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As a former card-carrying Conservative, I'm already deciding to vote ABC.

Oh no! Anyways...

I despise that there's "legitimacy" given to a lot of woo out there. I mean, there's medicine, there's things that sometimes works that we can't figure out, and then there's people just trying to see what shit works (pun intended). Maybe we should label some things as "experimental" or not call it something that sounds "official."

Yup.

Anyone can get a lawyer to write a Cease and Desist for any reason the client pays for. The proof is if anything happens if Ford doesn't follow up with the demands.

I could watch Boimler hop in the saddle and exclaim "Riker" over, and over...

LD is full meta jokes about things in universe. Little jokes like this 'behind the scenes' is a great joke too.

Don't forget the words of our leader of His Majesties Loyal Opposition, and possible future PM: "My view is that we need to engender the values of hard work and independence and self reliance. That's the solution in the long run -- more money will not solve it."

He's apologized since, but you as they say, you understand how someone truly feels the first time they say something, unfiltered.

2/10. I get the impression that they couldn't afford good writers, but the production heads could afford a LOT of cocaine. The end result is a Trek-ish setting around the biggest Mary Sue trope ever written against a character that they could not ever get up to 'likeable.' Watch as Star Fleet Officers constantly break the rules, run off without communicating effectively, disregard orders, or just plainly talk-back with amazing levels of snark to superiors. Somehow they are all written up as heroes instead of all being removed from duty and forced to spend years in front of councillors for their war PTSD... or time-travel PTSD... or mirror-universe PTSD..., discipline and corrective actions for their MANY examples of insubordination, their ship broken up to figure out space-mushroom instantaneous-travel in a post-dilithium universe, remedial training once cleared to return to figure out the changes in the world around them after the jump, and even then being kept on a short-leash because they obviously can't be trusted: they don't even fully trust each other and have demonstrated time and time again that they make the wrong decision because of their own ego...

STLA, though what will happen is that the government though the Lt-Gov will probably increase appointments to the LSS to start, and push for harder enforcement. If STLA and judges become too political over time, the answer just might be to remove self-governance through the LSS.

This doesn't bode well for the law profession in Saskatchewan. Moe is a terrible dirtbag, but this isn't the USA where there's an equal legal branch to the government and lawyers can spout off whatever they want; the supremacy of parliament will get exercised and the lawyers will find themselves in a tough spot.

If New York is the City that never sleeps, Toronto is the city that has a 11pm bedtime.

The Canadian naval custom of naming ships after locales started in WWII, most notably as a alternative naming strategy for the 'Flower Class' Corvettes. While the UK found great utility of the thought of a German U-Boat getting sunk by a HMS Pansy, Canada wanted to give a sense of involvement in the war, so that the people of Chilliwack can feel a sense of pride when their HMCS Chilliwack participates in the sinking of U-744, for example. That cuts both ways of course, like for HMCS Lévis... The result of being able to fund-raise and create Navy Leagues to assist in the welfare of sailors at that time significantly helped with the life of RCN, RCNR and RCNVR sailors at that time.

In LDs though, the name 'Parliament' class is a bit odd. If they are naming after places with a Parliament, Toronto makes sense because Queen's Park is here, but Vancouver wouldn't have a Parliament. The capitol of BC is Victoria...

Well, depends. It certainly can be used in a variety of situations. The basis of the notwithstanding clause doesn't require that rights be set aside, it can be used to identify that an interpretation of rights is incorrect. For instance, where rights have been determined in the outcome of a case that isn't deliberately mentioned in the relevant act, it would be perfectly acceptable for parliament to use the notwithstanding clause to say "no, that's not what is written in the law we wrote." The 'threat' of using the notwithstanding cause in Ontario recently in the Ford government is a good example of that. They ended up not needing it because the courts determined that the original ruling was probably 'wrong' before it was needed...

In this case, gender expression is a right that has been established repeatedly despite it not being explicitly mentioned in Section 15. (1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom (the basis is that gender expression is related to the sex of the individual). So, it 'technically' could be used correctly in this situation, but they are certainly assholes for fighting people for expressing their gender when it has been firmly set outside of the language.

I agree. To think that all those suffering Lyme might not have contracted the disease if we had continued offering a Lyme vaccine...

Technically, what it's the parliament saying "this is the law, no matter what anyone else thinks of it." It's not suspension of law - an equal legal branch forming government is a feature of the United States. Here, like a lot of Westminster Parliamentary style governments, democracy is supreme to any rise of a kritarchy.

Sorry Hoss, but DDT doesn't work anymore. http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/bb-ddt.html

Actually, withholding Assent is the circuit breaker. The NWC is a mechanism to ensure that parliament makes the law, not judges. A judge may have a perfectly reason for making their verdict, and it totally makes sense to do so by a good number of the populous, but parliament is in charge and they're allowed to set the rules.

Drug Ford passed a law shrinking city council after the whole 'election thing' kinda started. People got a judge to say that's unconstitutional (and reading the reasons to the verdict - it was all sorts of crazy talk about how it was unconstitutional. Drug Ford said he would use the NWC to pass a replacement law doing the same thing, but that wasn't necessary as the next level of courts looked at the original ruling, went "yeah, the Government is TOTALLY going to win on appealing this - let's just say they're allowed to resize the council and call it a day."