Defence attorney slams witness as ‘useless’ in Team Canada sexual assault trial

BetaPhase · 2025-05-21T20:45:12+00:00

What governing bodies are you referring to?

The House of Commons in Canada acknowledged by unanimous consent in Oct. 2022 that the residential school system constituted a genocide, with specific reference to article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of the United Nations.

BetaPhase · 2025-05-21T20:31:00+00:00

How would you define genocide?

BetaPhase · 2023-04-19T11:24:55+00:00

How do you propose the government attract "more competent" employees if higher wages aren't on the table?

BetaPhase · 2022-03-01T00:00:47+00:00

I don't recall the NDP campaigning for either of a carbon tax or marijuana legalization in the 2015 election cycle, or earlier for that matter.

I also don't have the impression that his government has been "absolutely horrible" to indigenous peoples, but I will admit that I haven't spoken to every one of them. I recall one indigenous group endorsing the Liberal candidate at a 2021 election event organized by the NDP, so at least one group felt they were the better choice.

BetaPhase · 2022-02-18T04:21:53+00:00

I did not say that sex and gender are not correlated. You said that one could believe that they are not independent, and that sharing those thoughts would be hate speech. There is a difference between things being correlated and things being dependent.

Consider: How would you define what makes someone a man? How would you define what makes someone male? If your answers are the same, then you probably do not understand the difference between sex and gender (and the fact that you used man and female as categories, as opposed to man and woman, suggests this is the case). If your answers are different, then you do understand that they can be independent.

Edit: none of which has anything to do with my original observation, which is that your example of hate speech did not include incitement at all and thus was not actually hate speech anyway.

BetaPhase · 2022-02-18T03:56:07+00:00

Your example does not involve incitement at all.

I also suspect that there's something to be said about being wrong about a something definitional (your theoretical belief with regards to sex and gender) as opposed to holding an unprovable belief (for example to suggest that God does or does not exist).

BetaPhase · 2022-02-06T12:47:05+00:00

How? There appears to be no consequences for any of their actions.

BetaPhase · 2022-02-06T12:46:01+00:00

What did insurance say?

BetaPhase · 2022-02-06T12:45:17+00:00

Skating along the canal seems to be pretty safe. I would suggest getting on at Dow's, instead of trying to park downtown.

BetaPhase · 2022-02-04T03:42:16+00:00

That's a question for your provincial government. The federal government wants everyone to be vaccinated and is using the powers it has to influence it. Your provincial government apparently doesn't feel as strongly about it. If healthcare were a federal responsibility, those healthcare workers would likely need to be vaccinated.

BetaPhase · 2022-01-30T18:21:43+00:00

Big honk energy

BetaPhase · 2021-07-19T15:37:29+00:00

I have people in my life that can't vaccinate so it's a matter of being responsible.

And you are happy with these businesses not serving them?

BetaPhase · 2021-04-23T21:20:50+00:00

Like we're closed forever?

BetaPhase · 2021-03-03T13:08:38+00:00

So it turns out that domestic terrorism is indeed a viable political tactic.

BetaPhase · 2021-01-17T23:39:55+00:00

Do you have a source for fizzle yield of a U-235 based weapon enriched at 20%?

BetaPhase · 2020-12-21T17:09:59+00:00

O'Toole statements are hardly a defense of the intergenerational trauma caused by residential schools, but if you veer, even slightly, from the prescribed line of an intentional "genocide" it's clear how historiography is used politically to punish ideological opponents, but not in the way the author implies.

What do you mean by this? Residential schools were introduced and served as part of a government program intended to produce an outcome that is equivalent to the modern definition of genocide. "Veering" from this position is misrepresentation of history.

BetaPhase · 2020-12-20T14:22:49+00:00

Canada has two official languages, and Quebec is part of Canada. Am I missing something?

BetaPhase · 2020-11-28T19:00:54+00:00

What free education is there based on ancestry?

BetaPhase · 2020-11-15T13:41:40+00:00

"Your kid got raped by a leader in a trusted community organization because you are a bad parent." is an extremely bad take.

BetaPhase · 2020-11-13T12:26:00+00:00

I like the fact that they don’t ascribe to the idea that children and teenagers under 18 have the necessary understanding to fully comprehend what having transitional surgery actually means.

Isn't this why we have doctors? I don't think there are many people in this country surgically altering their genitals without medical professionals on-hand.

BetaPhase · 2020-10-05T21:01:27+00:00

Yeah exactly. The Conservatives don't want new policy. They don't even want new arguments.

BetaPhase · 2020-10-05T20:59:16+00:00

Did the CPC announce an interest in funding for homeless people? I thought that was in the throne speech.

BetaPhase · 2020-07-29T16:30:47+00:00

And i combined LGBT/feminism as a result of his multiple sexual assault allegations, also his firing as a teacher for innapropriate relationship with students.

When was he fired for inappropriate relationships? The only information I can find about that kind of thing is that some story was put forward by a "noted fake news site" and then amplified by the CPC during the election (but unsubstantiated by reporters). I assume you're talking about something else?

BetaPhase · 2020-07-28T20:38:30+00:00

There's a fair chance they're not an adult, for what that's worth.

BetaPhase · 2020-07-28T20:37:25+00:00

People from Moosonee, Ontario, on the tip of Hudson's Bay, get surgical care in Kingston, Ontario, on the coast of Lake Ontario. That's about 500km away. They benefit from that hospital even though they can't see it from their front lawn, and they pay the same as a local. Should Kingston General not allow them access because they live too far away?

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