The formal rights complaint to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal was submitted early last year. Old news by newspaper standards, but news to me nonetheless when it landed on my desk, belatedly, just the other day.I was accused of imperiling people’s lives and impinging on their freedoms by imploring the government to impose a vaccine mandate, mid-pandemic, in a column early last year.
This isn’t the first time I’ve been accused of all of the above. In fact, I’ve been tried, pilloried and convicted thousands of times already on Twitter — you know, the so-called “public square” that is also a podium for public hangings. But this was the real deal. Not disembodied online rage, but a formal personal complaint of outrage to the human rights tribunal.
The Star stands accused of being no mere influencer, but an inciter and poisoner of public opinion — with“This goes beyond the newspaper’s usual tactics of whipping up ugly sentiments,” she argues. “This ‘piece’ written by Martin Regg Cohn and published by the Toronto Star is advocating the persecution of and enforced vaccination of a group of people such as myself who do not wish to participate in this medical experiment.”“These actions are against human rights.
(In fact, the 1947 Nuremberg Code emerged from the military tribunal of Nazi doctors accused of war crimes by conducting experiments on concentration camp prisoners without their consent. By contrast, COVID vaccines were tested in voluntary trials and then validated by medical authorities for distribution amidst a massive