Saw this on a site while travelling a month or so ago - while waiting to check out of the room. Read it fast, I hope it's bogus - too scary to be true.
Tho the stories sound just crazy enough to be true, but let me await confirmation or no from a bonafide Canadian.
1) A comedy club comic is doing his act late nite in Vancuover. Two very drunk lesbians begin to heckle him - viciously.
He responds, and notes their obvious gayness in his counter barbs.
The gay gals later contact one of what seem to be ubiquitous Human Rights Commissions all over Canada, and complain abojut the comic's insensitive and hateful behavior. (Tho I wonder how someone like Don Rickles would have savaged them if he'd been the target of their venom?)
The Human Rights Commssion ordered the comic to pay a hefty fine.
These commissions seem to be all over Canada. Not just to enforc fairness in employment and housing, but to act as a kind of Thought Police, to punish any manisfestation of what they might deem to be racism, sexism, genderism, ageism ---- all the usual proscribed isms.
2) This is even worse.
Guy owns a bar in Central Canada. A potential customer enters, smoking a joint. (It's apparently legal to do so in Canada - which is good - if you have a doctor's prescription)
Bar owners regular customer's complain - and remind the bar owner that smoking in bars is prohibited in Canada.
Owner tell pothead stranger to douse the weed. Smoker refuses. Owner escorts him out of the bar.
Weedman goes to the Human Rights Commission to complain. HRC orders bar owner to let the man in to smoke his "medicine."
But the province version of the Alcoholic Beverage Commission tells him that if he lets a smoker - any kind of smoker - puff in his bar, they'll pull his licence.
So, bar owner can refuse to allow potty mouth into his tavern, and get whacked with a big fine by the HRC.
Or, let the guy into puff, and lose his liquor licence.
Insanity a la mode.
I'm hoping a Canadian will post here and tell me that these were just another Net hoax, and such absurdities don't happen in Canada.