their "way of lift." |
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