I, Ashu M. G. Solo, filed the following:

1. Civil rights case against the City of Saskatoon (Mayor's Office) and Councillor Randy Donauer for prayer recitations at government organized events

2. Code of Conduct complaint against Mayor Don Atchison for potential online campaign advertising violations

3. Civil rights case against the City of Saskatoon (Saskatoon Transit Services) for promoting holidays from only one religion on city buses

4. Human rights complaint against the City of Saskatoon (Executive Committee) for retaliating against me by not reappointing me to the Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee and not appointing me to another civic committee or board

5. Human rights complaint against the City of Saskatoon (City Solicitor’s Office) for retaliating against me by trying to deprive me of my right to directly communicate with members of City Council and by telling employees of other City of Saskatoon departments to not talk to me

6. Human rights complaint against the City of Saskatoon (Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Office) and City of Saskatoon (Living in Harmony Ad Hoc Subcommittee of Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee) for retaliating against me by not considering my submissions to the Living in Harmony Contest

This site contains my media releases, some case documents, emails to City Council, etc.

I don't waste my time arguing with opponents.

The backlash makes me much more determined to fight against bigotry and shows the need for these civil rights cases, so I'll be filing more civil rights cases. You ain't seen nothing yet.

Monday, February 25, 2013

MEDIA ALERT: Executive Committee retains Christmas messages on buses and I will proceed with my civil rights complaint to the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission



From: Ashu M. G. Solo [mailto:amgsolo@mavericktechnologies.us]
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 10:56 PM
To: amgsolo@mavericktechnologies.us
Subject: MEDIA ALERT: Executive Committee retains Christmas messages on buses and I will proceed with my civil rights complaint to the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission

Dear Media,

The City of Saskatoon’s Executive Committee, which is composed of the mayor and city councillors, is retaining the Christmas messages on buses and not doing anything about including messages for holidays from other religions.  Therefore, I will proceed with a complaint to the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission.  I will file the civil rights complaint on Monday, March 4, 2013. 

March is the City of Saskatoon’s Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Month.  By filing the complaint in March, this will highlight the hypocrisy of the City of Saskatoon about respecting cultural diversity.  On one hand, they spend a lot of money on events promoting respect for cultural diversity.  On the other hand, they retain Christmas messages on buses and won’t even include holiday messages for any of the other over 10,000 religions.  Government actions like this make people mistakenly think that this is a Christian city and Christian country. 

The Executive Committee had referred this issue to the Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee.  Representatives on the Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee had really different views about what to do regarding my complaint.  They couldn’t agree on a recommendation for the Executive Committee.  Therefore, the Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee decided to take no action on my complaint and simply send their comments from their last meeting to the Executive Committee, so the Executive Committee can make a more informed decision.  Comments from the last meeting of the Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee can be seen in an advisory committee report in the Executive Committee agenda at
http://www.saskatoon.ca/DEPARTMENTS/City%20Clerks%20Office/Boards%20and%20Committees/agendasandminutes/Documents/agendas_2013/a_ex_250213.pdf.  Note that the advisory committee report from the Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee does not include comments from their deliberations during a private retreat in January 2013.  The Executive Committee decided to simply receive this advisory committee report and not take any further actions on my complaint. 

I think the Executive Committee caved in to the public backlash.  I think they didn’t consider including messages for holidays from other religions because they realized that it’s impossible to cover them all.  It’s impossible because there are over 10,000 religions, 150 of which have one million or more followers.  This doesn’t include branches of each religion.  These numerous religions were documented by David Barrett, as can be seen at www.adherents.com/misc/WCE.html.

I’m going to see if I can amalgamate my prayer recitation complaint and Christmas message complaint into one case, which will keep costs down.  I believe that I can do this because both have to do with religious discrimination and both are against the City of Saskatoon, but the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission will determine if the complaints can be amalgamated into one case.  Because I’m attempting to amalgamate the Christmas message complaint and prayer recitation complaint into one case, this will delay the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission from proceeding to mediation with the prayer recitation complaint and will delay me from giving them authorization to do so by signing their form. 

Best regards,

Ashu M. G. Solo

Saturday, February 23, 2013

MEDIA ALERT: Executive Committee resuming deliberations on Feb. 25 about my civil rights complaint regarding Christmas messages on buses


From: Ashu M. G. Solo [mailto:amgsolo@mavericktechnologies.us]
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 12:39 AM
To: amgsolo@mavericktechnologies.us
Subject: MEDIA ALERT: Executive Committee resuming deliberations on Feb. 25 about my civil rights complaint regarding Christmas messages on buses

Dear Media:

At a public meeting on Monday, February 25, 2013, the City of Saskatoon’s Executive Committee, which is composed of the mayor and city councillors, will be resuming its deliberations about my civil rights complaint regarding Christmas messages on buses.  The meeting will be held in City Hall committee room A at 1:00 PM.  The committee agenda can be seen at

The Executive Committee had referred this issue to the Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee.  Representatives on the Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee had really different views about what to do regarding my complaint.  They couldn’t agree on a recommendation for the Executive Committee.  Therefore, the Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee decided to take no action on my complaint and simply send their comments to the Executive Committee, so the Executive Committee can make a more informed decision.  The agenda at the link above includes comments from the last meeting of the Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee on this issue.  They also discussed this issue at a private retreat.

The only practical, fair, and nondiscriminatory policy is to not have messages for religious holidays on programmable signs of Saskatoon Transit buses.  You can see select correspondence with the City of Saskatoon and Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission on my complaints at http://atchison-discrimination.blogspot.ca

Best regards,

Ashu M. G. Solo

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

MEDIA ADVISORY: Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission Finds Reasonable Grounds to Proceed with Complaint against Councillor Donauer and City of Saskatoon (Mayor’s Office)

MEDIA ADVISORY:  Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission Finds Reasonable Grounds to Proceed with Complaint against Councillor Donauer and City of Saskatoon (Mayor’s Office)

SASKATOON, SK, Feb. 19, 2013 - The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has completed a legal opinion finding that there is sufficient evidence of reasonable grounds to believe that the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code was violated when Mayor Don Atchison called on Councillor Randy Donauer to try to lead a diverse audience in a Christian prayer on April 18, 2012 at a Volunteer Appreciation Banquet organized by the Mayor's Office.  SHRC found that there is reasonable grounds to believe that the prayer recitation violated the freedom of conscience guaranteed by section 4 of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code and discriminated on the prohibited grounds of religion and creed contrary to section 12 of the code.

Therefore, SHRC will be proceeding with a formal complaint by Ashu M. G. Solo against Donauer and the City of Saskatoon (Mayor’s Office).  Before there is a hearing on the complaint, it may be investigated and mediated. 

Solo filed the civil rights complaint on May 1, 2012 after Atchison and Donauer refused to stop having Christian prayer recitations at civic events.   “He who is clad in the armor of a righteous cause can defeat the armies of intolerance,” Solo said.

For further information:

Ashu M. G. Solo


Thursday, February 14, 2013

MEDIA ALERT: Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee reached no decision about my civil rights complaint regarding Christmas messages on buses

From: Ashu M. G. Solo [mailto:amgsolo@mavericktechnologies.us] 
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 2:30 PM
Subject: MEDIA ALERT: Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee reached no decision about my civil rights complaint regarding Christmas messages on buses

Dear Media:

At a public meeting today, the City of Saskatoon’s Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee continued its deliberations about my civil rights complaint regarding Christmas messages on buses.  

Representatives on the Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee had really different views about what to do regarding my complaint.  They couldn’t agree on a recommendation for the Executive Committee.  Therefore, the Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee decided to take no action on my complaint and simply send the information that they received to the Executive Committee, so the Executive Committee can make a more informed decision.  The Executive Committee is composed of the city councillors and mayor.

I made a presentation to the committee on January 10, 2013 about my civil rights complaint and sent them significant written material on it.

I might not have the majority of public support, but I’m still right in my position  and in taking on this issue.  He who is clad in the armor of a righteous cause can be mightier than all who oppose him.  I don’t care if people hate me for my civil rights complaints because I’m not trying to win a popularity contest.  The advancement of liberty is more important than my popularity. 

The only practical, fair, and nondiscriminatory policy is to not have messages for religious holidays on programmable signs of Saskatoon Transit buses.  If the Executive Committee doesn’t come up with a fair and nondiscriminatory policy, I will proceed with a civil rights complaint to the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission. 

The racist and bigoted backlash for my prayer recitation complaint shows the need to make civil rights complaints like this and motivated me to make this Christmas message complaint.  The racist and bigoted backlash for this complaint motivates me to make more civil rights complaints in the future.  I will be filing more human rights complaints and will keep you informed.  You ain’t seen nothing yet.

Best regards,

Ashu M. G. Solo

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Pat Fiacco Extremely Unqualified to Be Regina Mayor

If you do boxing, you can be the mayor of Regina.  Wake up, Regina.  Wake up.  How did being an amateur boxer qualify Pat Fiacco to be the mayor of Regina?  I understand that he has no post-secondary education and never served on City Council or in other elective office before becoming the mayor.  When did the office of mayor become an entry-level position?  If being an amateur boxer qualifies someone to be a city mayor, does that mean a champion professional boxer like Mike Tyson is qualified to be the president?  Of course not.  If Pat Fiacco was qualified to be the mayor of Regina, then who isn't?  The election of Pat Fiacco made Regina the laughing stock of Saskatchewan.