Human Rights a Day

Join me every day for Human Rights a Day. It's a journey through 365 Days of Human Rights Celebrations and Tragedies That Inspired Canada and the World. The short 2 minute readings are from my book Steps in the Rights Direction. Meet people who didn't want to be special but chose to stick their neck out and stand up for what they believed and in doing so changed our world. There's still room for you to make a difference. Start each day with something that will inspire and motivate you to take a chance - to make the world better for us all.

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April 5, 1917 - British Columbia Women Vote

British Columbia women granted the right to vote.Canadian women were never formally and legally denied the right to vote until the 1867 British North America Act spelled out the exclusion. It was now up to the provinces to overturn that, and they did, one by one, initially for white women. Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta led the way in 1916. In British Columbia, the Political Equality League presented Conservative Premier Sir Richard McBride with a petition of 10,000 signatures in 1912. When ...

Apr 05, 2017•2 min

April 4, 1968 - Martin Luther King

Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated.Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. A bright student, he skipped grades nine and 12 and entered college at age 15. He graduated with a bachelor of arts, a bachelor of divinity, and a Ph.D. in theology by 1955, not to mention many awards and recognition from fellow students. During his studies, at the age of only 19, King was ordained as a Baptist minister at the Ebenezer Baptist church in Atlant...

Apr 04, 2017•3 min

April 3, 1992 - Congregation of Christian Brothers

A 25-year wait for apology ends for orphanage’s abuse victims.The Roman Catholic lay order of the Congregation of Christian Brothers began running an orphanage in St. John’s, Newfoundland in 1892. The first formal complaints of sexual, physical and psychological abuse were levelled in 1970. Newfoundland police investigated the first serious allegations in 1975. After 12 years of stalls and cover-ups, former Catholic priest James Hickey went to jail for five years; others followed. When more vict...

Apr 03, 2017•2 min

April 2, 1998 - Delwin Vriend

Sexual orientation is “read in” to Alberta’s human rights legislation.Delwin Vriend worked as a laboratory coordinator for King’s College in Edmonton, Alberta, until fired when the institution discovered he was gay. When Vriend filed a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Commission, he was told that sexual orientation was not a protected ground in Alberta. Vriend and others took their case to court, where the judge agreed there should be protection for gay men and lesbians. The court “read i...

Apr 02, 2017•3 min

April 1, 1990 - Yukon Aboriginals

Yukon aboriginals sign massive land claim deal with Ottawa.Fourteen aboriginal bands, through the Council for Yukon Indians, negotiated with the federal government to settle land claims in the Yukon Territory for 17 years. Although the council had hoped to win the entire territory, it finally signed a deal on April 1, 1990. The bands would receive $232 million and 41,440 square kilometres of land, representing 8.6 per cent of all the Yukon Territory. The parties had reached an agreement in princ...

Apr 01, 2017•2 min

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