Man brings complaint against Mississauga for racially-insensitive team names

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Man brings complaint against Mississauga for racially-insensitive team names
THE CANADIAN PRESS
First posted: Monday, November 21, 2016 08:19 AM EST
TORONTO - The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario is set to hear a case today of a man who alleges indigenous names and symbols used by some Mississauga hockey teams demonstrate institutional racism.
Brad Gallant has brought his complaint against the City of Mississauga, and says it should not provide funding to teams with racially insensitive names and logos, like the Mississauga Chiefs or Lorne Park Ojibwa.
He also says the city should remove banners featuring the teams’ names and logos from municipal buildings.
In Ontario, he says, there are seven teams with racially insensitive names or logos, and five of them are in Mississauga.
In his complaint, Gallant says “the institutional racism at the City of Mississauga is responsible” for allowing the names to remain.
Gallant is a member of the Qualipu Mi’kmaq First Nation, and in his complaint he says his two daughters are both goalies.
“My kids can surf the Internet and see the culture mocked continuously on sports websites,” he wrote in his complaint to the tribunal. “My children’s peers can see that harassment, abuse and bullying is not tolerated against any group, so long as they arrived in North America after the 15th century.”
This isn’t the first time this issue has come up in Ontario.
Just last month, a judge quashed an activist’s bid to prevent the Cleveland Indians from using its team name and “Chief Wahoo” logo when playing in Toronto.
Man brings complaint against Mississauga for racially-insensitive team names | T

 

[Danbones]

i am offended they named toronto after indian word, and also call it GTA after grand theft auto...
who do I sue?

 

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'Personal stand' against team logos deemed racist
By Jenny Yuen, Toronto Sun
First posted: Monday, November 21, 2016 01:15 PM EST | Updated: Monday, November 21, 2016 07:05 PM EST
An indigenous father is taking a “personal stand” at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario to rid Mississauga minor hockey of what he deems to be racist logos, mascots and team names.
The three-day hearing started Monday, following Brad Gallant’s complaint about the city’s sponsorship of five minor hockey clubs with names and logos he considers to be culturally insensitive.
Gallant, 48, of Mississauga, said he approached Mississauga officials in early 2015 to cut funding to the teams until they changed their names. When the city deferred the issue to the clubs, only offering to act as mediator, Gallant told the hearing he felt “blown off.”
In April of that year, he filed a formal complaint with the tribunal.
He testified Monday that his feelings about taking a stand against the team names and mascots took root when he started following the #notmymascot movement online and a Mississauga Chiefs coach told him a name change would likely never gain momentum.
“This case is about power of images, power of words,” said Gallant’s lawyer, Jeremiah Raining Bird.
The teams named in the case include the Mississauga Reps, the Mississauga Braves and the Mississauga Chiefs.
The other two teams have already changed their names: The Lorne Park Ojibwa are now the Lorne Park Clarkson Wild and the Meadowvale Mohawks became the Meadowvale Hawks.
Both of Gallant’s daughters, ages 14 and 16 — whose names are covered under a publication ban, had played for teams involved in the case. As a form of protest, he removed them from their respective teams in 2015.
The City of Mississauga said it tried to open a dialogue with Gallant but claims he hastily launched the complaint before the two sides could meet.
“It’s expected what you won’t hear is any clear explanation of what is acceptable to Mr. Gallant as to what is non-discriminatory,” city lawyer Brian Wasyliw said. “The city does not take a direct role with governance ... with those organizations. Those organizations select their own names.”
The hearing continues Tuesday.
jyuen@postmedia.com
Mississauga team logos targeted in Ontario Human Rights Tribunal complaint.

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[Tecumsehsbones]

BWA-HA-HA-HA! That's the huge advantage of going to Georgetown! Nobody knows what a "Hoya" is!

 

[Curious Cdn]

i am offended they named toronto after indian word, and also call it GTA after grand theft auto...
who do I sue?

On the other hand, "Toronto" means "stick in the mud" and it's sort of appropos, eh wot?

 

[Locutus]

bradley the sensitive cuck sounds like a mississaugan we know here. :lol:

 

[10larry]

North american natives fought to protect their turf from pale faces and now they want to suppress that legacy? Naming teams after these defenders and/or icons to me indicates respect and far from demeaning, teams strive to earn their competitors respect and doing so under an indian bannner should elate not embarass. A team, any team does not pick a looser name unless of course they are masochists and I'll wager cleveland indians and atlanta braves are not.
Hear this song now and again on the radio and it is insensitive but mississauga chiefs?, brad needs to give his head a shake but our loopy human rights tribunal is the right place to produce racial mountains from an ideological midgets' molehill.

 

[Angstrom]

The snowflacatation of North America continues. When will the pussification stop?