Discrimination

Discrimination is the act of making unjustified distinctions between human beings based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they are perceived to belong. People may be discriminated on the basis of race, gender, age, religion, or sexual orientation, as well as other categories. Discrimination especially occurs when individuals or groups are unfairly treated in a way which is worse than other people are treated, on the basis of their actual or perceived membership in certain groups or social categories. It involves restricting members of one group from opportunities or privileges that are available to members of another …

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UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 12 November 2024 English

Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope met en lumière les actions entreprises par des universitaires en réponse à certains des appels à l’action de la Commission de vérité et réconciliation. …

of a minority group that suffered historical discrimination in Canada, or a new Canadian, we all inherit


DDN: Dundurn Press · 5 November 2024 English

“A tender, beautifully written essay collection that is about so much more than parenting a child with a disability.” — Erin Pepler, author of Send Me Into The Woods AloneA …

the real medical and societal challenges — discrimination, communication, low expectations, ableism


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 5 November 2024 English

Uncut explores the significance of the foreskin in contemporary culture The “uncut” penis is viewed by some as attractive or erotic, and by others as ugly or undesirable. Secular parents …

philosophical treatise, The Second Sexism: Discrimination against Men and Boys, arguing that circumcision god-need?. 35 David Benatar, The Second Sexism: Discrimination against Men and Boys (West Sussex: John Wiley


AUP: Athabasca University Press · 29 October 2024 English

This introductory human resource management (HRM) textbook provides students with an overview of the major domains of human resource management (the “how-to”) with a focus on the practical application of …

Practice of Human Resource Management in Canada discrimination. In this way, HR practitioners sometimes appear and thus constituted discrimination on the basis of gender. Gender discrimination was prohibited by British necessary to do the job and thus a basis on which discrimination is justified. The arbitrator hearing the case related injury prevention and compensation, • discrimination, harassment, and pay equity, and • information equal benefit without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 29 October 2024 English

A collection of memories chronicling love, grief, and a life lived on and off stage Raised on a farm and educated in a prairie Bible school, Layne Coleman escapes the …

had a feeling that I might be gay. Given the discrimination in society, I’d carried that worry quietly


DDN: Dundurn Press · 29 October 2024 English

“Honest and insightful, a testament to Japanese Canadian resilience.” — KERRI SAKAMOTO, author of Floating CityWhen the North American dream meets traditional Japanese conformity, two cultures collide. Does the past …

and stand up against hatred, intolerance and discrimination.3 Clearly, Grandpa is still watching over us


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Critic, translator, essayist, and gay man, Édouard Roditi (1910–1992) was a singular witness to the twentieth century. His writings over six decades are a unique account of a life lived …

entertained, however, legal reform and an end to discrimination are at the heart of his copious writings on


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 October 2024 English

Oil workers are often typecast as rough: embodying the toxic masculinity, racism, consumerist excess, and wilful ignorance of the extractive industries and petrostates they work for. But their poetry troubles …

Indigenous people, women, and people of colour face discrimination in the oil industry. They describe the power together, sharing and caring. There was no discrimination, crime, drugs, alcohol or welfare; just a plain


ULCC: Uniform Law Conference of Canada · 27 September 2024 English

RESOLVED: THAT the report of the working group on Drafting Conventions be accepted; and THAT the Drafting Conventions be adopted; and THAT, having adopted the Drafting Conventions, the ULCC recognizes …

In the PEI legislation, “harassment” and “discrimination” have been defined quite broadly. When the that wrongful conduct based on harassment, discrimination and violence should be within the scope of Reform Commission used “abuse” (harassment, discrimination and abuse), as opposed to “violence”? Ms. Khor


PMLQ: Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec · 25 September 2024 English

Emphasizing the effectiveness of the Northern Front, Nasrallah said, "The enemy labeling the situation in the north as the first historic defeat for 'Israel' is further evidence of our front's …

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, as identified by the International Court of


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