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Illegal dish as a human rights issue?

HALIFAX – Now this… this is bold. Media outlets down east are covering a complaint by a Halifax man over his desire to have a satellite dish hookup in the apartment he and his family live in - which he has taken to the Human Rights Commission - according to a large story in yesterday's Halifax Chronicle Herald. As is common among building owners, the man's landlord doesn't allow individual tenants to have their own dishes (and most don't let tenants hang anything other than Christmas decorations outside their apartments). The thinking is that if individual dishes are allowed, it...