Pardy and her friends … including referring to them as 'f-king c-ts,' 'stupid c-ts,' 'stupid dykes' and 'f-king dyke c-ts,'" he wrote in the decision. Earle made two sets of comments from the stage at Zesty’s, to and about Ms. In his decision, tribunal member Murray Geiger-Adams ruled Pardy suffered adverse treatment from Earle and the owner of Zesty's restaurant. Human Rights Tribunal sided with Pardy and ruled Earle must pay her $15,000. The owner of the restaurant, Sam Ismail, was ordered to pay Pardy $7,500 for failing to prevent the incident. Earle claimed that Pardy threw two drinks in his face, and admitted he broke Pardy's sunglasses in a confrontation after the show.Įarle's lawyer later walked out of the Human Rights Tribunal hearing after claiming it was an illegal restriction on his client's freedom of speech.īut on Thursday, the B.C. Lorna Pardy filed a complaint in 2008 alleging she and her lesbian partner were the targets of the offensive comments made by Guy Earle, who was hosting the open mike night at Zesty's Restaurant on Commercial Drive in May 2007.Įarle did not deny he was offensive, but claimed Pardy and her same-sex partner first rudely heckled him along with the amateur comics on stage that night. A Toronto comic and a Vancouver restaurant owner have been ordered to pay a lesbian patron $22,500 in compensation over a tirade of insults, after the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal dismissed the comic's claim that his words were an appropriate response to a heckler.
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