I think, unlike Trump, he believes what he says, which may make it worse. He is a dangerous fool.
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I think, unlike Trump, he believes what he says, which may make it worse. He is a dangerous fool.
The typos in the job notice are there to show that Windsor law is not elitist?
Perhaps Trump deserves the Nobel Prize for bringing India and China together.
This is clearly unconstitutional unless the gov invokes the notwithstanding clause. A stark example of religious intolerance worthy of Maurice Duplessis. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Perhaps he will be satisfied with the Noble Prize.
This newly ‘published’ open access const law casebook might be of interest to you - canlii.ca/t/7jt2q
There may have been some exchange about time and place in advance of the unconditional surrender. Perhaps that is what he means.
One of those emails is from me - and so of course will get your immediate attention.
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The open access Cdn Constitutional Law Casebook (with 48 const law academics) is now available: canlii.ca/t/7jt2q.
Surely the location is not an accident. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christi...
Canoeing in the sky.
Op-Ed in Toronto Star about the Toronto school board’s censorship of political speech in school yearbooks. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Since Lester Pearson all PMs except Harper have been Catholic.
Yet most of our recent PMs have been Catholic.
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While the Conservative Party did not win the election it appears that a conservative party did. This is more than disappointing. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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Ellie's film, Adult Adoption, is now available on Amazon Prime. Even though it had a small budget, it received glowing reviews, including a Critic's Pick from the Globe & Mail and inclusion on the Globe's list of the best films of the year. www.primevideo.com/region/na/de...
So instead you become a policy advisor.
Had the Conservatives been led by a more moderate leader - like Erin O’Toole or Jean Charest - they would have swept to power. Progressive voters would have been less afraid of a Tory gov and would not have abandoned the NDP.1/2
… says so. It could have been and could be otherwise. The people who reside in this particular territory (most of them a far distance from the oil) have no inherent claim to the resource.
“We have the oil” is an odd statement. Who is the ‘we’ and what does ‘have’ mean here. Leaving aside the claims that Indigenous communities might have, the prov of Alta - an entity that is the creation of the Cdn constitution - has jurisdiction over natural resources only because the Cdn const.. 1/2
There are not a lot of great Canadian shows (I say as a Canadian) Slings and Arrows is one. This is another - The Newsroom (not the one you are thinking of) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New...
Calling the Liberals “left” confirms that the meaning of the terms left and right has changed dramatically in the last 30 years.
Erin O’Toole would have cleaned up. But the party wants what the party (the base) wants.
The active element of the CPC - the base - is hard right, even extreme and will no doubt continue to dominate nomination meetings, and leadership races. A moderate CPC leader would have won a clear majority. Still more than 40% voted for a Cdn version of the Republican Party.
The most active element of the party - the base - is hard right, even extreme. It will continue to dominate candidate nomination meetings, and leadership races. A more moderate Conservative leader would have won a clear majority.
I assume it’s not ‘woke’ if the researcher comes to the ‘correct’ conclusion - eg that Indigenous peoples were not wronged or that race is not a social construct (to quote Trump) etc.
Free speech on campus is a good thing. But once again who decides when limits on the right are justified - in the classroom, in the meeting room, in residence, in the open areas of the campus? This is all too Trump-like.
And who will decide when research is ‘woke’? When it is concerned with things such as religious freedom and discrimination or free speech and the regulation of hate speech or disinformation? Will the judgment it is woke depend on whether the writer reaches the ‘correct’ conclusion on these issues?
“Thou [Jesus] hast no business to return and thus hinder us in our work.” The Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov.
Of course those who have risen to power based on disinformation have an interest in preventing any attempt to limit or discourage the spread of disinformation.
A larger work published last year: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
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Not exactly. Academic pieces in bits here and there - but later. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
In 2010 I pitched a story to the Walrus about the spread of disinformation online (at the time on blogs) and how this was becoming a greater threat to public discussion than state censorship. They passed.
To have standing in a context like this, a ‘media’ outlet should at least be expected to adhere to basic journalistic ethics-confirmation of facts and correction of errors. Levant has previously tried to defend himself in defamation actions insisting he is an entertainer rather than a journalist.
I think it needs UK stamps. Metered postage is for inside Canada.
Mailed mine last week in a similar mail box
no plan to intervene until the pressure grew on all sides and his minority gov was at risk.
Important to remember that when the 2008 financial crisis hit PM Harper had been about to de-regulate banking in Can, had no grasp of the gravity of the situation (suggesting it was a good time to buy stocks) and had … www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
By inexperience, you mean inexperience in campaigning. Better for the media to focus on candidate policy and its merits rather than on the horse race.
In 1991 I was in an outdoor restaurant in Ubud, Bali and suddenly realized that a Stan Rogers album was playing over the sound system. I asked the waiter why they were playing this. It turned out that another Cdn couple in the rest. who travelled with a Stan Rogers tape asked the rest. to play it.
Conservatives say no tax on capital gains if reinvested in Canada. What if I invest my salaried income in Canada? And of course those who live from pay check to pay check will continue to pay tax. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
‘How dare the lying liberal loser media try to associate us with Trump.’
The Conservatives will claim that Mark Carney is not a committed Canadian since he spent time out of the country as head of the Bank of England. This ad is among other things meant as a response to that. Carney has already surrendered his UK citizen which he obtained through his British wife.
I'm seeing the opening of the wonderful @grahamisador.bsky.social's play, Truck, at Factory Theatre next week! Now more than ever I think a lot of us can relate to the fear of tech stealing our livelihoods. It runs the 26-30th! Go support the arts before they're gone! www.cbc.ca/arts/truck-p...
But thanks to provincial policies our universities are in serious debt - otherwise this would be a great opportunity.
Canada will survive this but Canadians will remember the actions of the US and the silence of others.
If the Conservatives had a different leader - and not someone whose entire life has been about partisan attack - the time might be right for a unity gov in Canada. The country is under threat. The welfare of the country mattered to past Conservative leaders. It is not part of Poilievre’s agenda.
It would be funny if it were not part of a pattern - of right wing political actors accusing their opponents of doing exactly what they do - lying in particular. Their core believe them and a second more skeptical group just thinks that everyone lies or spins.
And they have to use economic force and physical threats to get a degree of acquiescence.
In 5 years time will Trump be residing in Moscow - perhaps down the hall from where Guy Burgess once lived?
It is increasingly clear that Trump and his corp supporters are simply corp raiders engaged in asset stripping the US gov.
And when Canadians embassy staff in Iran put themselves in danger to help their US counterparts because it was the right thing to do - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadia...
Are tariffs meant to generate revenue or to encourage domestic production. They can’t do both. Not at least in the long run.
A degree in economics does not mean he understands real world economics.
Just before the financial collapse that occurred during Harper’s time in office he was planning to deregulate financial institutions in Can. He did not grasp the gravity of the collapse and joked about it being a good time to buy stocks. He took action only when public and political pressure grew.
I suspect though, that the alternatives will have significant drawbacks. The better plan is to stop paying so much attention to the British royal family as celebrities and let the GG perform her mostly formal duties. 2/2
Most ‘anti-Monarchists’ seem to think that the monarchy is like the human appendix and can simply be removed. But it does perform a function, just not the one they think it does. If removed it needs to be replaced with something else. I am open to hearing alternatives. 1/2
Will they tell American farmers the same thing about Potash from Saskatchewan?
No but Starmer should have.
L'État, c'est moi.
Why annex Canada if Trump is right that we - in Canada - have nothing the US needs?
www.thestar.com/politics/pol... Once again the talk is about party strategy and popular appeal when it should be about who is best able to lead the country during the Trump threat. Clearly it is not the person parroting Trump’s bogus claim about Canada being a major source of Fentanyl.
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You don’t read fiction or listen to music? I guess the problem is not knowing. Also it seems I was wrong in thinking that economists still read people like Jk Galbraith.
Yet another reminder that success in business is often just a matter of dumb luck.
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The challenge for any CDN leader speaking to the nation is to deliver the basic message in both languages without being repetitious. I’m not a big fan of his speaking style but this was impressive in both content and delivery. It will take a long time for Canadians to trust the US again.
The cdn economy will be disrupted in ways that are significant and painful but over time it will reorient itself. Canadians, though, will never again regard the US as a good faith actor.
We are bombarded by US media. Many cdns followUS politics and US sports etc. and know less and less about this country. The average income in the US is higher than it is in Canada. However, the median income is higher in Canada. In other words the average cdn makes more than the average American.
Short memories - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadia...
“Thou [Jesus] hast no business to return and thus hinder us in our work.” The Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov.
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I am seeing lots. I hate to say it but you might need new friends.
Just think about where Diefenbaker, Stanfield, Flora MacDonald, Joe Clark, Bill Davis etc would fit in today’s political spectrum? And yes how could anyone who cares about knowledge support a party that rejects science and expertise?
This is my reaction to Haidt and others who suggest that university faculty have moved to the left because in the US most vote Democrat. But it is the Republican Party and in Canada the Conservatives who have moved dramatically to the right - so that faculty members may not have moved at all …
As raccoons are to Toronto, foxes are to London.
well - they are celebrities. We could at least remove the King’s profile from the money. The term Royal had declined in use until Stephen Harper as PM decided to resurrect it. 2/2
And what would be the point? A parliamentary system requires a formal head of state. The GG performs that role as the King’s rep in Canada but is selected - effectively - by the PM and cabinet of the day. We could simply ignore the Royal Family but we don’t want to because - 1/2
Mr Poilievre’s idea of Canadian nationalism is simply American nationalism with the maple leaf substituting for stars and stripes.
Historians will be surprised to learn from Mr Poilievre that Protestants and Catholics in early Canada lived in wonderful harmony.
And we also have begun to see an electorate that is willing to say, ‘why shouldn’t he take advantage of his position in this way’ – that sees politics as little more than the pursuit of self-interest. 6/6
But with Trump even this thin line now seems to have been erased – or is in the process of being erased. Already we have seen that he and his family are willing to use his political position to advance their business interests. 5
interest – that is to the benefit of all. In this way they continue to draw a line – however thin - between private interest (as the motivation of market actors) and public interest (as the motivation of politicians). 4
Even when politicians pursue a neo-liberal agenda of reducing the role of the state and ‘freeing’ the market to distribute goods, they defend the pursuit of self-interest in the private sector as something that is in the public … 3
Many people, though, sought office to advance the public good and not simply their own interests or even the interests of their class or ethnic group. 2
From a 2016 blog post: Trump’s election may also mark the culmination of another change in politics. There have always been individuals who have sought political office for personal gain – and here I mean financial gain and not simply personal vanity or gratification. 1
Thinking about the simpler times when the oligarchs pulled the strings of government behind the scenes.
Fair.
They pretended there were good reasons (other than anti-Muslim bigotry) to prohibit civil servants from wearing religious dress - such as state neutrality. But they can’t even pretend that a ban on public prayer is about anything other than not wanting to see Muslims practicing their faith.
There is concern that Trump appointed judges will not require his administration to adhere to the constitution. But it is also possible that the courts decide that the administration has breached the constitution and Trump decides simply to ignore these judgments.
Of course how it gets enforced may raise both practical and constitutional issues.
Coming soon
Good question Rob. Children do have free speech rights of course. My guess is that if the state could provide studies showing that access to social media is harmful to children and their development - anxiety, bullying, disinformation etc - a court would uphold the restriction.
And they are about to be very inexpensive in Canada.
I guess we need to impose tariffs on the US until they get their gun issue sorted out. “Approximately 90 per cent of firearms that we seize are directly traced back to the U.S. And I can say in reality the remaining 10 per cent [without serial numbers] are likely also from the U.S.,” Peel Police