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@JacobAShell Are you surprised? The reality is that Trump and people like him don't really care about universities unless they have to. Meanwhile these sorts of events are clear embarassments for the Dems.

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@mspratt @PierrePoilievre What conversations are those, Michael? If you disclaim the possibility of more enforcement, more restrictive bail and harsher punishment, what's actually left on the table?

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I'll take this as an admission that the claims about "mass graves" made in 2021 were not in fact substantiated.

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@TShampling When you must affirm kink but healthy sexual interactions are problematized as potential HR complaints.

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@stuartlosaltos Remember the vagina hats? Feels like a lifetime ago.

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@oliverburkeman Quite strange that so many people believe that the bald assertion that something is transphobic is some sort of slam-dunk "argument".

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This is the crux of why "woke" stuff irritates many people. It is one thing to change the way one uses words to accommodate a specific individual, and another thing entirely to upend the whole of our language because someone, somewhere might take offense.

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FIRST READING: Supreme Court decision say that the word 'woman' is confusing, 'unfortunate'

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What needs to be emphasized is that this move is only politically viable because our courts have made a mess of things over the last decade+.

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Pierre Poilievre prepares to embrace the notwithstanding clause — and all its controversy

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New from me for @nationalpost : If there is an electoral opportunity in pledging to use the Parliamentary supremacy clause, then the courts have only themselves to blame.

Stéphane Sérafin: Only because of our activist Supreme Court is the notwithstanding clause necessary

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@feelsdesperate It's also the most straightforwardly evil.

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The idea that the federal government is not already skewing universities in favour of its ideological priorities is hogwash. Very grateful to @sarkonakj for this piece cutting through the gaslighting b.s.

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Jamie Sarkonak: Liberal encroachment into universities deserves provincial pushback via @nationalpost

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It's absolutely chilling, as someone who was broadly supportive of Carter and a whole host of similar "advancements", to watch those who warned of a slippery slope be so consistently proven right.

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Calgary judge rules woman with autism can seek Medical Assistance in Dying

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@chorkins @StewartCattroll @FullStopTeam @uocommonlaw @JeanDesgranges @BGG_Coalition @LawSocietyLSO Are you seriously contending that it's hateful to point out that the cultural left's fixation on drag shows for children is weird and, dare I say it, a bit predatory? Or would you go further and say that it's hateful to oppose drag shows for kids regardless of the language used?

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The Charter, including s. 33, is a distinctively Canadian compromise and those currently trying to undermine it are American-brained commentators who would prefer if we had an absolute Bill of Rights (interpreted by judges they like).

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The not-so-secret-secret here is that Anglo-Canadian cultural elites are absolutely poisoned on American culture war narratives in a way that is not nearly as true of elites elsewhere (including in Quebec).

Wesley Yang

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Child sex changes are one of those strange issues in which Canada seems to prefer being aligned with the US than with the UK and the social democracies of Northern Europe

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The problem with this framework, fundamentally, is that it seeks to address real distributional injustices by creating clear injustice in individual cases. If Simpson murdered his wife, then he deserved to be punished for it. No amount of "systemic racism" can change that.

Marc Lamont Hill

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O.J. Simpson was an abusive liar who abandoned his community long before he killed two people in cold blood. His acquittal for murder was the correct and necessary result of a racist criminal legal system. But he’s still a monster, not a martyr.

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I'm all for prosecuting white collar crime, but let's not downplay the special severity of physical acts of violence. The possibility of being stabbed on transit impacts my life in much more direct ways than someone skimming my pension fund.

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If we must have prisons they should be full of white collar criminals who ripped off working class people.

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@yuanyi_z Why does "accessibility" always imply a reduction in standards?

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@Lorian_H Yes and no doubt Quebec will as well but I expect that you don't take issue with that

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The thing with Canada is that so much of the "support" for stuff like no-questions-asked pediatric gender transitions is astroturfed by the federal government. Expect a massive shift the moment the money taps get turned off by a change in government.

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I predict Canada will be the last domino left standing

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It's quite unfortunate that Trudeau politicized the initial announcement because he wanted to have his own "BLM" moment. But it did happen, and pretending that it didn't because it might benefit someone like Black is not going to change anything.

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@CamdenHutchison @whstancil From what I've gathered, there is no reason to think that he is discussing race, specifically. But he has to be condemned out of concern that bad actors will then use the conclusions to justify discrimination. Which does not follow.

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@ZaidJilani Prosecutors are not elected in either of Toronto or London. But in the case of Toronto I would fully expect someone with a similar set of ideas to pop up if they were.

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@maxfawcett Which rights, exactly, are the Conservatives coming for Max? Would you not at the very least agree that striking down a 90-day minimum sentence for sexual interference constitutes judicial overreach that invites this kind of corrective?

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@mspratt @PierrePoilievre Again, you're the one who suggested that he's distracting us from the "real conversation", so let's have it.

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@eric_r_2 @suzania "I was raised Catholic" is absolutely undefeated.

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@NickSchiavo_ Please point to the "attacks" that undermine the "safety and well-being of students". I have expressed reservations about a proposed piece of legislation. Only someone whose basic sense of decency has been poisoned by ideology would think that tagging my boss is appropriate.

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@amdaddeo @eigenrobot @KyleKallgren Interesting because the test is quite revealing of what OP thinks is "fascist". Basically, if you believe in standards that make something what it is (i.e., it's not art if it isn't x, y or z) then you are a "fascist".

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@mspratt @PierrePoilievre I'm more interested in hearing what you have to say, since you were the one who suggested that there is a conversation to be had. But by all means, if you require assistance...

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@evefairbanks So you're saying that we shouldn't push back on it because the takeover isn't yet complete?

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Quite apart from the substance of the motion, the willingness of the National Assembly to condemn the Supreme Court of Canada in this way is surely one of the best aspects of Quebec's political culture. Anglo Canada has much to learn here.

Martine Biron

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En choisissant de ne pas utiliser le mot «femme», nous les invisibilisons. Après tant d’années de combat, les droits des femmes doivent continuer d’être respectés. Très fière de l’adoption à l’unanimité de cette motion.

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The most depressing part of this interview is the CBC journalist's constant suggestion that the only reason Widdowson or anyone else might want to debunk the "mass graves" story is either profit or racism. The possibility that she cares about the truth is rejected out of hand.

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A furor in Quesnel BC over a book and the mayor's role: a microcosm of the insanity that is @JustinTrudeau Canada: The interviewer, Professor Frances Widdowson, claims "this is the craziest interview I have ever done":

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Fortunately the Charter's framers wisely contemplated this possibility and, rather than going further down a Lochner-style rabbit hole, provided our elected representatives with a way of correcting judicial overreach.

Michael Hettrick

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@maxfawcett The judges using a hypothetical criminal to say that a mass murderer can't face consecutive sentences are harming the Charter far more than Poilievre ever could.

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The correct view is that we are always free to disobey laws we dislike, but we are duty-bound to bear the consequences of doing so.

Nora Loreto

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Civil disobedience is the act of breaking laws because we think we are right. That's literally what it is.

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What she's "tilting at" should be obvious. Anyone who isn't explicitly "woke", let alone "convervative", can tell you that working in a university these days is challenging. I consider leaving to do something more worthwhile every single day.

Blueprint for Canada 🇨🇦

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Every province needs to establish an independent commission to ensure research grants are distributed in a manner that is ideologically neutral. “Danielle Smith wants ideology 'balance' at universities. Alberta academics wonder what she's tilting at.” .

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@wesyang That's the epistemic foundation. To be "woke" is adopting a Schmittian friend/enemy politics that builds on this idea.

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No it means I really want my wife's input on this as I don't want to surprise her with a potentially big decision she doesn't like.

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Oh my sweet summer child 😂 When someone of either sex says “let me ask my husband/wife” it means “No, and I can’t be bothered to explain to you why”

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Notably, there is nothing "legal" about these resolutions. They are simply expressions of the political preferences of those who happened to be on the relevant committees. Unclear what this has to do with the mandate of the CBA, which is a trade lobby for the legal profession.

Jamie Sarkonak

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This just looks like the organization has been captured by people who want to craft social policy. Instead of running for public office, they piggyback on the prestige of the profession to call for political change that has nothing to do with the practice of law.

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I don't get this blaming the notwithstanding clause for restricting our freedoms when the courts have been more than willing to curtail those freedoms on their own.

Dr Jordan B Peterson

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We have no such rights, sir. They were bargained away in the 1980's, with the "notwithstanding" clause in our constitution, which basically gives the government unlimited power to suspend what should be basic freedoms. And Canadians are seriously and appallingly asleep at the…

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There is nothing inherently objectionable with a decision, made by the relevant authority on procedure in the Legislative Assembly, to ban the wearing of an obviously political symbol in the Assembly.

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@feelsdesperate Still kind of funny that the push to demoralize everything ended up moralizing everything.

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Hot take perhaps, but incentivizing people to kill themselves to save money is bad, whether those incentives are pushed by governments or by private insurance companies through contract law.

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@WokeWatchCDN Assisted suicide shouldn't be illegal. In a free market, you can decide for yourself what you want. Our MAID program is evil because government sponsors it and foists it on people by using its healthcare monopoly to deny timely access to other medical services.

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A Constitution that wisely includes the Parliamentary supremacy clause, thereby allowing Parliament and the legislatures to do their part in ensuring that the Constitution serves this laudable purpose.

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@maxfawcett Nice walkback Max.

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@ssuther7 Can you give me a specific example of conduct that crosses the line, and that would be targeted by this proposed legislation? Because as with the Calgary By-law the core objection seems to be to the very fact that these events get protested, which raises serious questions.

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Using the Parliamentary supremacy clause no more "infringes" a right than a court decision applying the Charter. The only question is whether the courts or legislatures get the final say on the way Charter rights are specified.

Anthony Housefather

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Today the Quebec legislature once again preemptively used the notwithstanding clause. A friendly reminder. You may not care how it is used in one case but you will care when it is used the next time to unreasonably infringe on a right you care about.

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@chorkins And I'm someone who voted for Justin Trudeau twice, in 2015 and 2019. The @FullStopTeam has people who hold all sorts of political views. Indeed, that's the point.

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If there is no external reality or truth, then there can be no true justice, only power. But I would add that, if the word "woman" does not refer to an objective phenomenon, then there can be no recognition of the special vulnerabilities that women experience qua women, either.

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I wrote an op-ed on the dangerous theoretical foundations of gender theory (i.e. Judith Butler and Friedrich Nietzsche). Out today in the @nationalpost . ( @sarkonakj , @join_yv , @MLInstitute )

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@IRPlawyer Yes I'm sure that drinking on a patio at Disney is entirely analogous to intravenous drug use next to playground equipment.

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@DavidDecosimo I'm sure I don't need to tell you, but this type of "scholarship" is increasingly prevalent in most fields. We don't write on the subject itself, only on how it should be taught - and that usually means importing an explicitly ideological framework as the only way to approach it.

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@SeanCarleton @sstrvinmarvin Sean, surely you must recognize that the absence of a deliberate "hoax" does not in any way change the fact that the claims made in 2021 have not been substantiated. I'm not sure why you think that ignoring this serves the long-term interests of reconciliation.

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@IRPlawyer @FullStopTeam I think you'll find that I'm not particularly phased by this kind of threat. Not anymore, not ever again.

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@maxfawcett Guy you are literally responding to PP's invocation of "freedom" by saying that we should thank Pierre Trudeau for it

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@marissenmark As opposed to Trudeau's woke talking points, which give off extreme campus activist vibes but never seem to trigger this sort of objection...

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Très heureux d'apprendre que mon article avec @SunKerry et @xavierfm3 sur la Clause de Suprémacie Parlementaire a été cité avec approbation par la Cour d'appel du Québec aujourd'hui. Plus heureux encore d'apprendre du jugement de la Cour sur la question!

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The claims made in 2021 have not been substantiated. If you dislike Conrad Black, then maybe you should ask yourself why you're giving him an easy win by refusing to acknowledge this very basic fact.

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Happy Easter!

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@maxfawcett Okay come on. I'm hardly a billionaire and it is obviously costing me more than without a carbon tax. You can make the point about lower-income people getting more back than they pay without lying.

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New from me: some brief comments on and highlights from the Quebec Court of Appeal's February 29 decision on Quebec's Bill 21 and the use of section 33 of the Charter.

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Stéphane Sérafin ( @finseraste ): The Quebec Court of Appeal affirms that the legislature has the last word

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Université Laval professor fired over his COVID vaccine-sceptical views. Absolutely bizarre that we're still here in 2024.

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Ma réaction au congédiement de Patrick Provost ( @provost_patrick ). J’espère que je ne serai pas le seul professeur à réagir.

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@Anthony__Koch Imagine thinking your rights come from the Charter.

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@feelsdesperate A feature, not a bug, of their moral worldview is that they still love all that due process stuff when it benefits those they deem "oppressed".

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Not to put too fine a point on it but if a "human right to a private and family life" means a duty on the state to adopt specific policies on carbon emissions then the "human right to a private and family life" means pretty much anything and everything.

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I'm calling for a total shutdown of international human rights law until we can figure out what the hell is going on

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@jonkay @CanLawMag @FullStopTeam @LawSocietyLSO Interesting also that he omitted his own contributions to the "polarizing discourse".

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@wesyang It is quite funny that all these boundary-pushers we were told were actually good people even if they offended our aesthetic sense may have turned out to be precisely as our aesthetic sense suggested they are.

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@JamesMoore_org @CamdenHutchison Genuinely curious: why do you think it's a "cheap American culture war"? Is it because you don't think CRT is burning through Canadian institutions or because you think CRT is good?

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@TShampling @wesyang @AliceFromQueens I've already asked to be taken off core 1L classes next year because they've made it clear they're expecting me to incorporate an explicitly postcolonial perspective in my teaching of those courses. This stuff is consuming everything.

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I concur with most of this, with a slight quibble at point 1: what Charter rights mean is absolutely up to Parliament, but courts normally get the power to review Parliament's decisions based on their own interpretation. Courts lose the ability to do so when s. 33 is invoked.

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There is a sleight of hand that politicians and critics are using by fear-mongering over the use of the notwithstanding clause. The notwithstanding clause is not nuclear; it can be applied precisely to curb excessive judicial interpretations that extend far beyond the plain…

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It is probably true that non-democratic institutions are necessary for the proper functioning of a broadly "democratic" system. But to turn around and call the non-democratic institutions "democratic" because of this is the mark of a profoundly unserious political culture.

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@MattHar65517869 Courts (in a democracy) are very much democratic institutions, because they are essential to how democracy functions, just as brakes on a car are essential to the car's functioning. Making judges elective undermines, not strengthens, their democratic credentials.

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@stuartlosaltos Being allowed to just kill someone who happens to be in your home is a very bad moral principle though.

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@KeldenFormosa @brodiefenlon Convinced at this point that the only explanation for this stuff is that it's meant to be a test to see how far people are willing to go out of attachment to the "progressive" label.

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@EdmundSmirk They dislike it because it forces them to confront overtly the contradictions that their appeal to "inclusivity" requires them to paper over. Laïcité has many issues, but at least it takes the substantive content of belief seriously.

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@David_Moscrop Fairly certain that the kinds of feminists who most strongly oppose the erasure of biology don't consider themselves right-wing, so it's interesting to see you and this publication label them as such...

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The thing with this kind of argument is that, even if it were true that some people are taking their lives in response to the expression of political opinions, it is entirely unreasonable to think that this fact alone means we should ban the political expression at issue.

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So one of the masked protestors who attended @LDBildy ’s talk pulled the “your free speech is denying my existence & killing us card.” Challenged for evidence he said, “Nex Benedict, because TikTok & Google.” Another attendee tried to challenge his claim & was shot down. Now this:

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@feelsdesperate @realchrisrufo As you know I had people tag my employer last night for asking what "hate crimes" had occured that justified this rather draconian measure. I expect that I will have yet another investigation launched against me soon.

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@feelsdesperate My pet theory is that the current "left" emphasis on "stigma" is deliberately intended to provide cover for the lack of state capacity to do anything about these problems.

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@StreamerDarkly @jonkay Yeah but francophone Québécois have a strong sense of identity and self-respect that WASPs lack. Their history is also at odds with the prevailing racial narrative imported from the U.S.

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@QuinnMRoss This is obvious bait, but I'll play: "harm" is not a pre-normative concept and the question of what counts as harmful is precisely what's being litigated. But I expect you know that.

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@2closetocall Really? I'm not sure a postsecondary education requirement adds much on its own, tbh. So long as they have the proper training to do their job what does inflated credentialism accomplish exactly?

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@yuanyi_z What is absolutely frustrating about these "reasonable hypothetical" cases is that the Charter in no way undermines the ability of courts to simply read down statutes *if and when* those hypothetical cases arise.

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@2closetocall I do love the insinuation that the attacks on Dong are racist. Reminds me of the early days of the pandemic.

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Pleased that my article, "Notwithstanding Judicial Specification: The Notwithstanding Clause within a Juridical Order" (co-authored with @SunKerry and @xavierfm3 ) is out in this volume.

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Volume 110 of the Supreme Court Law Review is now available for pre-order on @LexisNexisCan ! Co-edited by @MaxSaintH , @ryan_p_alford and me and w/ papers from @RunnymedeSoc 2022 symposium on the unwritten principle of constitutionalism. Available May 31!

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@chorkins @FullStopTeam ...the other is the more narrow suggestion that certain institutions and concrete institutional policies have a disparate negative impact on certain groups. The former is full-on ideology. The second raises important questions that should be addressed in concrete terms. /2

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@SkrypterX @mspratt @PierrePoilievre How is that "criminal justice policy", and in particular how does it help us address the people that are currently committing repeated violent crimes?

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Possibly hot take but being in a relationship with someone means disclosing basic facts that may be relevant to that relationship.

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@KLalh That is quite the poor choice of words, yikes...

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This is silly. Even assuming that the academic panels are open-minded about project type, which is not always going to be the case, the funding agencies themselves set clear priorities on what kinds of projects should be pursued.

The Breakdown

@TheBreakdownAB

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Despite being corrected that grants are determined by academic panels and not Justin Trudeau, Smith not only doubles down on that… She then says that with the powers of Bill 18 she will block renewals of grants if they don’t align with UCP views. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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On the plus side, at least they're admitting to what this is about instead of couching it in terms of "autonomy" or (most perversely) "dignity".

Erik

@IrreverentErik

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If you ask me what the banality of evil looks like in the 21st century, it looks like this:

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@TShampling @wesyang Feels like visceral prejudice is just the default state of humanity, and most people in most circumstances will just succumb to some version of it.

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This framing is extraordinarily ideological, in that it assumes that "barriers" are necessarily a bad thing. There can be no possible trade-off that justifies even minor restrictions on these kinds of serious medical interventions.

Healthy Debate

@HealthyDebate

2 months

“We are taught to 'do no harm' – yet, Danielle Smith’s policies will force #healthcare providers to be complicit in perpetuating barriers to gender-affirming care.” Med students take a stand against Alberta’s proposed anti- #trans policies. #abpoli

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@2closetocall Running for @FullStopTeam has been a magnet for this insanity. What people like this gentleman don't seem to understand is that they are precisely the reason I'm running in the first place.

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@maxfawcett So, to be clear: I have a right to complain when Parliament, a legislature or even a professional regulatory body enacts a particular rule, but I can't complain about court decisions? That's a very strange way of saying that courts are infallible

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@David_Moscrop Maybe don't make something into a sectarian political symbol next time

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@Honickman To be clear though even one or two MPs losing when they would have otherwise won is "interfering with the result" even if the Liberals would have still won a plurality of seats.

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@yuanyi_z You joke but this is quite literally the basis of the current "human rights" orthodoxy.

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@ChrisWNunn2 The most convincing argument I've come across is that the activist NGOs involved in the push for gay marriage in the U.S. couldn't just wind down once they had won.

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@CestuiQueTakes Because medically transing kids without parental input wasn't terrifying enough already.

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@wesyang "But look at all those sponsors. Surely they wouldn't sponsor if it wasn't OK."

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@TerryGlavin Do we seriously believe that Canadian courts are going to object to life imprisonment for "hate speech"?

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@CestuiQueTakes Superficial diversity where one can wear what one likes and use the labels of one's choice, but God forbid that you actually try to live your life according to your beliefs.

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