TORONTO, Nov. 24 (JTA) – The Canadian Human Rights Commission is probing complaints that Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel, a Toronto resident, is using his Web site to promote hatred on the Internet. Although Zundel’s Web site is based in California, the commission has jurisdiction over the site because it has authority over all telephonic communications in Canada, said Maxwell Yalden, the commission’s chief. “The signal’s being picked up here, and where it’s originating doesn’t make any difference,” he said.
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