Five Liberal members of Parliament are asking 25 Canadian university presidents to say whether calling for a genocide against Jewish people or the elimination of Israel violates their school policies.
Yes, I think the real contention is whether the phrase “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is a call for genocide. The answer is: to some chanters in Canada it might be, but I think that it is a vanishingly small percentage, however for a significant percentage ofJewish Canadians hearing the phrase, it IS. Which makes it a difficult issue to address, how do you balance the right to political protest against the right to feel secure against genocide.
There are reasonable limitations to subject and witness ability to record police.
Ie limitations on what subjects can do with their hands, and limitations on how close witnesses can get.
I’d like every police interaction to be recorded, not a system where the officer can decide if an interaction gets recorded. I also understand that police officers deserve privacy to use the toilet and fart while out and about, without being recorded by their boss.
My comment was basically if ANYONE present thinks that the interaction should be getting recorded, it should be getting recorded.
Hey guys I want everyone in Canada to have dental care without cost of use, but I’m anxious about the sustainability of a program that pays for dental care through paystub deductions while extending coverage to retirees.
I think the Healthcare funding model in this country is already ill-equipped to handle the boomers retiring (thanks boomers) without us giving them dental care they haven’t paid for.
It needs to be funded through capital gains taxes.
I think it’s probably better to harness immigration instead of limiting it. I’m not sure what the status is now but certainly in the past there have been special immigration categories for investor immigrants.
What if we re oriented those programs towards home building instead of economic stimulation. Like you can immigrate if you build an X unit co-op.
I agree we need to modify tax policies to make real estate more of a purchase and less of an investment
I can understand liking the idea of the cyber truck but its aesthetic is so different from convention that I think people need to see it in person to decide if they like it.
There are so many things in it that are different in ways that might be better it is hard for me to imagine it selling well.
The Suzuki Carry has a bed width of 1585mm (62.4") the Silverado has a max bed width of 64.8" (1646mm) so 60mm/2.5" wider. But the Silverado’s bed isn’t rectangular, ie if you want to lay something flat, the widest it can be is 50" (1270mm). That’s a foot narrower than the Suzuki.
The Silverado has higher walls which imo isn’t really a plus or minus. (More bulk materials, and less need to tie things down, but harder to access the things).
There are a lot of other differences in available configurations. I think the reason a lot of people prefer Silverados boil down to esthetics, and the perceptions of others. I think that for a lot of men, pickup trucks are an expression of their masculinity. They want something big and powerful that they can take into the woods and be manly^tm^ with.
A Carry is very practical and if I owned a landscaping business I think that’s what I’d want my crews to be driving.
But also, I’m not a business owner. I’m a man and I get it. Honestly I’d way rather own that enormous impractical pickup. I’m more likely to be hauling hockey gear than lumber and drywall. I’m tall and girthy, I appreciate a spacious cab. I have child seats in my car.
Maybe men should stop pretending they don’t care a lot about fun.
Edit to add: but I do agree we need society to be less car/truck centric.
Don’t you think it’s good for the company if the death threat is received before they’ve spent millions of dollars on construction/procurement? While they can still afford to shift locations to a welcoming community? Don’t you think the consultation process may have alerted the company to the threat of vandalism and sabotage to their project?
If I was building an industrial facility in a small town, I’d want to know the locals’ priorities re: noise vs visual aesthetics vs smells vs funding local community projects so that I could keep the electorate happy and not have to go head to head with a hostile local government making new rules to make my life miserable.
Don’t make threats (also don’t kill people, it’s usually wrong). It is too easy for Power to amplify and harness sincere backlash against your movement and whip it into counter progress outrage.
At a consultation stage don’t threaten lives and infrastructure. Ask how the company will protect against sabotage and vandalism.
Are they building infrastructure that is vulnerable to ecoterrorists? If an ecoterrorist were to attack their pipeline with a high powered hunting rifle would it be an ecological disaster?
If a saboteur spread diamond grit abrasives on the rail track the coal cars travels on, would that cause damage, a derailment, or just increase maintenence costs? What about grease?
If seepage from the tailings pond was spread onto the plant manager’s lawn, would he let his kids play there?
B.C.'s Supreme Court has ruled that a person charged with contempt of court for breaking an injunction on the Coastal GasLink Pipeline was found not guilty....
While trying to understand this news article I came across this article by the BC Civil Liberties Association.
Which says:
Q: What are the common defences for a charge of criminal contempt of court?
A: Common defences include proving the terms of the injunction aren’t sufficiently clear, or the defendant’s conduct wasn’t actually in breach of terms of the order. Some defendants have argued duress or necessity, but these defences have rarely been successful.
…
Q: What are the other defences for a charge of criminal contempt of court?
A: There aren’t many (…) Many of the traditional criminal law defences aren’t available.
The CBC News article says:
Mahon said Dennis — a Dakelh woman — was invited to the pipeline blockade by members of the Wet’suwet’en to bear witness to the events, in accordance with Wet’suwet’en traditional law.
Mahon added that Dennis’s role as a witness for the Wet’suwet’en is essential to the case because she was not there to bring societal disrespect onto the courts, which the Crown would need to prove in charges of criminal contempt.
“For her to be acquitted in those circumstances really recognizes and affirms that role as witness,” said Mahon.
It seems like it might be a new defense for injunctions on unceded land.
Anyone born after [date] could get it legally through a pharmacy after talking to their doctor/nurse-practitioner and explaining why they need a prescription (ie they are addicted and can’t function without it).
I actually like that framing. I’m imagining explaining it to my 5 year old:
What’s that person doing?
They took the wrong medicine and now they have to take that medicine everyday. It’s yucky, expensive, and very hard on their body.
Why did they take the wrong medicine?
They didn’t realize it was medicine and they thought it looked interesting or fun, I’m not sure exactly. You know not to take medicine without talking to mum, dad, or a doctor right?
Canada is ramping up its climate battle by strengthening its regulations for methane, a greenhouse gas that environmental experts say has a more potent warming effect than carbon dioxide, as the country aims to reduce oil and gas methane emissions by at least 75 per cent by 2030.
IMHO there is nothing wrong with the N word used in an history lesson.
Have you spoken to any [other] people that have been subjected to anti-black bigotry directly about how its inclusion would affect them in a lesson?
I am a white man that had a similar view to you. About 10 years ago I had a conversation with a black classmate about appropriate use of that word. It was my position that it’s too bad we continually empower the word by avoiding it even in dry intellectual contexts and we shouldn’t censor it when reading quotations.
She said:
I know you’re not being racist but it still makes me super uncomfortable to hear you say it.
I made the decision not to say it ever again. Obviously my classmate can’t speak for all black people, every person has different experiences, and reactions will be along a continuum. There might be situations where the educational value of using that word explicitly, outweighs the discomfort it causes. But I think it’s pretty inappropriate for me to ‘whitesplain’ prejudice (and the language of prejudice, and the power… of the language of prejudice)
Teachers have to ask themselves: How much will its explicit use enhance the lesson? How many students are we willing to risk alienating? How much time would we like to spend defending our decision to use the word explicitly? How much of that will be class time?
Even with a lengthy preamble setting the perfect context to use it explicitly with minimal potential for alienating students there’s a significant chance we’ll fuck it up and spend the rest of the class reteaching the class why we think they are wrong to be offended.
Some of them will be disingenuous, some of them will be sincerely offended white soyboys not too dissimilar to me, some of them will be legitimately alienated racialized minorities.
We’d also be implicitly asking the non offended racialized minorities to stick up for us. Their well meaning friends will ask them to weigh in on the subject (and speak for all blacks). It’s not fair to them.
In a context where class time is limited, I have to think that students are best served with more lesson time and less meta-discussion. So I don’t think it’s a good idea to use the word explicitly in educational contexts, unless maybe there’s some sort of vetting of students for the course.
You know what’s the real bullshit? Listing melted butter as an ingredient. Mother fucker, who keeps melted butter on hand? Make the ingredient oil, or make melting it part of the instructions!
I’m fine with melting butter, but show me where in the prices I’m supposed to do it.
The pancake recipe my wife likes me to make say something like:
Milk
Flour
Sugar
Egg
Melted, slightly cooled butter
add the lemon juice to the milk and let it thicken while preparing the dry ingredients.
Beat the egg into the milk then whisk in the melted butter.
If it was slightly cooled at the beginning it’s not whiskable by the time I get to the step. If it’s solid at the beginning it’s not slightly cooled when I go to whisk it in (it will be straight out of the microwave)
…
As someone else said, it’s an extremely small hill but I don’t think you’re going to push me off of it.
Lol. Not one I’ll try to push you off of. For reference il the recipe calls for 2 tablespoons of sugar compared to two cups of flour and two cups of milk.
I’ve been really enjoying the Red Hot Organization’s “No Alternative” and “Dark was the Night” recently, both because they raised a lot of money for AIDS research and because they do a great job of capturing the 90s alternative sound and 00s indie sound respectively, and it’s got me thinking how much I love...
Dbrand is lucky they haven’t been sued by the board manufacturers for creating an unlicensed derivative work (which is what the case art is, just as the photo of a sculpture, even stylized, has been deemed derivative - especially when the reproduction is intended to represent the original).
I think “lucky” is an overstatement but this is an interesting point and could be the knockoff company’s defense ie:
we couldn’t have infringed their IP because they don’t own the IP
But I think this line of defense would open both case makers up to a suit from the phone manufacturers. Dbrand is well familiar with IP issues with hardware OEMs though so I don’t know…
Isn’t her contention that it doesn’t matter if she was naturally born to the Sainte-Marie’s because the Piapot’s adopted/claim her as their family and therfore she is indigenous no matter what anyone else says?
But if her claim is that it doesn’t matter if she was conceived by indigenous parents then doing a genetic test can only strengthen her opponents’ position. Why would she do that?
It’s my opinion that she is unlikely to have significant indigenous ancestry and that she has intentionally mislead the public about the nature of her connection to the indigenous community. That said: she may have entered the indigenous community under false pretenses but she IS part of the community.
I feel it is quite inappropriate for her to have accepted grants/awards reserved for people disenfranchised by settler colonialism and residential schools. But, I don’t know if it’s possible to discern which awards etc are intended as such and which are just to lift indigenous cultures in aggregate. She should double down on her rejection of colonial definitions and just announce her willingness to voluntarily return any awards/ grants to all organizations that feel blood quantum is paramount to indigeneity. I think that would put this whole thing to bed.
Professing to be a mormon is a logical decision if your culture is mormon.
Disinterest in pursuing a more empirical world view is not illogical if one would have to damage their relationship with those closest to them in its pursuit.
(Sorry about the pretentiousness of that (and this) sentence, I can’t find a more vernacular way of expressing these ideas succinctly).
I’m happy my comment has sparked some thought. You asked a lot of open ended questions and I can’t take the time to address them right now I hope you’re not disappointed when you learn all i have to say right now is that:
Not every suicide is illogical, and I’m thankful to live in a society that recognizes that, and provides medical assistance in dieing but I don’t have enough information to weigh in with more specificity than that.
In the last year, the Village of Harrison Hot Springs has seen virtually its entire senior staff resign or retire, a new councillor resign, and multiple meetings end abruptly after shouting matches, some with threats of arrests....
I don’t think that skepticism of IDF statements is antisemitic.
I don’t think supporting the idea of a free Palestine is inherently antisemitic.
I think stating that Zionism is genocide is quite inflammatory, and probably anti-semitic (though possibly unintentionally so). Zionism ie the existence of a Jewish state is not inherently genocidal, and to say that it IS is antisemitic, but Israel’s support of illegal settlements (what Zionism means to people today) might be genocidal. I can see why people argue about this.
I think that a hospital/school receiving a report of antisemitism by an employee/student should restrict that employee’s interaction with the public (and coworkers?) while they figure out what’s going on.
I think it was correct to suspend Dr. Ge and that it would be correct to reinstate Dr. Ge.
Oh yes, I forgot about how brake dust is burning towns to the ground because of extreme weather and inundating low lying regions with rising sea levels.
You said tire pollution is potentially worse for the environment than tailpipe emissions. That is a wildly irresponsible thing to say. That’s what I was objecting to.
There absolutely are people arguing that ICs are better for the environment, as if climate change doesn’t affect the environment.
If you’re going to buy a new car, don’t, but if you’re going to buy one anyway, prioritize reducing of ghg emissions.
Edited: changed “euphemistically” to reducing, my fault for not proofreading my auto correct (I use swore typing on my phone so sometimes things go really sideways)
I don’t think I’m in the wrong comment chain, and I think I commented before you clarified re climate change.
Also I’ve edited one of my comments explaining a really weird auto correct replacement i didn’t catch, which may explain why you feel I’m accusing you of things.
I think it is a loophole but in the original sense. A hole in a castle wall used to help protect the castle (by being able to shoot out of it). It’s a hole in the legislation that helps defend it from attack. Ie it can’t be opposed for safety reasons, it can’t be suspended either for safety reasons.
2SLGBTQIA+ community leaders are denouncing the Conservative leader’s speech accusing Justin Trudeau of imposing “radical gender ideology” on children.
I’m concerned about the safety of school children.
I’m concerned because I’ve been told that having SOGI-specific anti-bullying policies improves the school climate for LGBTQ and heterosexual students, reducing discrimination, suicidal ideation and suicide attempts for all students. Is that true?
I’ve been told LGB youth are still seven times more likely to attempt suicide than non-lgb youth. Is that true?
How does the number of regretted irreversible child sexual reassignments compare to the number SOGI minority suicides? I’m sure you hope to reduce the number of people harmed by regretted transition, but are you worried that federal meddling in SOGI education will increase suicide rates?
Aside from SOGI education, what impact do you anticipate “outing” kids to their parents will have on their mental health and risk of suicide?
I’m concerned that federal government overreaching to meddle with school curriculums and policies will result increasing numbers of dead kids. What’s the best way to protect kids? In this case I think the best way to avoid having dead kids on your conscience is to remind your constituents that education is a provincial responsibility and steadfastly refuse to engage on the topic.
Anyone wishing to send a similar note could more explicitly ask about reconciling his SOGI education policy with his commitment to small government (he expresses a commitment to small government on his website), and whether he develops policy based on common sense (hunches) or scientific data (he alludes to preferring both on his website).
But in the province’s eastern region, which includes the capital of St. John’s and is home to roughly three-fifths of the provincial population, the number of people seeking medically assisted death climbed from 16 in 2019 to 107 in 2022, McKim said in his briefing note. There were 37 requests in the first quarter of 2023....
Liberal MPs ask universities if calling for genocide of Jews violates school codes (www.ctvnews.ca)
Five Liberal members of Parliament are asking 25 Canadian university presidents to say whether calling for a genocide against Jewish people or the elimination of Israel violates their school policies.
Vancouver police's body-camera pilot pushed back to new year (www.cbc.ca)
Federal government to announce details of dental insurance plan (www.cp24.com)
B.C. housing plan could see 293,000 new units over next decade, says report (www.nationalobserver.com)
... and you feel nothing. (lemmy.ml)
same bed length (feddit.de)
Being a man ain't what it used to be. - Thought Slime (yt.artemislena.eu)
Canonical YouTube link
Power company says it's halting battery storage plan after backlash, death threat (www.cbc.ca)
Personal space (startrek.website)
Woman arrested during Wet'suwet'en pipeline blockade found not guilty (www.cbc.ca)
B.C.'s Supreme Court has ruled that a person charged with contempt of court for breaking an injunction on the Coastal GasLink Pipeline was found not guilty....
Ban selling cigarettes to anyone born after 2008, Ottawa Public Health urges Health Canada (ottawacitizen.com)
'A no-brainer solution': Canada bolsters fight against powerful pollutant methane to help country reach climate goals (www.ctvnews.ca)
Canada is ramping up its climate battle by strengthening its regulations for methane, a greenhouse gas that environmental experts say has a more potent warming effect than carbon dioxide, as the country aims to reduce oil and gas methane emissions by at least 75 per cent by 2030.
History go brrrr (lemmy.ml)
Why is such a tunnel needed? (media.mas.to)
I found such a photo on the Internet and became interested in what function such a structure could perform.
I r(ul)efuse (startrek.website)
What's your favorite compilation album?
I’ve been really enjoying the Red Hot Organization’s “No Alternative” and “Dark was the Night” recently, both because they raised a lot of money for AIDS research and because they do a great job of capturing the 90s alternative sound and 00s indie sound respectively, and it’s got me thinking how much I love...
Dbrand is suing Casetify for ripping off its Teardown designs - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Buffy Sainte-Marie pushes back against CBC investigation (www.cbc.ca)
It really makes me cringe every time they talk about logic... (lemmy.world)
Seriously spends $80 to drive 20km.. (lemmy.ca)
B.C. mayor asks council to approve hiring investigator to find 'mole' writing critical letters about him (www.cbc.ca)
In the last year, the Village of Harrison Hot Springs has seen virtually its entire senior staff resign or retire, a new councillor resign, and multiple meetings end abruptly after shouting matches, some with threats of arrests....
Xbox is on track to knock Sony PlayStation down to third place for the first time in history [because MS bought Activision and their gaming market value] (news.yahoo.com)
Doctor suspended from U of O residency after pro-Palestinian social media posts (www.cbc.ca)
Every time (lemmy.world)
But I am le tired (lemmy.world)
Trudeau, Eby announce $1-billion battery plant in Maple Ridge, B.C. (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
Non-Paywall Article
Yes, also Teslas (media.mastodon.scot)
Liberals introduce anti-scab bill (rabble.ca)
Pierre Poilievre Under Fire After Video Surfaces of Homophobic and Transphobic Speech (pressprogress.ca)
2SLGBTQIA+ community leaders are denouncing the Conservative leader’s speech accusing Justin Trudeau of imposing “radical gender ideology” on children.
In Newfoundland, a handful of practitioners are taking on skyrocketing MAID requests (atlantic.ctvnews.ca)
But in the province’s eastern region, which includes the capital of St. John’s and is home to roughly three-fifths of the provincial population, the number of people seeking medically assisted death climbed from 16 in 2019 to 107 in 2022, McKim said in his briefing note. There were 37 requests in the first quarter of 2023....
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what are some phrases that you use in your hobby or work that would make no sense to outsiders?