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WEBCAST: Offense, respect, ethics and the law
Presentations and Papers
Ethics and human rights law: What role ought human rights law to play vis-a-vis offensive speech?
By Janet Keeping, presented at Freedom of Expression and Discrimination under Alberta’s Human Rights Law, University of Calgary, October 29, 2009
What is an appropriate role for human rights law vis-a-vis offensive speech? What ought the law in this area to be?
By Heather MacIntosh, presented to the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission, Red Deer, AB, October 9, 2009
What principles, in our view, ought to guide the Commission in aiming for fair representation?
What principles, in our view, ought to guide the Commission in aiming for fair representation?
The importance of human rights
By Janet Keeping, presented at the AIDS Calgary 2009 AGM, August 25, 2009
By Janet Keeping, presented at the AIDS Calgary 2009 AGM, August 25, 2009
We can’t shy away from defending the primacy of human rights, but we should always defend them in as respectful a manner as possible.
The importance of human rights for policy on temporary foreign labour
By Janet Keeping, presented at Globalfest, August 18, 2009.
By Janet Keeping, presented at Globalfest, August 18, 2009.
There is nothing more important than human rights, that is, at the most general of levels – how we should treat each other.
Recommended changes to s.3 of the Alberta Human Rights Act
By Dan Shapiro, presented to the Alberta Press Council, June 6, 2009.
The Sheldon Chumir Foundation recommends that s.3 of Alberta's Human Rights Act be amended to its pre-1996 wording.
Bill 44: The good, the bad and the ugly
By Dan Shapiro, presented to the Board of AIDS Calgary Awareness Association, May 28, 2009.
Bill 44 will likely have a chilling effect on sexual health education.
Freedom of expression in Canada: Offensive speech and the limits of tolerance
By Dan Shapiro, presented at Tolerance/Intolerance, Difference/Indifference, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey BC, March 28, 2009.
How tolerant should we be of speech which expresses intolerance?
The ethics of offensive speech
By Dan Shapiro, presented to the Alberta Press Council, June 6, 2009.
The Sheldon Chumir Foundation recommends that s.3 of Alberta's Human Rights Act be amended to its pre-1996 wording.
Bill 44: The good, the bad and the ugly
By Dan Shapiro, presented to the Board of AIDS Calgary Awareness Association, May 28, 2009.
Bill 44 will likely have a chilling effect on sexual health education.
Freedom of expression in Canada: Offensive speech and the limits of tolerance
By Dan Shapiro, presented at Tolerance/Intolerance, Difference/Indifference, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey BC, March 28, 2009.
How tolerant should we be of speech which expresses intolerance?
The ethics of offensive speech
By Dan Shapiro, presented at Lord Beaverbrook High School CHANGE Day, Calgary, March 18, 2009.
Are there topics that need to be addressed even if they are likely to cause offense?
By Erin Power, presented at Lord Beaverbrook High School CHANGE Day, Calgary, March 18, 2009.
Responsible social media use requires a concrete understanding of the ethical and legal issues regarding privacy and over-exposure of information.
The ethics of 'reasonable accomodation' in the post secondary context
By Dan Shapiro, presented at Religious and Cultural Accomodation in the Post Secondary Context: Rights and Responsibilities, University of Calgary, March 17, 2009.
Just because we live in a diverse society, does it follow that we should protect and even promote this diversity in a post secondary context?
Ethics at the Energy and Utilities Board: Appearance or Reality?
By Janet Keeping, presented at First Global Conference on Ethics in Public Life, Salzburg, Austria, March 13-15, 2009.
For Canadians specifically, the warning is we must always be concerned that our ethical realities match our ethical appearances, which we are rather exceptionally good at constructing.
Verbal submission regarding Bill 52, Health Information Amendment Act, 2008 & Written submission
By Kelly Ernst, presented to the Standing Committee of the Alberta Legislative Assembly on Health, Edmonton, Feb. 4, 2009
We recommend that precautions are carefully considered and included in the amendments to ensure that measures are in place to protect both privacy and security of the person.
Relativism and our obligations to those outside Canada & PowerPoint
By Kelly Ernst, presented to the Standing Committee of the Alberta Legislative Assembly on Health, Edmonton, Feb. 4, 2009
We recommend that precautions are carefully considered and included in the amendments to ensure that measures are in place to protect both privacy and security of the person.
Relativism and our obligations to those outside Canada & PowerPoint
By Dan Shapiro, presented at York University Emerging Global Leaders Program, Barrie, ON, Jan. 24, 2009.
If you are a cultural relativist, you can't make sense of the notion of having ethical obligations to those outside your own culture or society.
By Janet Keeping, presented at Canadian Access and Privacy Association Conference, Ottawa, ON, Nov. 20, 2008.
We all know that corruption thrives in the absence of transparency.
What is ethical relativism?
By Dan Shapiro, presented to the Knights of the Round Table, Oct. 14, 2008.
By Dan Shapiro, presented to the Knights of the Round Table, Oct. 14, 2008.
If we say that all ethical standards are equal, then we have no grounds to criticize practices which we find abhorrent.
Racism at the door
By Heather MacIntosh, presented at Lord Beaverbrook High School CHANGE Day, March 13, 2008.
This session deals with the Global TV undercover investigation and news reports in 2004 and 2006 into allegations of racism at Calgary night clubs.
Cultural relativism and our obligations to those outside Canada
By Janet Keeping, Dan Shapiro, Katherine Austin-Evelyn, presented at Global Citizenship: Thinking Beyond Borders, University of Calgary, Nov. 24, 2007.
By Heather MacIntosh, presented at Lord Beaverbrook High School CHANGE Day, March 13, 2008.
This session deals with the Global TV undercover investigation and news reports in 2004 and 2006 into allegations of racism at Calgary night clubs.
Cultural relativism and our obligations to those outside Canada
By Janet Keeping, Dan Shapiro, Katherine Austin-Evelyn, presented at Global Citizenship: Thinking Beyond Borders, University of Calgary, Nov. 24, 2007.
Do Canadians have moral obligations to people in other parts of the world, and if so, what is the nature and scope of those obligations?
Gender and agriculture: Experience on a project in Angola
By Heather MacIntosh, presented to the Agricultural Institute of Canada, Nov. 2, 2007.
By Heather MacIntosh, presented to the Agricultural Institute of Canada, Nov. 2, 2007.
Canadians can learn from our experiences abroad in promoting gender equality in international development to inform our thinking at home.
Ethical leadership on reform of human rights law in Alberta
By Janet Keeping, presented at OutRights Human Rights Conference, Calgary, Apr. 2, 2007.
By Janet Keeping, presented at OutRights Human Rights Conference, Calgary, Apr. 2, 2007.
What would ethical leadership on reform of Alberta's human rights legislation look like in the wake of the Vriend decision?
By Megan Burrows, presented at OutRights Human Rights Conference, Calgary, Apr. 2, 2007.
The Foundation sees attitudes toward diversity and treatment of GLBT citizens in particular as a litmus test of ethical leadership in Canada.
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