Canada as seen through the Eyes of New Brunswick Editorial Cartoonists:
The Insight and Humour of Josh Beutel and Bill Hogan
Preface |
Introduction |
Editorial Cartoon Database |
Classroom Activities
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Bill Hogan, Moncton Times-Transcript, 1988-9-3
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Reference number: MC3224-44
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Scope and Content
The cartoon shows a person reading a newspaper open to a story on the Malcolm Ross Inquiry. The tattoo of a Concentration Camp number, "Auschwitz 21503", is used to convey that the Malcolm Ross Inquiry is about the denial of the Holocaust.
Title
Malcolm Ross inquiry
Persons
Malcolm Ross
- Former teacher at Magnetic Hill School in School District No. 15, New Brunswick
- Published anti-Semitic literature as a private citizen
- Board of inquiry removed him from teaching position upon complaints from a Jewish parent (remained employed by the school board for a time, later removed from employment altogether), 1988
- Argued Charter of Rights and Freedoms guaranteed him the right to freedom of expression and religion outside the classroom
- Supreme Court of Canada upheld the school board's decision, 1996