Years-long waits for human rights complaint hearings in Manitoba point to 'broken' system, lawyer says (https://www.cbc.ca/news/human-rights-complaint-hearings-wait-times-9.7357180)
QuoteA Winnipeg woman says almost five years after filing a human rights complaint related to her disability as an amputee, she's still waiting for an outcome.
"It's been frustrating. I just want a resolution," said Sandi Reimer. "It would be nice to put this behind me, but I'm not able to."
Reimer isn't the only one experiencing that frustration. A human rights lawyer says some of her clients are waiting upwards of 10 years to get their cases heard.
As of September, the average wait time between filing a complaint and the start of an investigation is about 22 months, Manitoba Human Rights Commission executive director Karen Sharma said in a statement to CBC News.
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It was Karen Sharma who responded to my correspondence with the Human Rights tribunal. As an avowed pronoun user, almost certainly prejudiced against my cause, but failed to recuse herself and appoint a more neutral party to my case.
Any "human rights" commission under this regime was guaranteed to be a jape from its inception. Now it's buckling under its own corrupt dead weight.
Quote from: Jotunn on Sep 30, 2026, 04:17 AMNow it's buckling under its own corrupt dead weight.
Happening everywhere, basically. The city gov't here is so dysfunctional now, even basic services are compromised. I was on hold over an hour today just to find out the automated account system was screwed up and reporting my water account no longer existed. Don't even get me started on the county courts. The corruption is exceeded only by the incompetence.
Separation/secession or revolution/civil war. One or the other has to happen. Otherwise we will be living in a dystopian nightmare beyond anything Orwell ever imagined.