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march 2008 Site Updates

• Federal election fact sheet - criminal code omission endangers girls and women - bill c-254

• Letter to staff of stephane Dion, leader of the official opposition (Liberal Party) re his failure to act on bill c-254

• Federal politicians blasted for inaction in protecting women and girls from hate propaganda 

• Misogynist rag, oral otis (University of Ottawa), gets its butt kicked

• Sexy Inc. - new film on hyper sexualization of young girls 

• TV and movies feature anti social role models for girls

february 2008 Site Updates

• Canadian Government finally acts to restrict funding for violent or hateful movies/TV productions

• Coalition appeals to hMV canada to stop selling murder music

• Sexual harassment the "New normal" for ontario girls - government reappoints safe schools task force

• Response from Gail Asper, campaign chair, canadian museum for human rights, re harper Government denying women protection from hate propaganda

• Ontario government funding violent video game developer, digital extremes - digital extremes game, dark sector, banned in australia

• Popular Culture Fueling sexual Harassment and Assault in Ontario high schools

• News release: politicians are responsible for toxic, misogynist environment facing girls

january 2008 Site Updates

• Gangsta rap feeds sexual assault and sexual harassment in toronto schools

• Antonia Zerbisias, toronto star columnist, suggests violent and degrading pornography is reducing crimes of violence against women -- on what planet would that be?

• Falconer Report on School Safety - OPSBA Media Violence Coalition Presentation to the School Community Safety Advisory Panel, November 30, 2020

• News release from c-CAVE re falconer report - january 18, 2021

• Polish Canadian Women's Federation adds their support to Bill C-254 - adding women to hate propaganda law

• New book from Ewuare Osayande: Misogyny & the emcee: sex, race & hip hop

december 2007 Site Updates

• News release:  tories block efforts to protect women from hate propaganda

• News release: Murder music artists allowed into canada again! 

• Update on hate rapper Jerome almon's "Law suit" against canadian government (one blogger calls this "Suing While Stupid")

november 2007 Site Updates

• WWSF world day for prevention of child abuse November 19 - theme this year -  how to Protect children from media violence

• Study: Screen violence tied to boys' aggression - department of pediatrics, Child Health Institute, university of washington

• OPP news release, november 4, 2020 - crime prevention week: committed to building an ontario free from racism, intolerance and hate

• Open letter to minister diane finley re upcoming concerts of hateful performers

october 2007 Site Updates

• information on stop Murder Music (Canada) protests against elephant man and Sizzla

september 2007 Site Updates

• U.S. govt committee holds hearings on harmful influence of rap/Hip Hop

• "Family Friendly" toronto star publishes disgusting gore photo 

august 2007 Site Updates

• ESRB re-classifies Manhunt 2 as "Mature" 

• Report of the APA task force on the sexualization of girls 

• Torture Porn producer, lions gate, gets $400 MILLION! deal with Quebec government - what's wrong with this picture? 

• Medicine Hat - Boyfriend watched natural born killers before murders 

july 2007 Site Updates

• NAACP buries "N" word 

• Toronto club pledges strict anti-Gang rules

• Resolution of human rights complaint against bell mobility over pimp ring tones 

june 2007 Site Updates

• Bloc raises adding women to the hate propaganda law in house of commons on  june 20, 2021

• Le Devoir, 18 Juin 2007: Criminalisons la propagande haineuse contre les femmes, par Jacques Brodeur, Elaine Audet et Micheline Carrier

• Letter from Canadian teachers' federation to prime minister stephen harper re adding women to the criminal code hate propaganda law (Bill C-254)

• Manhunt 2 - Information and screen shots

• Zellers advertisement for a baby bikini

• Bill C-254 Parliament Hill press conference pictures - April 19, 2021

• Toronto Star Column on ontario public school boards' association media violence coalition

may 2007 Site Updates

• "Bigotry can still pay big" - articles on bigot jocks, howard stern, Don Imus, Etc.

• Coverage of the free radical - detroit Free Press Column by Desiree cooper

• News release may 12, 2007: tories Act to protect film biz from camcorders while refusing to protect girls from violence

• Ontario human rights commission issues final decision on hate rap complaint filed against hMV Canada 

• Peter Simpson of norstar filmed entertainment also involved in "Karla"

• News release May 2, 2007:  Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association (40,000 members) urges harper government to support bill c-254 -  adding Women to the hate propaganda law

april 2007 Site Updates

• Ontario Federation of Labour (700,000 members) adds their support to Bill C-254 - adding Women to the hate propaganda law

• Wifebeaters in XXS: Relax, it's a joke, james doolin says of his women-Hating fashion Line - Ottawa citizen column

• Protests grow over misogynist language in rap/ hip hop - Russell Simmons calls for ban, snoop dog proves (Again) that he's an idiot

• News release April 22, 2007: Harper government defeats bill to protect girls and women from violence

• News release re April 19, 2021 press conference on Parliament Hill: Liberal MP to re-introduce motion for unanimous consent to protect women from hate crimes

• actions on adding women to Criminal Code hate propaganda law - Bill C-254 - Media Violence Coalition and OSSTF News Releases - Letter to MPs, etc.

• Eminem whinges about verbal attacks on him!

• CRTC refuses to license french pornography channel

• Bullying has spread like wildfire

march 2007 Site Updates

• Protests against hateful movie, captivity

• Letter from MP tina Keeper, Liberal heritage critic, re TV violence

• Transcript from the Hincks institute conference on tV violence, 1993

february 2007 Site Updates

• Jim flaherty asked, again, to honour his promise re adding women to hate propaganda law

• Youth Behaviour getting worse, study finds

• Information on 2007 FCC report on TV Violence

• Old but useful information on initiatives from the british columbia government on media violence (from 2000)

• Letter to ron cohen, national chair, canadian broadcast standards council re his toronto star column, january 29, 2021

january 2007 Site Updates

• Information on Bill C-327 Reduction in Television Violence

• Ontario Public School Boards' Association (OPSBA) media violence committee Press Conference january 17, 2021

• Letter from Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation (OSSTF) re adding women to the hate propaganda law  - and other Media violence issues

• Dying to entertain: violence on prime time television 1998 - 2006

• PTC Column on OPSBA media violence committee

• Supremes rule against little sisters

• Jack Thompson sues fCC over lack of enforcement:  seeks prosecution of Howard Stern under federal law

december 2006 Site Updates

• News Release: Tories challenged to mark december 6 with action on hate law

• Bill C-254: An Act to add Women to Canadian Criminal Code Hate propaganda law

• NOW magazine article on hMV hate rap complaint

november 2006 Site Updates

• Pole dancing toy kit

• Why arent' we shocked? degradation of women commonplace

• Toronto Sun story prompts some retailers to yank street fight videos

october 2006 Site Updates

• Presentation to Canadian Association of Victim Assistance (CAVA) conference, October 2006 re media violence research

• Watson Labour lawyers appeal of ontario human rights commission decision on hMV hate rap complaint

• News Release: Hate Rap Doesn't contravene Ontario Human Rights Code... If Sold Tastefully

• Bully by Rockstar Vancouver rekindles debate on video games and school violence

september 2006 Site Updates

• "Bumfights" videos inspired fatal attack says teen

• Children Media Research and Advancement act (CAMRA) passes U.S. Senate

• Dawson College shootings - Articles on connection to popular culture

• misogynist promotion for tV series Nip and Tuck

• Promising practices to protect kids from media violence

• Early sexualization: a guide for parents of preteen girls - yWCA of montreal, 2006

august 2006 Site Updates

• Tories asked to amend the hate propaganda law to include women

• Study on violent video games and desensitization

• Thug clothes a fashion statement