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Retired law prof @UCalgaryLaw . Current MA History student. Equality rights, residential tenancies and other property law, #A2J . @jwatsonhamilton .bsky.social
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@Marie_mi
This is Aloysuis. I adopted him as a rescue just after he turned 15. He will be 20 in August. He supervises the work I do.
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The real story is not about Nenshi. It is what MLA Phillips said it was about. And it's about driving another intelligent, dedicated & competent woman out of politics, worn out by polarization and disinformation &, in her case, by the inappropriate & quasi-criminal conduct
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of 2 Lethbridge police officers who disagreed with her politics, kept her under surveillance & were therefore found to have violated the Police Act. The failure of the Alberta Crown prosecution service to pursue criminal charges, announced in May, may have been the last straw.
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Inconvenient facts show press secretary for Health Minister
@shandro
makes more money than 2,929 Alberta doctors, who also employ far more Albertans as part of their overheads that
@SteveBuick2
refuses to factor in. We need data, not his "childish" name calling and spin.
#abpoli
.
Hi Steven. Proxy here.
Thanks for sharing this data source that also shows after overheads (that you don't pay) and benefits (that doctors don't get)
1856 Family Doctors
295 Internists
54 Obstetricians
157 Pediatricians
and 149 Psychiatrists
MAKE LESS THAN **YOU**
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The associate dean of equity, diversity and inclusion in the
@UAlberta
faculty of arts resigned over the removal of student protesters from campus, citing an inability to do the job.
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As an emerita professor, donor to UCalgary, and current student, I want to know who called in CPS and under what authority, what law?
Drawing a line between freedom of speech and how it is put into effect is not as easy as saying "protest, ok; encampment, not, because trespass."
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@darylcognito
@nenshi
@SPhillipsAB
I don't think the Phillips resignation and the possible Nenshi leadership win are connected. I think the media went with the Nenshi angle in the headline and first paragraph to grab public attention. The real story about the resignation is here and now and much more important.
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The UCP de-indexed AISH payments, plans to privatize Calgary/Edmonton homes for disabled Albertans, and has now cut the disability advocates office staff from 6 to 1. Our government thinks attacking the most vulnerable Albertans is something they can get away with.
#abpoli
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@BernardoItalia
@Lorian_H
@UbakaOgbogu
Speaking of ideology, if it isn't
@BernardoItalia
, principal advisor to AB's Minister of Health, with a built-in bias to push Babylon, attacking two university health law scholars whose reputation for objective assessment in the public interest is their only stake in this issue.
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A good start to the day when you find out the Supreme Court of Canada has cited your work on an
#A2J
point: "Pre-Dispute Consumer Arbitration Clauses: Denying Access to Justice?" (2006) 51 McGill L J 693 in Uber Technologies v Heller, 2020 SCC 16 at para 39.
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"The problem is, outside of 1971 to 1991, Alberta has not been able to get the regulator to follow the law."
Say again? For the past 20+ years, Alberta governments could not get their own appointed energy regulators to follow the governments' laws? 🤯
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We have a big problem in Alberta: racism. An anti-racist motion will be put before the legislature tomorrow. Will the
@UCPCaucus
speak out against racism? Will our premier
@jkenney
step up this time and condemn the vicious racist attacks made this weekend in Calgary ?
#AbLeg
Another awful attack on a Muslim woman, this time in Calgary, on the same weekend that “anti-lockdown” protestors in that city marched with racist, hateful symbols and messages, and violent acts occurred.
This has got to stop.
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A reminder for most of us here in Alberta ...
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More personal than usual, but my bar call was 40 years ago today -- pic with Justice Allan Wachowich and principal, Paul Adilman. 13 years in practice in Wetaskiwin AB, a year of grad school at Columbia NYC, and 26 years teaching at
@UCalgaryLaw
. Yes, I would do it all again.
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@erinotoole
Statues & buildings are not history, but celebrations of certain individuals. Decades/centuries later, enough people realize through learning, growth & empathy that some should not be celebrated because of the harm they did. They remain in history books, just not on pedestals.
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Purchase your transit pass in advance of March 1, the Minister says. With what? AISH or Income Support not paid until March 1? Or purchase two passes in one month on the AISH or Income Support you de-indexed January 1? Is this a cruel jab or ignorance,
@RajanJSaw
?
#AbLeg
#abpoli
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You know Alberta is in trouble under
#UCP
leadership when the phone call between their leader and our premier,
@ABDanielleSmith
, with Pawlowski is analogized to the infamous case of Quebec premier Maurice Duplessis, *the* lesson on the Rule of Law.
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U Toronto relies on a paramount "right to eat breakfast anywhere on campus" argument to justify an injunction against an anti-genocide student encampment. And, yes,this is supposed to be a serious UT legal application to limit freedom of expression & assembly, not an SNL skit.
UT injunction hearing today. Discussion on the harm of hearing Palestinian slogans. UT is arguing that people have a "right to their feelings" and to "feel comfortable in the university community." Justice responds that discomfort is actually the very purpose of freedom of speech
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Jason Nixon's press secretary: nothing we can do b/c "the treatment of income sources is enshrined in the AISH Act and its regulations." Enshrined? What a joke. The
@UCPCaucus
just trashed what was "enshrined" in law about municipalities, health care, etc. They like AISH as is.
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"Essentially, the UCP just gave this years K-Pass fund to two OHV organizations."
So lower impact hikers, skiers, etc must pay to use Kananaskis, but OHV high impact users not only don't pay to destroy Kananaskis but are being funded to do so? That's twisted,
@sonyasavage
!
The Gov just announced $8 Million dollars to be given to two trails groups to build and maintain OHV trails.
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@CAFinUS
My grandfather, James Duncan Campbell, who enlisted in September 1939 when he was a 43-year-old Saskatchean farmer and father of seven. Died on August 19, 1942 near Dieppe, France. His daughter, my mom, still remembers him every day and taught her kids to do so as well.
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Where are the rapid tests
@JasonCoppingAB
?
Where did the millions of federally-supplied tests go if not to Albertans?
I am just an old guy from Alberta.
I want a goddamn set of rapid test for me and my family. Why can’t I get them? Anybody in Alberta should be able to get them. Where is the goddamn minister of health
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This will be incredible!
@MaracleLee
and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and
@GwenBenaway
reading from their work and participating in a panel discussion as
@UCalgary
's 2019-2020 Distinguished Visiting Writers! Free, but you need to register now!
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Alberta's oil & gas sector "generated -$212 million in corporate income tax revenue last year. No, that wasn’t an error. You read that right. That’s negative $212 million."
If you're not angry, you're not listening. 🗣 😡
#AbLeg
#oilandgas
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@RajanJSaw
Purchase in advance of March 1st with what, Minister? The AISH or Income Support not paid until March 1st? Or purchase two transit passes in one month on the amount of AISH or Income Support that was not indexed to inflation on January 1st? Is this a cruel jab or ignorance?
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@MelaneeLThomas
Congratulations on your promotion to full professor, a well-earned recognition of your widely influential work and expertise. I hope that not every bit of the joy has been leached from this milestone by the lack of employer protection from the violent & misogynistic harassment.
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"Walk it Back Wednesday", a weekly event featuring Premier
@ABDanielleSmith
. Enjoying the embarassment
@UCPCaucus
,
@Alberta_UCP
?
But didn't walk this one back very far. "I didn't mean what I said" & "Sorry if you misunderstood what I repeatedly said" are not apologies.
#AbLeg
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she didn't intend to compare Indigenous People's suffering at the hands of Ottawa to Alberta's. She says she apologizes if her comments were understood that way
#ableg
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#WorldwideCandleLightingDay
: remembering the children who left this earth too soon.
Thomas Watson Hamilton.
19 April 1985 - 21 March 2015
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Embarassing juxtaposition. Same day that
@UCalgary
admits "Alberta's new premier a UCalgary graduate",
@ABDanielleSmith
shows appalling lack of knowledge & awareness about human rights & news of court losses by the unvaccinated claiming discrimination. ☺️
"They're the most discriminated against group that I've ever witnessed in my lifetime."
Danielle Smith says unvaccinated people have suffered greater discrimination than those based on race, gender, sexuality.
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@NdbYyc1305
@ucalgaryclinic
@UCalgary
As an emerita professor, donor to UCalgary, and current student, I second that request
@NdbYyc1305
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Drawing a line between freedom of speech and how it is put into effect is not as easy as saying "protest, ok; encampment, not, because trespass." What statute was relied on?
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Biting cold wind at
#ABProtests
in Calgary this aft didn't diminish the anger over the UCP budget and its disrespect for teachers, doctors, nurses, union and non-union workers, AISH recipients, child support services, our environment, etc.
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My dad, John Stannard Watson, who served in WWII on HMS Norfolk, escorting convoys from Scapa Flow to Murmansk.
My maternal grandfather, James Duncan Campbell, a 42 yr old father of 8, killed in action Aug 19, 1942, while taking part in the Jubilee Operation, Dieppe, France.
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So ... he analogizes education to liquor stores in order to argue that K-12 education should be a commodity available to those who can afford it, rather than a public good provided to all members of society? For consumers, not citizens? Just checking, because hard to believe.
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So proud of my feminist colleague, Jennifer Koshan, the winner of the CBA's 2020 Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for her ground-breaking contributions to law reform in the areas of sexual assault and equality.
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This letter from a Red Deer father should be read by every Albertan old enough to vote: "I understand there needs to be cuts and funding changes, but you must realize you are taking everything away from someone who already has very little."
#AbLeg
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"Two coal mines leeching stuff into Alberta rivers now." And the tailings "pond." When is too much enough for Albertans to do something to change this appalling reality? Like vote for something different than what we have endured for all but 4 of the last 30-some years?
#abpoli
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Hustled thru the Legislature by an unpopular party with a new leader who won on a 6th ballot with a bare majority of a few thousand UCP members. Legal procedure followed, but used as a weapon to create unconstitutiinal & more authoritarian procedures. This is what
#ABLeg
is now.
27-7 vote along party lines (out of 85 MLAs) at third reading. Time allocation used by UCP to limit debate. Entire sweeping bill - the most radical since the 1930s - passed within a week.
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Only richer parents can afford to wait until May every year to get some of the money they spent on child care back. The rest need the $10/day help every day when they use child care.
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"Think of the person in the grocery store who might really need to be wearing a good mask right now but doesn't know they need to, because they don't know how many infections are happening, or how serious COVID can still be for them."
The Oct 28 Canadian COVID Index and associated data are now live.
SEVERE: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NS, ON, PEI
VERY HIGH: NL, North, SK
HIGH: NB, QC
Link:
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"Eight other jurisdictions have signed a child care deal that would see federal dollars reduce costs down to $10/day or less by 2026."
Not Alberta, busy "negotiating" since April.
Why can't
@jkenney
's
@UCPCaucus
make a deal? Incompetence or animosity?
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The "Free Alberta Strategy" of Anderson, From & Cooper -- now being promoted by Smith -- reminds me of Freemen on the Land and Sovereign Citizens groups that plagued Canadian courts with their
#pseudolaw
claims that laws they didn't like couldn't be enforced vs them.
#AbLeg
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Quebec judge denies McGill's request for an injunction to dismantle a campus encampment.
Hasty action by
@UCalgary
&
@UAlberta
& brutal police enforcement of the universities' trespass notices is looking more & more unjustifiable. Time for reparations. Time to meet demands.
Heartening to see courts protecting peaceful protest. Under the Charter & international law, the bar is deliberately set high, human rights cannot be casually disregarded. There is insufficient urgency to justify dismantling McGill encampment.
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Police striking peaceful demonstrators with batons at the request of university administrators does tend to make the job of furthering equality and flourishing in an open learning environment impossible.
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"As law students, we are the next lawyers and judges. We provide a certain service to people that gives them access to the law. Without diverse perspectives, we can't give them unbiased views of equality." Calls for action at
#UCalgaryLaw
Faculty of Law.
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Some
@UCalgaryLaw
&
@UAlbertaLaw
professors have sent an open letter to their respective administrations, police services & the Crown prosecution service that shares constitutional and other legal concerns about the handling of recent protests at both universities. Here it is.
New Post: An Open Letter Regarding the Response to Recent Protests at the Universities of Alberta and Calgary
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In the last decade, Calgary has been ranked twice by the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives as one of the worst cities for women.
Like most cities today, Calgary is a city built for men and by men. If we want a city that works for most, Calgarians need to redefine our concept of leadership.
Read all about it in my new feature for
@sprawlcalgary
👇
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If re-elected, the
@Alberta_UCP
plans to sell off most of Alberta's remaining 27,000 social housing units to private landlords. Seems the
#UCP
"believes that by privatizing social housing, thereby raising housing costs, it can . . . reduce housing costs." 🤯
In Canada's heartland, the policies of the United Conservative Party — enabling further rent increases and scrapping social housing — will make life worse for many Albertans, to the benefit of landlords.
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In the legislature today, our premier dismissed
@UCalgary
colleague
@MelaneeLThomas
' scholarship on democratic processes because she was an AB NDP candidate in 2004 & 2006 before starting her PhD. His attempt at intimidation in a democratic forum? Makes her point.
#AbLeg
#abpoli
Three things:
1) This does not in any material way affect my scholarship
2) I will stack my record, activities at age 23 next to Jason Kenney's any day
3) When we say there's a "chill" re:
#academicfreedom
, this is the kind of intimidation we're talking about
#abpoli
#cdnpoli
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"Look " says
@ABDanielleSmith
tellingly, "we don't know if public health inspections for E Coli are part of AHS or Alberta Health, or maybe public safety. We may need to integrate things we broke apart in May. But, hey, AHS & the hospital did a great job on the 1st outbreak." Not
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Gaining the approval of Premier Smith is not the "reason the
@UCalgary
admin called the riot police on the protesters" that I was asking the admin for. I want a *legal* reason given the case law saying even non-students have Charter expression rights on AB campuses. Waiting...
Smith said the universities have to take the lead on camping protests but glad that U of C took action they did.
Will watch to see if U of A learns from U of C approach and her government is on standby to help.
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UK research: "Trust is crucial, as research has shown that it is one of the largest behavioural predictors of compliance during this pandemic. ... As humans, we need to trust our authorities if we are to follow what they tell us to do."
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The principles of legislative drafting *are* taught in some law schools.
@UCalgaryLaw
teaches them as part of its first year Legislation course -- a course perhaps more appreciated in hindsight than when taken.
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Looks like colleagues
@BankesNigel
and
@molszyns
barely got this very fine legal analysis out there before Bill 1 is going to get passed in the Legislature.
Nothing like limiting 2nd reading to one hour to show how important
@ABDanielleSmith
thinks the Legislature is.
#ABLeg
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This 🧵 sums up what many Albertans, including me, think about the province's current political leadership and the selfish, self-entitled behaviour that
@jkenney
and the
@UCPCaucus
encourages. Their destruction of public good and goods is abhorrent.
#abpoli
Thread warning.
I'm just exhausted with this government & those it's encouraging to be selfish.
I love Alberta... so much so that I chose to make it my home. We could have picked anywhere in the world, but we chose here. Until recently, it has always been a proud choice.
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Hey,
@UCalgary
👀 "Universities now have no excuse to say that they cannot or will not divest or disclose." Para 278 of Friday's ICJ opinion "is effectively a requirement to sort out one’s relationships to Israel, and end those that enable, support, or normalize the occupation."
If I was a university administrator reading Friday’s ICJ opinion on Israeli activities in Palestine, I would reflect on its relationship to student encampments and demands to disclose and divest. 🧵
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@pqben42
Learned on a cute-as-a-bug Nash Metropolitan that looked like this, but had a touchy clutch.
Currently drive my 3rd Subaru with a manual transmission.
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Concluding "the UCP is subtly — or not so subtly — trying to bring about a new normal of authoritarian rule. Albertans of all political persuasions should be concerned."
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Sheila Greckol, retired Court of Appeal & Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta justice, on the actions of
@UAlberta
and
@UCalgary
Presidents: ignoring alternatives & calling in police who laid charges against students for their interactions with police, & not from any prior conduct.
Highly respected former Alberta Court of Appeal justice slams
@UAlberta
and
@edmontonpolice
.
#humanrights
via
@edmontonjournal
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Rodeo, the newest "basic human right" claimed to trump the actual right to life in s 7 of the Charter. The entitlement to ride a bucking bronco is a freedom, not a right. Freedoms are limited by duties to others, like the duty not to kill them. Sheesh.
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You are also right,
@molszyns
.
@ABDanielleSmith
's dangling of R-Star under the noses of the O&G industry is the photo that illustrates the dictionary definition of "moral hazard" - "a lack of incentive to guard against risk where one is protected from its consequences."
#abpoli
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Convocation
@UCalgaryLaw
today!
Congratulations to all 3rd year students on preservering and succeeding, including those who I know are on Twitter and who I have had the pleasure of teaching or working with:
@AliceAMacGregor
,
@N88TE
,
@DalalSouraya
,
@PWShyba
.
🥂🍾 🎉
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New paper:
@JenniferKoshan
& I review the last 5 years of the SCC's s 15 equality cases, focusing on the ideological tensions among members of the court over the commitment to substantive equality & s 15's promise to address systemic discrimination. See
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Colleagues
@kbiezenbos
and
@molszyns
agree part of the problem with regulation of toxic tailings is "there is no functional relationship between provincial and federal watchdogs." Their new concern: "the AER has eroded its own reputation because of a lack of transparency."
“Industrial leak at Imperial Oil site in Alberta highlights regulatory issues, experts say” — by
@EmmaLGraney
w/ commentary from
@kbiezenbos
& me.
#ableg
#cdnpoli
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Will Alberta be the only province without $10/day child care? The economic case for this deal is strong. The equality case for this deal is strong. We need to do this for *all* Albertans.
@jkenney
@Alberta_UCP
@UCPCaucus
#abpoli
#AbLeg
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In 1988, much-missed Patricia Monture sued the attorney-general and law society in Ontario on the basis that she should not have to take an oath of allegiance to the Queen because she was a member of a sovereign peoples, the Mohawk Nation. The rules were changed ...
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On grief literacy, “the capacity to access, process, and use knowledge regarding the experience of loss.”
“The only way to cure grief is to grieve.”
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My maternal grandfather, James Duncan Campbell, a private in the South Saskatchewan Regiment, died in the Dieppe Raid on this day 80 years sgo. He had enlisted in 1939 at the age of 42, the father of 8 children ages 1 to 15, and a farmer in the Moose Mtns.
#Dieppe80
On the 80th anniversary of the Dieppe Raid, we honour and remember those who were there.
If you have a story or know of a loved one who was part of the Raid, share with
#Dieppe80
.
#WeWillRememberThem
#LestWeForget
#CanadaRemembers
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Yet another province temporarily halts evictions for non-payment of rent. Evictions will continue for illegal activities, danger to people or damage to property. What's your excuse now
@jkenney
?
#abpoli
#AbLeg
Sask. gov't temporarily suspends residential evictions, one day after saying it wouldn't
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This paper, written with
@JenniferKoshan
, examines the SCC's failure to recognize sex discrimination vs women under the Charter's s 15 in all but 2 cases since 1985, and the reasons for these failures, including the lack of intersectional analysis.
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#25Klaidoff
. By a press release on a Saturday. After promising full funding for this school year on March 15. Those now laid off were working, providing support to vulnerable students, organizing food, delivering paper lessons for those without internet.
#abpoli
#AbLeg
This decision effectively adds 25,000 people to the unemployment line today, including 6,000 substitute teachers and up to 20,000 non-certificated staff. 5/6
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A Canadian university agrees to divulge, divest and boycott. An example for
@UCalgary
and
@UAlberta
of what is not only possible but also demanded by international humanitarian laws.
UQAM students have reached a settlement. UQAM adopted a resolution establishing an academic boycott against Israeli universities. They pledged not to hold any assets in funds or companies profiting from armaments, & to disclose their list of investments
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Just published: Canada's Surprising Constitution: Unexpected Interpretations of the Constitution Act, 1982, well edited by
@HowieKislowicz
,
@KerriFroc
and
@richard__moon
, and containing one of my favourite papers that I've written with
@JenniferKoshan
, now Ch 10:
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When you do not apply the law equally, "you no longer are being governed by the rule of law, you’re being governed by the rule of a handful of people who are now making the calls about who the law should apply to":
@ericadams99
, constitutional law expert.
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I believe in well-funded legal aid so that vulnerable clients are competently represented not only in criminal law matters, but also in family law cases, mental health hearings, and more. I support
#lawyersforlegalaid
.
@shandro
@MLAIrfanSabir
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Excited to see this
@UCalgaryLaw
grad, former AB Provincial Court / Public Interest Law Clinic articling student, & Nunavut Court of Justice law clerk opening her Calgary practice in areas of law that she wrote about on
@ABlawg
while a student. Follow the dream,
@amymatychuk
!
Hey legal Twitter! I’m insured as a sole practitioner starting today and I’ll be building a practice in
#yyc
focused on assisting those who’ve experienced unfair treatment in the prison and police systems. I’d really appreciate your retweets and referrals! DM me for more info.
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"I think in 20 years when I tell a young lawyer that in 2021 we walked into court and called judges ‘my lord’ and ‘my lady,’ they will laugh" ...
A relatively minor piece of classism but still worth removing.
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A wonderful and well-deserved appointment of
@UCalgaryLaw
colleague, Lisa Silver (
@Ideablawg
). While the law school will miss her criminal law & evidence expertise, teaching skills, & willingness to step up & get things done,
@KingsBench_AB
will be better for her appointment.
(8/14) It is with great pleasure that I announce the appointment of Lisa Silver as a Justice of the Court of King's Bench of Alberta in Calgary.
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Only for those sentenced to less than 2 years (which you downplay). And since when does Alberta have money to spend on duplicating a current federal service? Or is this about privitization? Not every Albertan has the same values on these issues to justify talk of "our values."
Alberta has now introduced a bill to create our own Parole Board.
This means replacing Ottawa’s appointees with Alberta’s for a fairer, faster, and more responsive justice system that works for our values and our communities.
Promise made, promise kept.
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It's not consultation when the UCP lectures at the people they are supposed to be consulting.
And it's more like gaslighting rather than consulting when they repeatedly say, as James Dinning is quoted as saying at the most recent "consultation",
Alberta CPP-exit panel argues with callers, tries to persuade naysayers at town hall via
@edmontonjournal
This story matches what I heard last night.
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Well worth a listen: today's interview with U of T's Audrey Macklin on the facts about Canadian immigration and refugee law.
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On Grassy Mtn coal mining, a welcome expert legal opinion:
(1) Northback is not entitled to apply to the AER, and (2) the AER has no business considering the merits of these applications because they are subject to the general “no new coal rule”.
#abpoli
#ableg
New Post: The AER Does Not Have the Jurisdiction to Consider New Coal Applications for the Grassy Mountain Coal Deposit
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"... people who receive income support payments have their needs re-evaluated each month" -- but
#UCP
eliminated 223 Community & Social Services positions. Who is available to decide every month if someone gets a bus pass? The uncertainty & constant evaluation. Cruelty.
#abpoli
This is what cruel looks like.
#ableg
Transportation benefits vanish while government denies changes | Edmonton Journal
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More than 4 decades since affirmative action was enshrined in section 15(2) of the Charter as one way to achieve substantive equality, rejecting the impoverished idea of treating everyone the same, no matter their differences, and people like Sarkonsk still pretend not to get it.
Dear Jamie Sarkonak: Please understand that in Canada, we have this thing called substantive equality. In fact, it is guaranteed under our Charter, and it encompasses merit. via
@nationalpost
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What?! Premier Kenney reluctant to stop Alberta landlords from evicting their tenants because he thinks too many of them are criminals? And not the students, elderly, disabled -- and now the recently unemployed -- that almost all really are? Stop evictions now!
#abpoli
#ableg
VIDEO: Jason Kenney claims many Albertans at risk of eviction are involved in vandalism or growing marijuana
“Many of them would be renters who have not paid their rent ... or who have been engaged in criminal activity or vandalism or operating grow-ops”
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@OrlaghOKelly1
So the lawyers who signed this Petition are objecting to the
#LSA
's response to TRC Call to Action
#27
which calls upon Canadian law societies to ensure *all* lawyers have received appropriate cultural competency training? Objecting precisely because its mandatory for all?
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Well-deserved promotions of thoughtful and engaged colleagues doing interesting and important work! 👏
Darn nice people to work with too! 🤩
Congratulations to Profs Lyndsay Campbell,
@davevwright
and
@robert_rch
on your promotions! Lyndsay to full professor, and David and Robert to associate professor with tenure! 🎉👏
@LawDeanHolloway
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Amazing accomplishment by one of
@UCalgaryLaw
's most engaged & engaging students,
@TheHeidikins
, who aims to use her JD, MBA, CFE & CFA to bridge academic & industry expertise across law, business & finance to address white collar crime.
Second-year student
@TheHeidikins
is the only Canadian winner of an anti-fraud scholarship from
@TheACFE
:
@LawDeanHolloway
@sanaaahmed_
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More international recognition for one of my favourite places, Dinosaur Provincial Park. Already a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is now recognized by UNESCO and the International Union of Geological Sciences for its geological importance.
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Young Canadian lawyers leading the way with a massive access-to-justice initiative to provide those in need of any type of legal advice with up to five hours of service.
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The Alberta Energy Regulator "chose to treat a multi-million dollar company that deliberately operated a sour gas plant without the required license for a month and a half like a kid who drove to the grocery store and forgot their license and ID at home."
#abpoli
New post: Administrative Penalties at the Alberta Energy Regulator: A Gentle Slap on the Wrist for Ovintiv
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A chilling must-read that includes interviews with former
#UCP
staff on the Kenney-led "Lord of the Flies devolution to gutter politics" where "vulgar displays of bullying and intimidation were not only allowed but encouraged and celebrated" by ministers & staff.
#abpoli
The Bully Who Haunts Alberta's Election
Fantastic article on the UCP's undemocratic trolling of critics
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Sad to read this news of the death of Joseph Raz, who I was fortunate enough to take a course from at Columbia in 1991. He was so clearly and immediately brilliant as a teacher, and he was also a very kind and perceptive human being. I am grateful to have met this man.
A giant of jurisprudence and philosophy, Joseph Raz, Emeritus Professor of the Philosophy of Law
@OxfordLawFac
has passed away. A student of HLA Hart, Raz trained countless students, many now in philosophy & law faculties ard the world. His importance cannot be overstated.
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This needs to change *now*. April rent will be due in 11 days. No evictions! This is not a private property issue. It is now a public health issue. Among other things, it is wrong to force people to look for another place to rent and to move, putting them and Albertans in danger.
Alberta premier reluctant to legislate renter protection from evictions
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