Talk:Hedy Fry

Biography assessment rating comment
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Edofedinburgh 01:39, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
 * This is one of the worst biographies I have ever read. Line by line information rather then proper paragraphs. It's been five years since the above comment was left and no one has done anything to make this a better biography? Well, I guess I have to learn sometime.

Country of birth
Since the name of the country is "Trinidad and Tobago" it's more accurate to use that, rather that just the name of the biggest/most populous island. Guettarda 19:01, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Gotcha. Ground Zero 19:04, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Favorite Target
I don't think she's a favorite target for anyone (I've never heard of her) and it sounds like there are much better reasons for her being a target than those listed. TastyCakes 19:40, 28 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Jay Hill (MP for only part of northern Prince George and the Peace River Region) loves to attack Hedy Fry in local debates. In fact he never shuts up about how she smeared the 'good' people of Prince George; he mentioned it at a forum in the lead up to the 2004 election.  It's funny as Jay Hill (and his mother according to some locals) has used racist language and remarks in public several times (see his article for the most widely reported one).  Maybe Hedy Fry confused Prince George with Fort St. John, as once a building was partially set on fire and swastikas were spray painted on it too (I can see how she could make that mistake).--RPlunk 18:32, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Anti-American Conference
The Conference section is misleading. The partial title implies that the conference was "anti-imperialist" while it was actually called "Women's Resistance: From Victimization to Criminalization". It was actually planned to be about anti-sexism and hate and was obviously called well in advance. It was co-sponsored by the Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres and the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, fairly innocuous organizations. The conference wasn't inherently controversial and there was only one high-profile anti-American speech by Sunera Thobani, a UBC prof. and former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women. --JGGardiner 00:43, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Prenominal title
I am removing her prenominal title from the top as per per Manual of Style (biographies). --JGGardiner 00:38, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Post-Nominals
Some postnominals were removed and marked them "meaningless" in the edit summary. Personally I'm not a fan of including postnominals anyway but those weren't meaningless (or vandalism if that's what was meant). LRCPSI (Licentiate Royal College of Phyicians and Surgeons of Ireland) is the Irish equivalent of an FRCP]. An LM is a Licentiate in Midwifery (also Irish) which apparently she has. --JGGardiner 19:43, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

She did not threaten America. When you read the link text, she was actually talking about human right violations and why were we not going after all countires that were threatening America, not just a few. Your section reads a little misleading.

Question
I may be wrong, I suppose, but I was under the impression that, rather like Ian Hanomansing and Neil Bissoondath, Hedy Fry's heritage was within Trinidad's Asian community rather than its black community — however, in Electoral firsts in Canada, she is referenced as a Black Canadian, although she hasn't been added to either the Black Canadians category or List of Black Canadians. Also, Jean Augustine's article calls Augustine the first black woman to serve as a cabinet minister — but Fry was in cabinet before Augustine was, so if Fry is black then she's the first black woman cabinet minister, not Augustine.

Can anybody clarify whether Hedy Fry should in fact be listed and categorized as a Black Canadian, or was my impression that she's of Asian descent correct? Bearcat 22:41, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I thought so as well, but one article from 1993 states that the caucus "includes two black women, Augustine and Vancouver's Hedy Fry, who's from Trinidad" ("Chretien's B Team reflects street-level Canada." Joe Sornberger. The Ottawa Citizen. Ottawa, Ont.: Dec 11, 1993. pg. B.4) - SimonP 02:06, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I had thought that Fry was actually a Black Canadian. Her website shows several awards from such organizations.  --JGGardiner 09:48, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Hedy Fry is Not Black
On The House (Feb. 1, 2020, in a discussion, ironically, about the underrepresentation of Black Canadians in Parliament!) Hedy Fry said she had no African ancestry. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thehouse/canadians-want-expanded-access-to-medical-assistance-in-dying-says-lametti-1.5446731/how-well-are-black-canadians-represented-in-parliament-1.5446745

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