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by frabbit 5y ago
> Then write to your selected member of parliament and complain about it, help campaigns and candidates next election who better align with your view, or run yourself! What about an online petition or a bake sale? Less sarcastically: t
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by frabbit 5y ago
Like the Hong Kong protests? Those are illegal. I don't think your distinction is useful or clarifying. All that being illegal says is that the state has decided its not allowed.
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by frabbit 5y ago
Legal certainty? It was supposed to be the answer to the problems for the War Measures Act; the Constitution of Transitional Measures Act; the Emergency Powers Act; the Public Order (Temporary Measures) Act and some others I have forgotten
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by frabbit 5y ago
Why does that make democracy stronger? It's just an elaboration of a particular interpretation of the rules by jurists that are probably already not uncomfortable with the state. The outcome of those deliberations will be to some exte
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by frabbit 5y ago
> "complete prevention of the ability to feel safe" Kind of a hard thing to prove. I don't feel safe due to climate destruction. Can we invoke the Emergencies Act against the Canadian fossil fuel industry and the automot
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by frabbit 5y ago
This is very well put. The only acceptable protests seem to be those which are toothless. Somehow these people found an asymmetric cost situation and now the laws will be updated to take account of this edge case.
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by frabbit 5y ago
What happens to people's mortgage payments? Alimony? Child support? Food for the week?
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by frabbit 5y ago
Good links. In addition this interview by en ex-CSIS (Canadian spycops agency) employee suggests that the funding is getting to the organizers by some means other than those which go directly through payment processors. It would be interest
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by frabbit 5y ago
The Westminister system with party whips actually enforces this behavior. Apparently it has been getting worse: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/conservative-m...
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by frabbit 5y ago
The USA is not America either. And it is unfortunate that many Canadians do not understand that they are living in a state in which the parliament can be suspended by the unelected representative of the Queen (prorogation -- the same issue
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by frabbit 5y ago
> guess it's just natural for canadians to have this weird smug inferiority complex towards the US It's one of the less charming facets of Canadian culture.
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by frabbit 5y ago
To be fair to him the opinion polling does suggest that 54% of those polled were not in favor of the truckers: https://globalnews.ca/news/8610727/ipsos-poll-trucker-convoy... But yes, tiresome to see people tryin
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by frabbit 5y ago
How does it "make our democracy stronger"?
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by frabbit 5y ago
Couldn't they just criminally charge David Suzuki for "counselling to commit mischief" (current charge against the protest "leader") if he says that tree-sitting to stop old-growth fortest destruction is a good idea
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by frabbit 5y ago
I wonder if there are other interesting things going on with a desire for safety. The language used of "hurt" and "healing" in some of the press conferences and the lawsuit makes it seem like the feelings police are in
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by frabbit 5y ago
Most media here has suggested variously that they are "concerned about Russian influence", that the majority of the funding has come from the United States etc. They're whipping up a new War on Terror (currently funded by US
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by frabbit 5y ago
You also forget that the government of Canada invoked an act intended to be used in the most extreme circumstances when normal political, democratic processes were obviously impossible to follow. In addition they have induced GoFundMe and
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The Non-Commutativity of Seasoning [YouTube:Helen Rennie](youtube.com)
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by frabbit 5y ago
Sales and posting on HN.
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by frabbit 5y ago
Anything in this world that has survived for a long-time, had to be fit to withstand selective pressures. So look at what existed for long time, that's probably has properties to adapt well.". This seems confused and and misg
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by frabbit 5y ago
Sounds like some sort of military intervention is needed to save those kids.
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by frabbit 5y ago
Adding fan to the mix greatly improves the speed of this. It doesn't even have to be very forceful. (source: https://www.conservationphysics.org/wetstuff/wetstuff01.php ) I've had my eye on this sort of thin
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by frabbit 5y ago
Same for me. I really dislike it.
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by frabbit 5y ago
I generally do not read/watch/listen to the CBC. I got tired of their NPR-ish comofortable liberalism which always drifted into conservatism a long time ago. Sure, there were occasional nods to the idea that not all was happy in
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by frabbit 5y ago
To me Idiocracy is a disgusting classist assault on the poor. Whenever I hear someone praise it my opinion of them drops like an aeroplane with a broken wing.
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by frabbit 5y ago
Idiocracy imagines a future so dumb that Idiocracy is the acme of political satire for the Jen Psakis of the world.
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by frabbit 5y ago
This is definitely the answer... people glossing over this should note that the What You Mean part is reflected in the GUI and makes production of quite sophisticated documents easy. As you expand your LaTeX knowledge you can move on to in
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by frabbit 5y ago
It's interesting how the most apparently compelling arguments that were made against people wearing masks turn out to be false in practice. I can think of two categories: 1) the claim that the wearing of masks would impede law enforce
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by frabbit 5y ago
That is exactly what is under dispute and it is un-sourced and worded very loosely. Not impressive for an organization that encourages citations of original source material.
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by frabbit 5y ago
These are the specific accusations from the Grayzone: https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/10/wikipedia-formally-censor...

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