BAPTIST GROUP URGES SOBEYS BOYCOTT AFTER GROCER’S APPEAL

Sobeys says it intends to withdraw an appeal of a human rights decision that found an employee discriminated against a black customer — but a group of 19 churches in Nova Scotia says the move doesn’t go far enough. “They want to cut a cheque, they want to withdraw the appeal and say ‘ bye-bye’ and have no admittance of their wrongdoing,” said Rev. Lennett Anderson of the African United Baptist Association of Nova Scotia. A Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission independent board of inquiry determined last year that staff at a store in Tantallon, N.S., discriminated against Andrella David in 2009 after falsely accusing her of being a repeat shoplifter. Sobeys spokeswoman Shauna Selig said the company expects to finalize a resolution “shortly” to withdraw the appeal.