- Tri-City Skins
Tri-City Skins was an
Ontario -basedwhite power group active from 1997 to 2002 in theKitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge area.James Scott Richardson was the group's most visible member, and in October 2001, police believed that Tri-City Skins had 25 members in southwestern Ontario. [ [http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2001/10/03/racists011003.html "Racist accused of threatening Jews, Muslims"] ,CBC News ,Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , 3 October 2001] [http://www.bnaibrith.ca/publications/audit2002/interim2002.html 2002 Interim Audit of Antisemitic Incidents] ,B'nai Brith Canada, 2002] Some members of the Tri-City Skins were alleged to have engaged in a campaign of intimidation, assault,vandalism and other property crimes. Some members have been arrested and charged with possession of illegal weapons and drug possession for the purpose of trafficking. [ [http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2001-11-29/news_story7.html "Skinheads On The March: Attacks in Kitchener have anti-racists worried"] , Stuart Duncan,NOW (magazine) , 29 November 2001]Tri-City Skins operated a website that led to a complaint about its promotion of racial hatred. [ [http://www.queensu.ca/humanrights/hreb/Cybercrime/Kubashian.htm "Queen’s Human Rights Bulletin #7: Hatred and Contempt (The Kubashian Case)"] , Queen’s Human Rights Bulletin, June 2007] The Tri-City Skins' website was hosted by Affordable-Space.com, which was the
Internet service provider ofAlexan Kulbashian (a.k.a. Alex Krause), formerwebmaster of theCanadian Ethnic Cleansing Team . [http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/03/10/supremacists060310.html "White supremacists fined for spreading hate on the internet"] ,CBC News ,Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , 10 March 2006] [http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/view_html.asp?doid=661&lg=_e&isruling=0 Warman v. Kulbashian Decision] Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, 10 March 2006] LawyerRichard Warman filed a federal human rights complaint against the website and other named respondents. OnMarch 10 ,2006 , theCanadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled that Richardson and Kulbashian were guilty of violating theCanadian Human Rights Act , and ordered the pair to pay $8,000 in fines and compensation. Kulbashian's Internet service provider was fined an additional $3,000. This case marked the first time in Canadian history that an Internet service provider had been found guilty of hosting a website promoting hatred against visible minorities. A complaint against the Tri-City Skins organization was dismissed, since Warman failed to prove that the group existed outside of the website.Footnotes
External links
* [http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2001-11-29/news_story7.html Skinheads on the March]
* [http://www.gdmc.org/gdmc_photos/REPORT_HATE_CRIMES_2003.doc Issues Analysis: Hate and Bias Incidents in Southern Ontario (2003)] Word Doc.
* [http://www.cjnews.com/pastIssues/02/feb21-02/main.asp Web site Urges Violence]
* [http://www.recomnetwork.org/articles/04/11/19/2220256.shtml Canadian Ethnic Cleansing Team and the Tri-City Skins]
* [http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/view_html.asp?doid=660&lg=_e&isruling=1 Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling: January 30, 2006]
* [http://images.indymedia.org/imc/ontario/april01_kwblindspot.pdf Racism alive and well in K - W] Pdf. document
* [http://images.indymedia.org/imc/ontario/kwblindspot_sept2001.pdf Anti-racist activists disrupt neo-Nazi celebration at Walper Pub] Pdf. document
* [http://www.canadiancontent.ca/articles/022802racism.html The New Generation of Organised Racialism in Canada]
* [http://www.bnaibrith.ca/audit2004_Cap6.html 2004 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents]
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