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Article: Human rights tribunal in Canada fines Holocaust-denying journalist
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- February 8, 1999
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency
02-08-1999
Human rights tribunal in Canada fines Holocaust-denying journalist
By Bill Gladstone
TORONTO, Feb. 7 (JTA) -- A Canadian human rights tribunal has fined a journalist some $2,000 for a series of articles that promoted anti-Semitism.
The articles written by Doug Collins, which included Holocaust-denial, "reinforce some of the most virulent forms of anti-Semitism," according to one of the members of the Vancouver tribunal.
The ruling marks the first time anyone has been found in violation of the anti-hate legislation that the province of British Columbia enacted as part of its human rights code in 1993.
Collins, a 78-year-old retired writer who still ...