my b(law)g: December 2012

Monday 17 December 2012

Afro Hair Studio wins dispute over cutting "white men's hair"

In this case, Abraham Berhe and his wife struggled to maintain their "Afro Hair Studio," which specialized in dreadlocks, hair extensions and cornrows. The conflict in this case is that their landlord, Coblenz Holdings, wanted them to restrict their services to not cutting "white men's" hair because the Afro Hair Salon's business would jeopardize another barbers' business in the building. When the Berhe's first signed their tenancy agreement, there were no restrictions as to not cut "white men's hair." As an end to their dispute, the Berhes family left the property in February 2011. Berhes was entitled to a total of $67,706.50 for materials used to renovate the premises, breach of contract and legal costs.

This post relates to law because:
Like all Canadian citizens, the Berhes family has a right to work hard and support themselves. Citizens should not be signing contracts to restrict certain ethnicities hair. I believe that competition between businesses are essential to our everyday lives. A business should not be required to limit themselves to one race or sex, people should not be treated as categories.

Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/12/14/bc-afro-hair-court.html

Wednesday 12 December 2012

RCMP tell gay youth that "It Gets Better"

In this video, the LGBT community came together and talked about the hardships of being who they were. They all started with how they realized they were either gay, lesbian, transvestites or bisexual and summarized how they and the people around them adapted to it. Some people were supported, while others were taunted and cornered for most of their youth careers. All in all, the community wanted to tell the people of British Columbia that "it is okay to be gay."

This article related to Law 12 because it is centered on our own police force supporting our rights and freedoms. They are explaining that people should not be afraid of showing their true selves. This post is related to our fundamental rights and freedoms and equality rights.

www.cbc.ca/news/c/story/2012/11/06/rcmp-lgbtq-youtube.html