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    Keegstra Case (Plain-Language Summary)

    Jim Keegstra was a secondary school teacher in rural Alberta. He was charged with a hate crime in 1984 after he taught antisemitic propaganda to his students. He was found guilty in 1985. But he launched repeated appeals. He argued that the Criminal Code violated his freedom of expression. The landmark case (R. v. Keegstra) set an important legal precedent. It tested the balance between the right to freedom of speech outlined in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the law’s limits on hate speech laid out in the Criminal Code. The case came before the Supreme Court of Canada in 1990 and 1996. The Court ruled against Keegstra. It ruled that Canada’s hate laws imposed a “reasonable limit” on a person’s freedom of expression. This article is a plain-language summary of the Keegstra Case. If you would like to read about this topic in more depth, please see our full-length entry: Keegstra Case.

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  • Macleans

    Keegstra's Conviction Confirmed

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 11, 1996. Partner content is not updated. "Moles only come out in the dark when no one is watching. Jews only do their deeds when no one is watching. A mole when mad, will strike back and have no mercy when disturbed. Jews strike at any time and have NO mercy." That excerpt from an examination answer penned by an Eckville, Alta.

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    Kidnapping

    Kidnapping, historically, indicated the seizing and carrying away of children to make them slaves or servants or for some other nefarious purpose; for example, the marriage of an infant heiress to acquire a claim to her property.

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  • Macleans

    Kids' Safety and Sexual Predators

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on February 10, 1997. Partner content is not updated. She bears the burden of it still, more than a year after finally summoning the courage to reveal her terrible secret. So call her Carol. It is not her real name but it does offer whatever small comfort anonymity can provide.

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  • Macleans

    Killer Stalking Edmonton Prostitutes

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on May 23, 2005. Partner content is not updated. KATHY KING sat in the living room of her middle-class EDMONTON home last week, reliving yet again the horror of losing a daughter to a serial killer, or killers, stalking the city's street prostitutes.

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    Kindler Case

    In the Kindler case (1991), the majority of judges on the Supreme Court ruled that the Canadian procedure in extradition matters did not violate section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms which specifies that everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person.

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  • Macleans

    King Hussein (Obituary)

    When the Qureish, King Hussein's private jet, touched down at Amman airport, the Jordanian monarch was not at his usual place in the pilot's seat. He lay instead on a bed in the back of the plane, racked by fever, exhausted by the long flight.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on February 15, 1999

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  • Macleans

    Klein's Controversial Health-Care Reform

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on April 3, 2000. Partner content is not updated. Sitting in his wood-panelled office at the Alberta legislature, Ralph Klein contemplates the political fire storm raging outside his door.

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    Krever Inquiry

    The Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada, also known as the Krever Inquiry, was a public investigation of the Canadian blood system, which had been contaminated with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus during the 1980s. (See also Aids.) In 1993, a public inquiry into the Canadian blood system was established and Justice Horace Krever was named commissioner. The infection of thousands of Canadians with (HIV) and hepatitis C is Canada's worst- ever preventable public health disaster. It has also become one of its most prolonged legal sagas, featuring a high-profile public inquiry, almost $10 billion in legal claims and a criminal investigation.

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  • Macleans

    Krever Report Released

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on December 8, 1997. Partner content is not updated. They still serve up doughnuts and juice afterward. Otherwise, much has changed for anyone giving blood at a Red Cross clinic in Canada. The questions are chastening. Have you ever paid for sex, a nurse asks.

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  • Macleans

    Kurdish Terrorist Captured

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 1, 1999. Partner content is not updated.To most Turks, Abdullah Ocalan is a monster responsible for the deaths of innocent men, women and children in a fierce guerrilla war.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on March 1, 1999

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  • Macleans

    Kyoto Accord Opposition Growing

    In Alberta political circles, Lorne Taylor is sometimes referred to as the "egghead redneck." It is a mark of the man that Taylor, who is Alberta's environment minister and who holds a Ph.D. in educational psychology, takes more umbrage at the first half of that moniker than the latter.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on October 14, 2002

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    Labour Canada

    Labour Canada, established 1900 as the Department of Labour under the Conciliation Act to "aid in the prevention and settlement of trade disputes." In 1994, it became a ministry within the newly created Department of Human Resources Development.

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    Labour Law

    Labour law governs collective bargaining and industrial relations among employers, their unionized employees and trade unions. In Canada a distinction is commonly made between labour law narrowly defined in this way and employment law, the law of individual employment relationships, comprising the common law of master and servant and supervening statutory enactments governing the workplace. In England, labour law describes both, and of course a close relationship exists between them. In most provinces these matters are covered in separate statutes, but the Canada Labour Code is Parliament's major enactment governing the workplace for industries within federal jurisdiction, and regulates labour standards and occupational health and safety.

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    Labour Market

    The labour market is a generalized concept denoting the interaction between the supply (number of persons available for work) and the demand (number of jobs available) and the wage rate.

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