Ryerson’s Highest Rollers
January 18, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Every year, the Government of Ontario publishes university staff whose salary exceeds $100,000. Below is the list of Ryerson’s highest paid staff, and the highest salaries are in bold.
RONA ABRAMOVITCH Advisor, Outreach & Access $100,434.45
SANDEEP AGRAWAL Associate Professor $121,021.38
MEHRUNNISA ALI Associate Professor $108,809.32
HEKMAT ALIGHANBARI Associate Professor $105,258.04
JAVAD ALIREZAIE Associate Professor $104,635.63
ASHER ALKOBY Assistant Professor $136,538.88
LARISSA ALLEN Executive Director, Human Resources $204,746.43
KEITH ALNWICK Registrar $164,126.58
LAWRENCE ALTROWS Professor $135,103.96
MANUEL ALVAREZ-CUENCA Associate Professor $122,806.69
DAVID AMBORSKI Professor $137,333.40
LAMYA AMLEH Associate Professor $120,643.92
ALEXANDRA ANDERSON Associate Professor $101,593.12
D. SCOTT ANDERSON Associate Professor $170,570.72
DIMITRIOS ANDROUTSOS Associate Professor $126,856.71
ALAGAN ANPALAGAN Associate Professor $119,279.63
MERCY ANSELM Instructor $130,855.63
LARRY ANTA Senior Programmer/Analyst, UNIX $108,023.70
MARTIN ANTONY Professor $140,442.56
SEDEF ARAT-KOC Associate Professor $120,276.51
ERROL ASPEVIG Professor $212,101.28
MALEK ATAY Professor $128,008.96
LESLIE ATKINSON Professor $136,753.12
CHRISTOPHER AYLWARD Associate Professor $138,558.28
RON BABIN Director $131,631.58
KIRK BAILEY Professor $144,767.16
ROBERT BAKER Executive Director, Development $103,765.47
DOUGLAS BANTING Professor $132,971.72
MARSHA BARBER Associate Professor $124,389.91
THOMAS BARBIERO Professor $119,218.97
SUSAN BARNWELL Professor $131,107.56
LUISA BARTON Regional Co-ordinator, Nurse Practitioner Program $131,812.64
SAHRI BAUM Counsellor $104,951.26
HEATHER BEANLANDS Associate Professor $118,993.09
KAMRAN BEHDINAN Chair, Aerospace Engineering $157,854.15
AKUA BENJAMIN Professor $126,780.34
IDA BERGER Professor $115,038.72
JUDITH BERNHARD Professor $110,248.71
SANJIWAN BHOLE Professor $143,178.56
GEORGE BIELMEIER Professor $129,996.28
ELIZABETH BISHOP Senior Librarian $118,766.78
EDWARD BLINDER Instructor $111,207.02
STALIN BOCTOR Dean $206,957.15
FERNANDO BONILLA Manager, Information Technology Security $111,140.23
J. PAUL BOUDREAU Chair, Psychology $134,800.12
MARTA BRAUN Professor $145,274.08
DIANA BRECHER Counsellor $101,385.16
MANFRED BREEDE Professor $121,298.12
ANNE-MARIE BRINSMEAD Associate Program Director, Arts $100,496.98
JUDITH BRITNELL Professor $139,217.11
JULIE BROWN Director, Development $108,050.34
MARGARET BUCKBY Professor $126,457.37
RICHARD BUDNY Professor $121,005.32
MIKE BURKE Associate Professor $111,038.88
TARA BURKE Associate Professor $110,137.60
ROBERT BURLEY Assistant Professor $113,027.80
JENNIFER LIS BURWELL Associate Professor $105,455.00
JUN CAO Associate Professor $100,808.64
DALE CARL Associate Professor $115,522.52
ELIZABETH CARLSON Assistant Professor $108,069.68
MARIA CARVALHO Professor $116,640.28
AMY CASEY Special Assistant, Provost/Vice President, Academic $140,599.12
CARLA CASSIDY Dean $188,121.88
BARBARA CECCHETTO Assistant Registrar $113,339.05
CHUCK CHAKRAPANI Senior Research Fellow $125,442.29
ANTHONY M. Y CHAN Professor $141,835.24
PHILIP CHAN Associate Dean $145,828.16
VINCENT CHAN Associate Professor $107,101.33
DEBORAH CHANT Professor $138,299.34
MICHAEL CHAPMAN Professor $133,661.37
JANET CHAPPELL Director $141,268.35
CAROLE CHAUNCEY Professor $118,350.84
DAVID CHECKLAND Associate Professor $102,554.64
DAOLUN CHEN Professor $127,123.19
YANG CHEN Senior Distributed Systems Specialist $103,542.29
YAO-CHON CHEN Professor $114,954.24
MELINDA CHENG Project Director, HRMS Implementation $111,424.17
OPHELIA CHEUNG Senior Librarian $101,975.80
RICHARD CHEUNG Professor $122,653.33
TIMOTHY CHIU Manager, Accounting & Treasury $112,868.17
ALICE CHU Professor $141,918.68
CLARE CHUA-CHOW Associate Professor $131,297.20
JOON CHUNG Associate Professor $103,033.80
KATHRYN CHURCH Associate Professor $100,876.57
BRIAN CLARENCE Professor $123,939.55
COLEEN CLARK Assistant Professor $130,648.58
SCOTT CLARKE Chief Internal Auditor $135,725.55
KENNETH CLOWES Professor $121,168.04
SUSAN CODY Associate Professor $142,184.04
MARIANELLA COLLETTE Associate Professor $104,548.40
MARION COOMEY Associate Professor $109,599.24
LINDA COOPER Professor $137,715.92
PHILIP COPPACK Associate Dean $134,485.36
JOHN CORALLO Director, Ancillary Services $158,050.16
PATRICIA CORSON Associate Professor $113,303.53
MARION CREERY Director, Student Services $169,233.74
WENDY CUKIER Associate Dean $184,459.26
WACLAW DAJNOWIEC Senior Research Associate $123,595.98
BRIAN DAMUDE Professor $117,188.24
PETER DANZIGER Associate Professor $108,579.68
CHARLES DAVIS Professor $139,686.56
DAVID DAY Associate Professor $106,012.48
NELLIE DE LORENZI Associate Director, Consulting & Client Services $123,827.87
LUCIA DELL’AGNESE Professor $112,672.01
MELANIE DEMPSEY Associate Professor $115,183.20
DENNIS DENISOFF Associate Professor $112,856.29
YOUCEF DERBAL Assistant Professor $113,473.37
MICHAEL R. J DEWSON Vice Provost, Faculty Affairs $217,178.18
RAMDHANE DHIB Associate Professor $104,168.39
JAMES DIANDA Professor $121,495.60
JUDITH DIMITRIU Professor $125,233.92
CHEN DING Assistant Professor $101,260.76
MICHELLE DIONNE Associate Professor $102,075.82
ROBERT DIRSTEIN Director, Office of Research Services $115,480.34
HUU DOAN Associate Professor $122,931.19
KATHLEEN DODDRIDGE Manager, Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity $112,605.07
FAITH DONALD Associate Professor $117,463.05
LINYING DONG Assistant Professor $105,022.35
HITESH DOSHI Professor $130,764.68
MICHAEL DOUCET Professor $131,542.62
DANIEL DOZ Dean $177,957.53
GAIL DUFFUS Director, Administration $104,011.51
KAREN DUPLISEA Associate Professor $103,750.25
DAVID DUSSELDORP Manager, Database Administration $110,095.66
CHERYL DYSON Instructor $123,421.71
SAID EASA Professor $147,489.57
FARHAD EIN-MOZAFFARI Associate Professor $106,998.54
BRUCE ELDER Professor $156,722.02
GREG ELMER Associate Professor $118,265.12
AHMED EL-RABBANY Professor $105,240.28
SHERRY ESPIN Associate Professor $116,663.88
MARIA ETKIND Professor $115,394.52
CHRISTOPHER EVANS Associate Dean $134,669.40
ELIZABETH EVANS Director $128,868.20
RICK EVERATT Senior Network Specialist $104,337.10
LIPING FANG Chair, Mechanical Engineering $136,458.16
CARLYLE FARRELL Chair, Global Management Studies $134,045.72
GENEVIEVE FARRELL Instructor $112,133.87
ZOUHEIR FAWAZ Professor $171,797.46
DEBORAH FELS Associate Professor $121,681.54
TAMAR FERNANDES Manager, Human Resources Services $116,472.76
XAVIER FERNANDO Associate Professor $113,529.95
SEBASTIAN FERRANDO Chair, Math $115,963.52
ALEXANDER FERWORN Associate Professor $121,712.01
CAROL FINE Professor $114,792.40
BLAKE FITZPATRICK Professor $125,748.61
GABOR FORGACS Assistant Professor $105,751.68
TYLER FORKES Executive Director, Alumni Relations $140,764.93
BRADLEY FORTNER Program Director $115,356.54
DEBORA FOSTER Professor $128,143.28
MARY FOSTER Chair, Marketing $159,550.30
VALERIE FOX Director $173,600.03
ELAINE FRANKEL Professor $127,509.76
JACOB FRIEDMAN Associate Professor $111,834.72
LARRY FULLERTON Professor $131,277.72
ALAN FUNG Associate Professor $103,310.44
IRENE GAMMEL Professor $145,580.67
ROBERTA GARCIA Director, Development $107,135.62
STEVEN GEDEON Assistant Professor $106,712.02
PETER GEE Assistant Director, Financial Services $142,181.06
GEORGE GEKAS Associate Professor $145,358.36
NOEL GEORGE Associate Professor $102,183.28
PURNIMA GEORGE Associate Professor $107,583.38
USHA GEORGE Dean $185,829.32
VADIM GEURKOV Associate Professor $109,479.00
AHMAD GHASEMPOOR Associate Professor $123,379.70
KIMBERLEY GILBRIDE Professor $127,756.41
SUZETTE GILES Senior Librarian $106,687.84
CHARLES GILLIN Chair, Sociology $144,894.16
DESMOND GLYNN Program Director $127,092.90
JEAN GOLDEN Professor $153,550.48
PEDRO GOLDMAN Chair, Physics $155,320.23
KATHRYN GOODING Manager, Human Resources Consulting $113,243.30
ABBY GOODRUM Associate Professor $120,744.72
RYBURN GOODYEAR Professor $131,660.64
MARK GORGOLEWSKI Professor $129,251.81
ALLEN GOSS Assistant Professor $131,171.27
CHRISTOPHER GRANDISON Professor $110,757.72
DIANE GRANFIELD Senior Librarian $108,782.83
CANDACE GRANT Faculty $102,047.04
KEN GRANT Associate Professor $168,892.10
LINDA GRAYSON Vice President, Administration & Finance $253,946.66
DAVID GREATRIX Associate Professor $116,451.06
DEBORAH GREENFIELD FINDLAY Director, Development $105,712.05
XIJIA GU Associate Professor $118,767.12
LING GUAN Professor $180,235.24
ABDELAZIZ GUERGACHI Associate Professor $107,042.78
CATHERINE GULLO Program Manager $100,768.49
LOUDANSKI GUMBS Security Systems Administrator $103,415.63
SEPALI GURUGE Associate Professor $107,244.20
DZUNG HA Associate Professor $111,990.28
CHARMAINE HACK Associate Registrar $120,647.77
MURTAZA HAIDER Associate Professor $127,121.24
BRANKA HALILOVIC Manager, Academic Services $103,346.33
LESLIE HALL Associate Professor $108,428.40
DENIS HAMELIN Associate Professor $121,493.31
IAN HAMILTON Director, Campus Planning & Facilities $174,363.44
KEITH HAMPSON Director, Distance Education $130,030.58
JULIA HANIGSBERG General Counsel/Secretary, Board of Governors $210,707.34
FRANCIS HARE Professor $131,931.80
ERIC HARLEY Assistant Professor $110,568.04
JOHN HARNESS Information Systems Security Officer $146,478.37
SANDRA HART Manager, Campus Recreation $105,438.85
STACEY HART Associate Professor $113,178.32
STEPHEN HAWKINS Director, Computing & Communications Services $138,558.06
VIOLETTE HENEIN Manager, Budgets & Projects $103,086.12
JANET HERCZ Director $126,460.95
JUAN HERNANDEZ Director, Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity $126,278.99
DARRICK HEYD Chair, Chemistry & Biology $113,571.81
ROBERT HUDYMA Associate Professor $109,279.52
GERALD HUNT Chair, Human Resources & Organizational Behaviour $142,841.04
ANDREW HUNTER Assistant Professor $101,711.44
DAVID HUNTER Associate Professor $108,853.80
MICHAEL HUNTER Professor $131,435.60
CATHERINE HURLEY Director $117,653.34
ALI HUSSEIN Professor $136,033.97
MICHAEL INGLIS Assistant Professor $161,820.31
GREG INWOOD Professor $106,789.00
WINSTON ISAAC Director $114,237.29
KARIM ISMAILI Chair, Criminal Justice $120,828.14
NAVA ISRAEL Program Manager $112,200.43
MOHAMAD JABER Professor $122,151.85
ROBERT JACKSON Senior Librarian $109,215.10
A. HERSCH JACOBS Professor $121,246.92
FARROKH JANABI-SHARIFI Associate Professor $114,029.64
LORRAINE JANZEN KOOISTRA Professor $137,955.30
MUHAMMAD JASEEMUDDIN Associate Professor $116,433.00
KOUROUSH JENAB Assistant Professor $101,503.60
KNUD JENSEN Professor $144,998.42
CAROLYN JOHNS Associate Professor $103,656.88
DAVID JOHNSTON Professor $150,184.74
KENNETH JONES Dean $221,259.65
BASSAM JUBRAN Professor $141,609.08
ADAM KAHAN Vice President, University Advancement $369,730.66
MOHANDAS KANNOTH Supervisor, Technical Support, Student Information Systems $101,168.30
PAUL KANTOREK Professor $127,704.88
GEORGE KAPELOS Associate Professor $108,112.96
ALAN KAPLAN Associate Professor $131,824.54
SHEIKH KARIM Professor $127,704.88
MAHMOOD KASSAM Professor $143,633.28
JOHN KAWALL Associate Professor $127,167.92
ANTHONY KAY Manager, Student Information Systems $110,095.66
RONALD KEEBLE Professor $142,088.18
KATHLEEN KELLETT-BETSOS Chair, French $121,588.48
PAULETTE KELLY Professor $126,990.08
SUANNE KELMAN Associate Professor $104,789.86
GERARD KENNEDY Professor of Distinction $125,466.83
DIANE KENYON Executive Director, Marketing & Communications $176,788.46
GUL KHAN Associate Professor $126,419.86
MOHAMMED KIANOUSH Professor $118,532.57
LEV KIRISCHIAN Associate Professor $120,621.08
ARNE KISLENKO Associate Professor $104,013.52
MARIA KJERULF Assistant Professor $114,777.28
PAUL KNOX Chair, Journalism $122,647.20
MUSTAFA KOC Associate Professor $112,051.44
MICHAEL KOLIOS Associate Professor $142,475.89
STANISLAUS KOO Manager $100,526.88
MITCHELL KOSNY Professor $140,841.58
SRIDHAR KRISHNAN Chair, Electrical Engineering $159,964.58
WALTER KRYSTIA Instructor $107,419.44
CHRIS KULAR Assistant Professor $108,423.86
KRISHNA KUMAR Associate Professor $120,442.40
MOHAMED LACHEMI Associate Dean $160,467.43
MAXINE LAINE Assistant Director, Student Services $132,259.25
KUNQUAN LAN Associate Professor $150,989.91
TAMMY LANDAU Associate Professor $105,814.70
RACHEL LANGFORD Director $100,792.80
EDDIE K. L LAW Associate Professor $113,296.80
PETER LAWRENCE Professor $128,183.76
JOSEPH LEE Professor $126,806.96
MARILYN LEE Professor $126,867.97
MADELEINE LEFEBVRE Chief Librarian $152,866.02
WEY LEONG Associate Professor $104,415.56
YEW-THONG LEONG Associate Professor $137,247.13
JURIJ LESHCHYSHYN Professor $114,692.62
IARA LESSA Associate Professor $103,597.48
BRIAN LESSER Assistant Director, Development & Support $140,149.52
AVNER LEVIN Chair, Law $157,131.11
IRA LEVINE Chair, Professional Communication $193,379.01
SHELDON LEVY President $391,217.00
SHIRLEY LEWCHUK Communication Coordinator, Faculty, Communication & Design $104,153.38
JULIA LEWIS Director, Centre for Environmental, Health, Safety & Security $137,270.98
JAMES LI Associate Professor $128,629.76
ZAIYI LIAO Associate Professor $107,289.04
PHILIP LIM Manager, Career Centre $107,007.97
DER CHYAN LIN Associate Professor $106,009.04
HOWARD LIN Professor $124,336.12
IAN LINDSAY Professor $116,329.52
SERGEI LIPNITSKI Audio-Visual Systems Technology $105,315.31
NINA-MARIE LISTER Associate Professor $106,391.20
GUANG JUN LIU Associate Professor $131,625.29
GUOPING LIU Assistant Professor $103,802.64
ALI LOHI Chair, Chemical Engineering $170,410.72
JOHN LOVE Director $153,274.50
HUA LU Professor $124,259.20
JULIA LU Associate Professor $103,621.36
GRACE LUK Professor $125,601.64
PETER LUK Professor $110,183.47
JANET LUM Associate Professor $121,346.31
NGOK-WA MA Professor $149,101.16
IAN MACBURNIE Associate Professor $103,155.08
MICHAEL MACDONALD Geomatics Lab Coordinator $105,723.45
KEITH MACINNES Instructor $100,497.45
ROSS MACNAUGHTON Professor $153,011.38
VANESSA MAGNESS Associate Professor $113,520.00
MARGARET M MALONE Associate Professor $101,311.44
MICHAEL MANJURIS Professor $151,405.04
DAVID MARTIN Director $128,833.56
STEVEN MARTIN Director, Commercialization & Industrial Liaison $128,143.43
HESHAM MARZOUK Chair, Civil Engineering $160,028.71
DAVID MASON Professor $125,714.56
ANASTASE MASTORAS Professor $119,015.44
PAULA MASTRILLI Program Manager, Nursing $108,320.32
MAURICE MAZEROLLE Associate Professor $126,220.34
CATHERINE MCCARTHY Associate Professor $123,348.79
LYNDA MCCARTHY Associate Professor $107,708.12
ELIZABETH MCCAY Associate Professor $126,610.06
KIMBERLY MCCOLLUM Senior Distributed Systems Specialist $104,433.05
KRISTIINA MCCONVILLE Associate Professor $102,270.48
MARSHA MCEACHRANE MIKHAIL Director/International Liaison Officer $100,526.63
BERNARD MCEVOY Professor $131,277.72
ERIN MCGINN Director $125,415.25
PATRICIA MCGRAW Associate Professor $117,101.56
TIM MCINERNEY Associate Professor $111,645.53
DOUGLAS MCKESSOCK Professor $162,058.72
MEHRAB MEHRVAR Associate Professor $151,103.37
ROBERT MEIKLEJOHN Instructor $165,904.89
AGNES MEINHARD Associate Professor $121,702.32
NAGI MEKHIEL Professor $111,248.04
RENA MENDELSON Professor $141,382.40
MOURAD MICHAEL Manager, Network Systems $109,297.15
WIESLAW MICHALAK Associate Professor $118,629.48
LEO MICHELIS Professor $131,745.20
RICHARD MICHON Associate Professor $113,644.93
CATHERINE MIDDLETON Associate Professor $133,035.38
BARBARA MIELNIK-VOGEL Associate Professor $102,968.28
EARL MILLER Director, Organizational Learning $110,095.66
JOHN MILLER Professor $127,305.94
TONY MINHAS Lead Distributed Systems Specialist $101,172.81
PAUL MISSIOS Chair, Economics $117,709.65
ANNICK MITCHELL Chair, Interior Design $146,797.32
KEN MOFFATT Associate Professor $114,877.37
FARAHNAZ MOHAMMADI Assistant Professor $103,944.07
JANE MONRO Professor $152,092.48
COLIN MOOERS Professor $131,997.52
JOHN MORGAN Professor $120,173.56
MARCIA MOSHE Associate Dean $132,481.24
RAYMOND MOSS Professor $149,957.30
GILLIAN MOTHERSILL Associate Dean $128,096.20
DOUG MOXON Director, Marketing & Production $102,486.91
ELIZABETH MOYER Assistant Director, Client Services $115,937.67
HOWARD MUCHNICK Faculty $108,269.56
MICHAEL MURPHY Professor $150,206.46
ZITA MURPHY Librarian $101,949.28
BERNADINE MURRAY Assistant Professor $101,857.08
ROBERT MURRAY Chair, Philosophy $109,294.44
STAN NAKAGAWA Senior Distributed Systems Specialist $101,823.03
JANET NANKIVELL Director, Development $109,207.84
DAVID NARANJIT Professor $115,721.64
DAVID NAYLOR Professor $122,738.61
JAN NEIMAN Manager, Pension & Benefits $101,284.67
PATRICK NEUMANN Assistant Professor $102,270.48
MARY NG Director $122,816.90
ROY NG Faculty $113,552.46
OJELANKI NGWENYAMA Professor $133,113.04
MARY JO NICHOLSON Professor $150,992.40
JAMES NORRIE Associate Dean $166,901.06
GALINA OKOUNEVA Associate Professor $104,172.36
SHEILA O’NEILL Professor $126,313.72
STEPHEN ONYSKAY Senior Research Associate $103,071.62
GARNET ORD Associate Professor $109,330.80
PATRICIA O’REILLY Associate Professor $105,338.12
DIANE OSSHER Director, Business Systems $129,614.64
JUDY PAISLEY Associate Professor $123,326.10
JOSHUA PANAR Professor $133,824.88
MELANIE PANITCH Director $105,360.56
RUTH PANOFSKY Professor $110,810.37
MARCELLO PAPINI Associate Professor $130,176.63
FERNANDO PARDO Faculty $112,956.84
JOAN PARSONS Librarian $102,320.88
ANA PEJOVIC-MILIC Associate Professor $117,093.73
KATHERINE PENNY Director, Experiential Learning $130,943.56
BHAGWANT PERSAUD Professor $135,695.36
WAYNE PETROZZI Professor $132,269.24
WADE PICKREN Associate Professor $123,658.72
ART PIERCE Instructor $110,151.89
BRUCE PIERCEY Director, Publications & Web Services $109,056.40
PETER PILLE Professor $134,001.44
DIANE PIRNER Assistant Professor $212,167.04
WADE PITMAN Manager, Purchasing & Payments Services $102,371.86
WAYNE PITTENDREIGH Professor $117,279.76
MICHAEL PLASSE-TAYLOR Assistant Professor $103,747.68
MALGORZATA PLAZA Associate Professor $102,770.48
LEO PLOTKIN Manager, Administrative Systems, Human Resources $101,833.05
PAUL SOON HU POH Associate Professor $119,432.08
CARMEN POLICELLI Lead Distributed Systems Specialist $130,470.51
MURRAY POMERANCE Professor $140,165.46
GORDON PON Assistant Professor $105,780.36
CHEUNG POON Professor $141,609.08
CAROLYN POSA Coordinator, Financial Aid $109,330.73
NADIA POTTS-GOMEZ Professor $111,715.31
JOAN POWER Professor $112,404.48
FRANKLYN PRESCOD Assistant Professor $118,215.63
FRANCES PRYCHIDNY Professor $109,739.44
RONALD PUSHCHAK Professor $121,176.20
SOPHIE QUIGLEY Professor $114,954.24
KAAMRAN RAAHEMIFAR Associate Professor $108,909.72
KEN RADWAY Program Director $112,798.49
MARY ANNE RAIT Financial Systems Administrator $103,324.53
SERGIY RAKHMAYIL Assistant Professor $120,435.72
DAVID RASMUSSON Manager, Administrative Systems, Finance $110,095.66
ANN RAUHALA Associate Professor $106,610.80
COMONDORE RAVINDRAN Professor $144,506.01
MANUEL RAVINSKY Associate Director $124,417.85
MARION REID Faculty $108,336.16
MONIQUE RICHARD Professor $116,329.52
ROBERT RINKOFF Professor $131,229.96
CLAUS RINNER Assistant Professor $100,813.96
COLIN RIPLEY Associate Professor $105,004.56
GLORIA ROBERTS-FIATI Professor $111,349.12
LAWRENCE ROBINSON Manager, Safety & Security $102,525.99
ARTHUR ROSS Professor $130,006.12
NEIL ROTHENBERG Faculty $107,747.74
DERICK ROUSSEAU Associate Professor $119,798.61
JANE SABER Assistant Professor $126,338.88
ALIREZA SADEGHIAN Chair, Computer Science $130,965.23
ZIAD SAGHIR Professor $133,922.65
IAN SAKINOFSKY Professor $113,416.32
FILIPPO SALUSTRI Associate Professor $104,960.20
JUDITH SANDYS Associate Professor $129,765.00
ELAINE SANTA MINA Associate Professor $168,742.45
MARCUS SANTOS Associate Professor $112,257.92
NAJAM SAQIB Assistant Professor $126,216.56
PHILIP SCHALM Program Director $104,700.81
KENDRA SCHANK SMITH Chair, Arch. Sci. & Land Arch $125,928.88
DAVID SCHLANGER Professor $148,421.88
PERRY SCHNEIDERMAN Chair, Theatre School $132,007.46
DIANE SCHULMAN Director, Secretary of Senate $127,517.05
RKENNEDY SCULLION Associate Registrar, Enrollment Services & Student Records $136,007.29
ALAN SEARS Associate Professor $115,785.72
REZA SEDAGHAT Assistant Professor $102,628.56
SEAN SEDLEZKY Manager, Program Design $104,464.31
DEBAPRIYA SEN Assistant Professor $101,718.88
KHALED SENNAH Professor $129,134.10
BHARAT SHAH Professor $133,496.60
ABHAY SHARMA Chair, Graphic Communication Management $133,360.12
MARION SHARP Assistant Manager, Human Resources Business Systems $109,001.96
ALAN SHEPARD Provost/Vice President, Academic $279,707.66
JOHN SHIELDS Professor $133,455.72
ANITA SHILTON Dean $197,130.27
FARID SHIRAZI Faculty $105,158.80
SOURAYA SIDANI Professor $158,047.44
MYER SIEMIATYCKI Professor $139,537.64
SUSAN SILVER Associate Professor $115,435.68
EDWARD SLOPEK Associate Professor $110,507.49
TIMOTHY SLY Professor $125,053.20
CLAUDETTE SMITH Program Director $148,619.05
DONNA SMITH Professor $121,465.60
JOYCE SMITH Associate Professor $105,005.74
PATRICIA SNIDERMAN Professor $136,913.37
JOHN SNYDER Chair, Image Arts $140,730.44
BARBARA SOUTAR Assistant Registrar $127,953.65
MIKHAIL SOUTCHANSKI Assistant Professor $102,124.23
KAREN SPALDING Associate Professor $106,988.89
JOSEPH SPRINGER Professor $125,938.60
RONALD STAGG Professor $133,824.88
PAUL STENTON Vice Provost, University Planning $199,383.07
MARY STEWART Professor $119,187.40
SHELAGH STEWART Professor $130,201.68
PETER STRAHLENDORF Associate Professor $183,157.28
CAROL STUART Associate Professor $111,529.12
PAMELA SUGIMAN Professor $117,121.52
STEPHEN SWALES Assistant Professor $114,226.12
BETH SWART Professor $187,088.64
DARIA SYDOR Chair, Accounting $181,993.10
JIM TAM Associate Professor $111,353.24
DONALD TAVARES Professor $126,912.96
DEIRDRE TAYLOR Professor $138,759.31
ERIC TERRY Associate Professor $122,321.24
KOKCHU DONAL THAM Professor $128,696.60
NEIL THOMLINSON Chair, Politics/Public Admin $111,710.92
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Poor to pay more under McGuinty’s HST
January 7, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Rich people and corporations get a break
Graeme Z. Johnson
In short, unless you are wealthy, or happen to be a large business, the HST will be bad for you.
The McGuinty Liberals claim that the HST, along with other proposed corporate tax cuts, will make Ontario more competitive in attracting business and investment. The bill, if passed, would cut corporate tax rates from 14 to 12 per cent, with the eventual goal of dropping rates to 10 per cent.
At the same time, with the introduction of the 13 per cent HST, the prices of many products that had previously been exempt from PST would jump by eight per cent. This means that much of the money previously collected from big business would now be taken from individual consumers.
Not all consumers will be affected in the same way, however. Because sales tax is a form of regressive taxation, the proportion of overall income that is paid by low-income people is much higher than that paid by those with higher incomes.
Some of the greatest increases will be seen in basic living expenses such as electricity, natural gas, propane, home heating fuel, gasoline and telephone services – making this a tax grab that is almost impossible to avoid, and further restricting the already tight budgets of middle- and working-class people as well as the unemployed. Indigenous people, according to Statistics Canada, are 12.4 per cent more likely to be unemployed than non-Aboriginal people, and are also more frequently in the lowest income brackets, which makes it hard not to see harmonization as discriminatory tax reform.
There are some exceptions, however. Many people hoping to own their own home in the near future will be pleased to know that the purchase of new homes will be exempt from HST – that is, as long as that home costs more than $500,000.
As if that was not enough, many Aboriginal leaders consider the HST to violate Indigenous groups’ treaty rights to tax exemption. According to Stan Beardy, Grand Chief of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN), “for the people of Nishnawbe Aski, the right to tax exemption is based on the spirit, intent and letter of Treaties 5 and 9 which are protected by Section 35 of the Canadian Constitution Act, 1982 … [t]here is no doubt that an unmodified HST would be seen as a new tax in violation of this NAN Treaty right.”
Under the current taxation system, First Nations people receive a point-of-sale exemption from PST upon presentation of a status card. With the introduction of a single, blended tax, to receive exemption, goods will either have to be purchased on reserve or delivered to a reserve.
Increases in the cost of home heating fuel and propane will also unfairly target residents of rural Northern communities, of whom a disproportionate number are Indigenous. Additionally, higher gasoline costs could significantly restrict the mobility of rural dwellers who must travel longer distances to work or school and most likely do not have access to public transport.
The BC government, which also plans to introduce its own version of the HST, claims that it will actually reduce consumer costs since “[u]nder the current system, taxes are paid at every step in production and passed on to consumers.” Any lowering of consumer prices, therefore, would only be created through voluntary price reductions by producers, manufacturers and retailers. Although it would be nice to believe that companies would pass these savings on, a brief look at the pricing practices of oil producers over the past decade should explode any illusions of corporate generosity.
In order to win over the public to this obvious corporate handout, the McGuinty government has proposed a one-time, $1,000 rebate to lower-income people and families which, according to TD Economics, would not even cover the increases consumers would see in the first year, estimating that the HST could cost individuals up to $2,000 more than the current sales tax.
So, if you happen to be a large corporation, or the type of person who can afford to purchase a house worth over half a million dollars, then the HST will be great for you.
For anyone else, you might want to consider contacting your local MPP.
Tell your MPPs you oppose McGuinty’s HST. Find them online.
Who do you believe?
January 7, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Tories and Generals, or Malalai Joya, Afghan MP?
Shawn Whitney
WELL, IT SEEMS that the Tories have recognized that their own ship of lies is sinking like the Edmund Fitzgerald. They spent the better part of the week attacking Richard Colvin. Then they set the attack dog generals on them, including master pitbull, General Rick Hillier. They all denied that anyone knew anything about anything - which makes one wonder what qualifies them to lead anything more complicated than a lemonade stand.
Well, now the Tories have changed their tune alright. Now they knew right from the very start something was amiss. Huh? Were they just testing us all week? Feeding us the big lie to see how gullible we are, and then, when they can hold a straight face no longer, they shout: “psych!”?
Somebody should have told their generals that this was the plan, because their story was still the old one, right up till the last minute. Then, suddenly, whooomp, everything was different. As Defense Minister, Peter MacKay put it: “Obviously there were concerns about the state of prisons,” he said. “There were concerns about allegations. There were concerns about information found in reports. There were concerns.”
I also have concerns about Peter MacKay, but they are a little different than his concerns. I’m concerned that he’s going to give himself whiplash.
Perhaps he read or listened to the CBC interview with Malalai Joya, the former Afghan MP - thrown out of the Afghan Parliament for raising embarrassing questions about the human rights records of our “democratic allies.” On November 19, Joya stated unequivocally that this was not news to people living in Afghanistan:
“What [Colvin] has been saying is what I’ve heard from my people,” she said. “Many of the victims are women and children detainees who have been raped,” she said. “It’s not new for our people.”
What is clear is that were it not for pressure from people outside of the Tory government, with their paranoia, they would have hidden everything forever. The only real concerns that MacKay and his ilk had was that it would get out that what we were (and are) creating in Afghanistan is a corrupt torture regime. The key difference between them and the Taliban is that the former are willing to do our bidding almost without question. In return for obedience, we’ll let them torture whoever they want.
This article originally appeared on RedBedHead, a blog by Toronto artist and activist Shawn Whitney, on November 28, 2009.
Kick the Tories while they’re down
January 7, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Shawn Whitney
PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN Harper has had a remarkably easy ride over the past two minority governments. He’s been incompetent on the economy and undermined the population’s faith in their H1N1 plans. He’s been mean-spirited and taken every opportunity to attack the arts, Muslims, the unemployed, et cetera. He’s lied, broken promises, had a government that has gone against the sentiment of the vast majority of Canadians on the war in Afghanistan and climate change. He had Maxime Bernier as Foreign Affairs Minister, the incompetent dolt who leaves classified government documents at his girlfriend’s house, and Rona Ambrose as Environment Minister, though she had no knowledge or qualifications for the job.
How does he survive? It’s not anything to do with his ability to keep his people under control. This is a useful myth. If anything, the Stalinist-like paranoia of this government should itself be an easy target for the opposition parties and media. Nor is it about his particularly skillful ability to spin the government’s message in a way that connects with people. He’s just not personable.
No, it’s the result of a politically weak opposition in parliament.
I’ll admit that I’m not one of those people who thinks that the NDP should link up with the Liberals to unite “progressives.” I think for the NDP, trying to differentiate themselves would be a disaster. And it would be counter-productive to the needs of the vast majority of the population.
The Liberals are a party of business, like the Tories, though they are, in their language, more pragmatic, consensus-builders, etc. than the latter. But we shouldn’t forget that it was the Liberals that sent our troops to Afghanistan. And it was the Liberals, under Chrétien and Martin who slashed social spending to eliminate a deficit created in no small part by cuts to taxes for corporations and the wealthy under Tory Brian Mulroney. And, of course, the leader of the Liberals is notorious for having supported torture by the US government to gain information from “suspected terrorists.”
However, this perfect storm of timidity and political consensus - disguised behind occasional bouts of oppositional fervour over silly technical side-issues (like Bernier’s forgetting his briefcase) – couldn’t last forever. Sooner or later, they would be hoisted on their own petard – just as with enough manure and rain, something eventually must sprout.
The prisoner scandal appears to be that thing. Even with lickspittle, Tory-toad columnists Rosie DiManno and Christie Blatchford working overtime to justify every inhumanity the Tories and their military enforcers implement, the Opposition has finally found something that they can nail the Tories on. And the Tories’ attempt to smear a man of obvious ability, commitment and honour, has blown up in their faces. They are now fighting a rearguard action to try and prevent a public inquiry on the prisoner torture issue. They have clearly lost the initiative and everything they now do simply looks like cover-up and back-pedaling.
This breach in the Tory fortress and sense of purpose and momentum by the Opposition - with the Liberals having to hide Ignatieff to be able to take advantage of this opportunity - could help to reinvigorate not only the anti-war movement, but also other broadly anti-Tory forces across the country. This moment won’t last forever – that’s for certain. And the Opposition has demonstrated an uncanny ability to discover ways of missing any opportunity that comes their way. The social movements, the union movement in particular, need to be taking this opportunity to put the boot in to the Tories - over EI, social spending, Afghanistan, Omar Khadr, climate change and more.
If we miss this chance, we’ll have no one to blame but ourselves for several more years of Tory government, including the possibility of a majority next time around. And that is a possibility just too depressing to consider.
This article originally appeared on RedBedHead, a blog by Toronto artist and activist Shawn Whitney, on December 1, 2009.
Community demands access to education without fear
January 7, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Toronto’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy remains unenforced in many schools
James Burrows, News Editor
No One Is Illegal believes that to label a person “illegal” is to deny them of their humanity and to create a community that is constantly in fear.
This is the message that Grade 10 students at Harbord Collegiate received when they packed into their auditorium for a presentation by No One is Illegal and a documentary entitled Education not Deportation.
No One Is Illegal describes themselves as “a group of immigrants, refugees and allies who fight for the rights of all migrants to live with dignity and respect. We believe that granting citizenship to a privileged few is part of racist immigration and border policies designed to exploit and marginalize migrants.”
Education not Deportation outlined the campaign by No One Is Illegal and allies to encourage the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) to pass a “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.
Under this policy, when a parent attempts to register a child in school, their legal status is not requested and if their legal status is discovered, the school is forbidden from passing this information on to any government agency.
This policy was passed by the TDSB in 2006 but continues to be unimplemented in many schools.
Although the Education Act of Ontario is clear that a student’s status does not preclude them from an education, in practice the situation is much different. When parents attempt to register their children they are often met with administrators and forms requesting proof of their status.
The Education not Deportation campaign argues that “despite being at the backbone of Canada’s economy, non-status people are barred from access to essential services including shelter, health care, social housing, emergency and settlement supports and education. They live in daily fear of detention and deportation.”
“Creating safe spaces for students is about more than just admission. You walk out of the classroom and you are scared. You are not just thinking about your marks. You think if you speak up, someone may report you,” noted one Harbord Collegiate student.
It is this fear that the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy was meant to address. But, as the Education not Deportation documentary attempts to show, much fear remains in the community because many schools remain unaware of the policy.
“Without actual access to education [people are forced] into economically oppressed situations where they live in poverty,” said Javier Davila, a teacher and a member of Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation, District 12. “This is a crisis and much of it is to be blamed on our fearful access to education that we have created by not following the Education Act.”
Section 49.1 of the Ontario Education Act states that a person “who is less than eighteen years of age shall not be refused admission because the person or the person’s parent or guardian is unlawfully in Canada.”
This section was amended following Canada’s ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which states that all children should be able to access education.
In the documentary Davilla stated “Education not Deportation is a campaign initiated by grassroots actvist group No One Is Illegal with the huge help of community support, students, parents, a broad coalition of partners including the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation.” CUPE also supports the campaign.
Pam Dogra, an elementary school teacher noted that “very few parents will come to schools, particularly if there are signs up that say the opposite of what the policy actually is. Sometimes you’ll walk into a school and the regular checklist is, ‘Can I see your immigration papers?’ ‘Do you have a passport?’ So parents, I think, are very fearful to come in, and word spreads very fast in the community”
TDSB Trustee Chris Bolton stated “this is the first time that you as students have come together to hear about the policy.” Bolton also added that if anyone hears of a student not being able to access education in Toronto they should “call my office and we will make sure they have a space.”
No One Is Illegal believes that the TDSB, “in the absence of public education in schools and migrant communities to ensure access not fear for undocumented people, the TDSB is missing out on becoming the model for schools across the country.”
The documentary was part of a series of films that are being shown through the school’s “movies that matter” series. No One is Illegal was brought in as part of the history and civics program that focuses on immigration policy in Canada.
There are as many as 500,000 undocumented people in Canada.
Anti-Abortion club suspended at McGill
Evan Brockest
McGill University’s student union has voted to suspend the rights of an anti-abortion group to organize at the institution’s campus in downtown Montreal.
On Thursday Nov. 12, the Student Society of McGill University (SSMU) passed a motion 16 to 7 in favour of suspending the club status of Choose Life, an anti-abortion organization that holds affiliated chapters across Canada.
The decision to suspend the group followed an unsuccessful attempt to revoke the group’s club status altogether.
According to students organizing against Choose Life’s tactics, the group has disseminated materials that present erroneous views and information on the health effects of abortion, including a pamphlet that links abortion to increased risk of breast and cervical cancer.
Ivan Neilson, president of SSMU, said that while the student council does not hold an official stance on abortion, Choose Life’s actions infringed on the safety of several members of the student body.
“We’ve received several complaints from our students that they felt harassed, that they felt that their safety has come into question and that they felt personally attacked,” Neilson told CBC News.
Addressing the content exhibited in the group’s materials, Neilson noted the appearance of a number of pamphlets containing “questionable statistics from questionable sources,” at sites throughout the campus.
Other tensions surround the group’s earlier decision to sponsor a talk led by Jose Ruba, co-founder of the controversial anti-abortion organization, the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform (CCBER).
The lecture, entitled “Echoes of the Holocaust,” was censured by the SSMU over concerns that it would involve comparisons between abortion and the Holocaust, and the depiction of women who have had abortions as Nazis. The CCBER has been known in the past for their strategies that juxtapose images of unborn fetuses against historical footage of genocide, a tactic used by the the well-known and controversial Genocide Awareness Project.
Early on, Ruba’s lecture was disrupted and subsequently shut down by 15 protestors, an action that culminated in the arrests of two protestors on mischief charges.
Responding to accusations of misconduct, Choose Life president and founder Natalie Fohl believes that the group did not contravene SSMU’s equity policy, and contends that it is her club’s mandate to advocate for “the respect of human life and human rights,” which in their view begins at conception. Throughout her rebuttal, Fohl described fetuses as victims of oppression.
“The goal of our group is to promote the well-being of all persons, including those discriminated against based on age,” Fohl told reporters from the McGill student press.
Later, Fohl expressed dismay that the group’s activities at McGill were received negatively and as violating any of the student council’s policies, but says that Choose Life will concede to the demands outlined by the suspension order.
“It’s really unfortunate that they see what we do, just promoting discussion on life issues, trying to provide information on child development and abortion and things like that, as breaking any SSMU procedures,” said Fohl.
A condition of the suspension prohibits Choose Life from using university property for organizing purposes, cuts their access to council funding, and requires that they meet with the SSMU executive to discuss the situation.
Anti-abortion organisations have set up graphic displays a number of times this past semester at the University of Toronto.
Life with Post-Traumatic Stress
January 7, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Gursevak Kasbia
War has many consequences for mental health. Whether it be innocent bystanders who were in the wrong place at the wrong time, or a soldier who just happened to see his fellow battalion member’s limb destroyed. The scars of these events may harm victims months or even years from the moment they happened. The term “shell shocked” has been used to describe the horror faced by many veterans, but in order to appreciate the true nature of mental health and the traumatic experience one must respect the severity of the issue at hand.
Of the top ten leading diseases causing disability in the workplace four are considered neuropsychological, accounting for over thirty percent of total disability and twelve percent of the overall disease burden globally. This statistic is expected to rise to fifteen per cent by the year 2020. The ongoing war in Afghanistan, and a culture of fear have highlighted mental health issues.
One can look no further than watching an American network to find advertisements for anti-depressants and sedative hypnotics for sleep as a culture of constant stress and even violence harms the health of “the first world.” While these advertisements are illegal in Canada, rates of prescriptions for these drugs have skyrocketed in recent years. This being said, everyday prolonged stressors completely differ from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which many victims including soldiers after battle and rape and sexual abuse survivors suffer as the result of a traumatic experience or episode that may have occurred. More acute forms of depression and anxiety can often be healed with counseling and medication.
From the killings at US Army Base Fort Bragg, to Canadian soldiers committing suicide after their missions in Afghanistan, the military has learned the harsh reality of neglected mental health. With traumatic events on the rise, PTSD has risen to the forefront of mental health research. Various “treatments” have been touted to work, but for sufferers the memories still linger. The neuro-physiology of PTSD is unlike many neurologically based disorders. In particular, frightening images in the months or even years after the event are common amongst suffers.
Many victims commonly avoid any type of event or stimuli, that may be perceived as a trigger for the initial episode. Some victims may even enter a state of hyper-arousal, where stimulation of the amygdala (the fear centre of the brain) contributes to a lack of sleep and extreme sensitivity of the senses. The biochemical changes as well are pronounced since many victims seem to have lower cortisol concentrations but higher secretion of catecholemines in urine. Cortisol is the bodies naturally occurring stress hormone and in depressive patients is found in higher concentrations, while catecholemines in a lower concentration.
PTSD is quite unique in that it involves catecholemines in a greater ratio to cortisol. Other key features of PTSD are brain imaging studies which have revealed that the amygdale; the prime brain structure involved in arousal and fear, is consistently more active than in those suffering with anxiety disorders and depression. Treatment for PTSD is very complex, yet modern research using state of the art technologies have found that psychotherapy in combination with cognitive behavioural therapy and medication, can allow for some victims to regain control of their lives.
For instance, recent research at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland have focused on everything from repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS); a type of non-invasive magnetic stimulation, to the use of medications such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (anti-depressants) and even glucocorticoids, which can suppress the anxiety while impair memory consolidation immediately after the event. Cognitive behavioural therapy has also been found to change victims thought processes to allow them to recognise and channel them away from the episode into a more calm state.
Other therapies include exposure therapy, which has also been hailed as an effective way for patients to confront the trauma and is accomplished through reprocessing the memories slowly to habituate the victim to the episode. While this behavioural neuro-cognitive approach to treatment seems to work, it is important to note that therapy must be catered to the individual being treated. Even with psychiatrists such as Dr. Amin Muhammad indicating recently that PTSD may be over diagnosed. Perhaps the real issue is that more individuals and the medical community in general have learned more about the disorder allowing for clearer differential diagnoses. Still with greater numbers of PTSD, depression and anxiety suffering in society raise the question, could more funding for prevention and treatment of mental health needs be addressed?
HBC ads erase Indigenous history
January 7, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Graeme Z. Johnson
The latest ad campaign for the Hudson’s Bay Company’s 2010 Olympic clothing line appears to be aimed at not only selling comfortable knitwear, but revising Canadian history as well.
Television spots from this campaign feature a montage of (mostly) white men they refer to as “pioneers, explorers and dreamers” braving their way through a barren “land of rock, ice and snow.” The sentimental string soundtrack reaches its stately swell as, across the screen, smugly spread the words “We were made for this.”
The ‘we’ the commercial refers to is made explicit when the commercial’s narrator tells viewers that “We arrived [in Canada] 340 years ago.”
Even the most cursory history of the Hudson’s Bay Company cannot fail to recognize the contributions of Indigenous population to the success of the fur trade and the very existence of the Hudson’s Bay Company itself. However, the advertisements choose not to mention those contributions, instead focusing on the white European colonists and their intrepid adventures.
Perhaps most ironic is the fact that some of the clothing advertised, namely the extremely popular hand-knit sweater (retail price $350), are counterfeit copies of Indigenous designs. Vancouver Island’s Cowichan Tribes, who make the genuine article, initially offered to make the sweaters for HBC, but were turned down in favour of a non-Aboriginal company.
HBC’s disrespect and erasure of First Nations history is just another item in a growing list of offences the Vancouver Olympics has perpetrated against Canada’s Indigenous people, a list that includes (but is not limited to) the fact that much of British Columbia occupies illegally colonized land (practically no treaties were made during European settlement) and the fact that Indigenous images and art have been appropriated to make the Olympic logos and medals.
HBC declined to comment on the advertisements.
Remembering the dead: Trans Day of Remembrance
January 7, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Mason McColl
November 20 marked the tenth anniversary of the Trans Day of Remembrance. The first TDoR took place on that date in 1999 in San Francisco, as a memorial in honour of a transwoman named Rita Hester who was murdered in Boston. Transgender communities around the world gather on November 20 to mourn the lives of those killed because of transphobic and gender-based hate and violence.
The statistics around transphobic violence are staggering, and provide a glimpse into the impacts that transphobia have on transgendered and transsexual communities. According to numbers put out by the FBI, in the United States, trans people are 18 times more likely to be victims of murder. In Canada, at least one trans person is killed each month. These numbers, while already high, do not account for the many trans people whose deaths go unreported, and those whose trans statuses are not reported, nor does it include the high number of trans people who are driven to suicide by intolerance, indifference, poverty and isolation.
When looking at the names of the victims of transphobic violence, which are collected and can be found at www.rememberingourdead.com, it’s important to take note that the majority of names being read belonged to transwomen of colour, many of whom were sex workers. The lack of awareness and tolerance within the legal, health, education, social service and justice systems all work against trans people, and we see the affects that this type of ignorance have on trans people most overwhelmingly when we recognize the intersection of sexism, racism, sex-worker stigma and homophobia.
Trans Day of Remembrance serves several purposes. Vigils held around the world work to raise public awareness about transphobia and hate crimes against trans people. These events also create a space to publicly mourn and honour the lives of those who might otherwise be forgotten. The day gives us an opportunity to publicly and collectively recognize and acknowledge, and express love and respect for those members of the trans community who have been lost in the face of indifference and hate.
While the date holds a solemn tone, many communities use it to send a positive message. The public is asked to take the knowledge raised back to their own communities, and work together to educate people and fight against transphobia and gender-based violence. “Let’s not let these deaths be in vain. Let’s use our shared experience here tonight as an opportunity to begin to discuss gender freedom with our friends, families and coworkers.”
“The U.S. and Canada cannot Give us democracy”
January 7, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Suspended Afghan MP Malalai Joya speaks in Toronto
Iftekhar Kabir
In a recent article for In These Times, Noam Chomsky spoke of her as one of the “truly worthy choices” for the Nobel Peace Prize. At age 31, suspended Afghan MP, Malalai Joya, already has more than a decade of experience resisting oppression and injustice. From her teen years spent in refugee camps, she has been working towards grassroots social development by helping provide education and health care to war-torn people. For her years of work she has recently been dubbed, “the bravest woman in Afghanistan.” she spoke on November 18 at the Trinity-St. Paul’s United Chuch in Toronto.
Malalai Joya came to prominence internationally in 2003, when she decided to speak out against the presence of “criminals” and “warlords” at the Loya Jirga – the national convention that approved the constitution of Afghanistan. In 2005, at the age of 27, she was the youngest member to be elected to the Wolesi Jirga (National Assembly of Afghanistan) as a representative of her home province of Farah. Since then, Joya has repeatedly faced persecution in her work. Apart from being suspended from the parliament in 2007 for her outspoken criticism of the country’s top officials, Joya has survived four assassination attempts. While in Afghanistan, she is always escorted by bodyguards and is forced to sleep in safe houses. Out of concern for his safety, she refuses to name her husband. Joya is not her real name; yet, there is no hesitation when she speaks. Addressing an audience of more than 400 people, Joya was adamant that, “liberation and democracy will not come from the barrel of a gun.”
The event included other speakers who welcomed Joya on her return to Toronto and thanked her for speaking. Vicki Obedkoff, a minister from Trinity-St. Paul’s, York University student Nila Zameni, American war resister Kimberly Rivera and New Democratic Party MP, Olivia Chow, all spoke before Joya. Chow reminded the audience that it was Joya’s address at the 2006 NDP national convention that led the party to overwhelmingly pass a resolution calling for an end to the war in Afghanistan. It was that same message to end war and occupation that Joya impressed upon the audience.
Joya told the audience how she was initially hesitant to write her book. She found her struggles to be commonplace amongst the Afghani people. But her co-author – Canadian activist, documentary filmmaker and writer, Derrick O’Keefe – convinced her to tell the stories, as it would allow her to “write about the lives of others who struggle.” These are the people Joya felt were neglected by mainstream media. She felt the world, if truly concerned about the people of Afghanistan, needed to support the work of these “activists and democratically minded people who work for social justice.”
She believes what the world mostly gets are the stories of the horrors in Afghanistan, such as the brutalities perpetrated against the women and children. The US-led intervention within the region is premised on bringing democracy to the Afghan people and ensuring human rights, especially the rights of women and children. Instead, Joya finds these so-called forces of democracy are negotiating with “warlords” and “druglords,” and legitimating their corrupt practices. The NATO-backed alliance is brandishing “criminals in suits” as moderates and as proponents of democracy. As Joya says, “they have established a puppet regime, full of people who are photocopies of the Taliban.”
Referring to a Human Rights Watch report, she noted, “since 2001 65,000 civilians have died in Afghanistan, while only 2,000 Taliban fighters have been killed.” The daily lives of the people of Afghanistan are progressively being mired in “corruption, poverty, injustice, violence and joblessness.”
“My people have no faith in these puppets and their government.”
Speaking on the state of women, Joya brought up the Shia family law. President Hamid Karzai signed this law, which restricts women from refusing to have sex with their husbands, and does not allow them to visit a doctor without the husband’s permission. Joya pointed out that now, under “so-called democracy,” people can legitimately perpetuate misogyny. She told the audience of an incident where a young girl had been raped by the son of an MP. He was not brought to justice. The MP was able to create documents that altered his son’s age to less than 18, rendering him ineligible for prosecution under Afghan Law.
Joya points out that there are some women in Parliament, as it is now constitutionally mandated. However, these women have internalized the oppression. To them, “the Taliban is their father and the Taliban is their brother,” so they do not challenge the cycle of oppression and stand up for their rights or those of other women. “Your government lies that they brought democracy and women’s rights to Afghanistan. The U.S. government and its allies have pushed us from the frying pan into the fire.”
To truly help the people of the region, Joya believes the international forces need to leave immediately. According to her, “the people of Afghanistan are fighting two enemies … the occupation forces who bomb from above and the Taliban who kill and torture on the ground.” She feels that “the casualties of both are the innocent people,” and that “the NATO led forces must leave” because “it is much easier for us to fight one enemy.”
Joya speaks from a proud sense of history when she asks for the immediate withdrawal. She believes that her people, “who have never accepted occupation,” should have the opportunity to rebuild their own society.”
“We know what to do with our own destiny. Our freedom is our own responsibility.” She tells the audience, “if you want to help us then raises your voices against your governments. Raise your arms in solidarity with my people.”
This pride is not deluded by naiveté, as she makes clear during the question and answer period. Joya realizes that the withdrawal of the troops does not mean that peace will be established. As she says, “I cannot tell you how long it [peace] will take.” Yet, she is adamant that it can only come through a patient labor that her people have to perform. She reiterates that “ the US and Canada cannot gift us democracy.”
