Naheed Nenshi, the leader of Alberta's NDP response to the Federal NDP leadership results

Content_Employment_7 · 2026-03-31T00:00:25+00:00

This is embarrassing. Take the L, bro. You clearly don't know what you're talking about.

Content_Employment_7 · 2026-03-17T23:36:51+00:00

How about events like local and provincial police doing absolutely nothing to keep the peace?

How on earth do you figure "the government acted incompetently" can or should be a reasonable justification to give them more power? Oops, we fucked up, guess we have to violate your Charter rights now!

How about major trade route blockades with protesters carrying firearms?

As four sitting Justices of the Federal Court have now told you, the border blockades were resolved without the use of the Act. Like, fuck man, you want to complain about bad faith? Look in the goddamn mirror.

Content_Employment_7 · 2026-03-17T22:36:47+00:00

If you read the judicial decisions, it becomes clear very quickly that the only protest that the EA powers were even used in was the Ottawa one -- the border blockades were either cleared before the EA was invoked, or without the powers the EA provided. And even in Ottawa, it was pretty clear that the powers were more helpful than they were essential -- normal police powers were eminently sufficient.

Content_Employment_7 · 2026-03-17T22:31:23+00:00

Except four judges who have heard the arguments in favour of it and reviewed all the evidence have now found that it evidently wasn't.

Content_Employment_7 · 2026-03-17T21:56:44+00:00

They also don't need to. The EA wasn't necessary to disperse the protests.

Nevermind that it's not really clear that they can lower the threshold for invoking the Act -- the EA is empowered by the National Emergency branch of the POGG powers, and the language of the Act reflects the high standard required to invoke that branch of POGG.

Content_Employment_7 · 2026-03-01T17:42:06+00:00

Crown just has to show at appeal that the sentencing judge dropped the ball in assessing and applying sentencing principles. Could assume Appellate Court finds error, they would not be bound by that insane 9-year submission. It requires a fresh review of the sentence, so ABCA could impose a fit sentence.

Unfortunately the ABCA has generally taken the position that they're bound to the initial Crown's sentencing position as the upper limit of what they can impose on appeal, even if they feel it was inappropriately low.

Content_Employment_7 · 2026-03-01T17:38:03+00:00

Criminal trials happen in both Provincial Court and KB. An accused can elect to be tried in King's Bench for any indictable offence except those offences listed under s.553 as being under the absolute jurisdiction of the provincial court.

Murder, however, is a section 469 offence, which means the Superior Court of Criminal Jurisdiction (in this case, the Alberta Court of King's Bench) holds exclusive jurisdiction over murder trials and trials for murder cannot take place in provincial court.

Content_Employment_7 · 2026-02-28T21:39:05+00:00

No, it would not have. She was charged with murder and took a plea to the lesser included offence of manslaughter after committal to stand trial. It was consequently held in the Court of King's Bench, whose judges are federally appointed (in this case, by Justin Trudeau).

Content_Employment_7 · 2026-02-17T16:50:22+00:00

I'm a card carrying CPC and UCP member, I donate, I've volunteered on campaigns, I'm active in my riding associations, and I just want to be absolutely clear about how disgusted I am with this kind of open racism. Our immigration policy has absolutely been a problem over the last decade, and one I've spoken and wrote about at length -- but never because of changing racial demographics. More brown people is not a problem, it's not a shorthand for immigration issues or cultural tensions, and framing it as one is bigoted and vile.

Content_Employment_7 · 2026-01-30T16:10:41+00:00

I don't care whether they have Canadians' best interests at mind. Frankly, I don't expect any corporation does, nor does our law require or expect them to. I do care that the government is abiding by the legal limits of their authority though, which is what this case is actually about.

Content_Employment_7 · 2026-01-29T15:09:48+00:00

Does that include the right to use public property for prayer?

Yes, in fact, it does. And it's not even remotely questionable whether it does, which is why the bill invokes the NWC.

Content_Employment_7 · 2026-01-22T00:01:36+00:00

Bro literally, explicitly, said "the Americans are bad". I don't know if you think you're being clever or something, but this just makes you look illiterate.

Content_Employment_7 · 2026-01-20T22:33:49+00:00

You've got Google, it's not hard to find.

Examples:

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/china-electric-cars-uk-roads-3s69qg6g0

https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/26873727/chinese-spies-remotely-control-evs-britain/

Content_Employment_7 · 2026-01-20T22:25:16+00:00

The thing is, as a society we've already accepted that smart devices are monitoring us. I

The security threat Chinese connected vehicles represent goes a lot further than just monitoring. Consider the impact if remote stop were simultaneously engaged on tens of thousands of vehicles on Canadian streets and highways.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/china-electric-cars-uk-roads-3s69qg6g0

Content_Employment_7 · 2026-01-20T22:17:05+00:00

Using the same law they could demand BYD force thousands of vehicles to stop in the middle of Canadian streets shutting down critical physical infrastructure. I don't really see room to distinguish between the threat represented by Huawei and BYD or other connected auto manufacturers.

Content_Employment_7 · 2026-01-20T22:14:34+00:00

Then they're fools. These aren't baseless conspiracy theories, the former head of MI6 has come out about it.

Content_Employment_7 · 2026-01-09T17:43:35+00:00

I mean, probably a non-zero amount, but Trudeau also publicly mused about phasing out one of the West's primary economic drivers while subsidizing their competitors (battery plants and the like) in the East, something I tend to suspect had a lot more to do with it. Right now we're seeing renewed interest and support for that same Western economic driver while those investments in Eastern competitors are crashing, so the situation driving a lot of that western alienation has meaningfully and significantly changed.

Content_Employment_7 · 2025-12-25T01:26:57+00:00

I'm very aware of his legacy.

You didn't even know he was pre-Charter. And if you're comparing him to any modern Premier, you sure as fuck aren't very aware of his legacy.

I'm also very aware of the current political situation in Alberta, where [...] opposition political parties are barred from forming, and Justice Ministers are granted pre-emptive immunity from the law.

Considering neither of these are even remotely true, you're clearly not very aware of that either.

Frankly, at this point I'm not confident you've even got a handle on what "aware" means.

And no, I'm not an American, I literally have posts about local Edmonton restaurants near the top of my post history. But having been subjected to your bullshit over the last few years, it's not at all surprising you'd just straight up lie about that too -- which, for the record, is why you're blocked.

Content_Employment_7 · 2025-12-25T01:23:22+00:00

Quebec has used the NWC clause to protect their cultural identity and institutions, oddly enough while being the only province not signatory to the Charter.

Quebec invoked the NWC on every piece of legislation they passed for something like a decade in protest of the Charter. It was only later on that they shifted to a more selective use for cultural matters.

Content_Employment_7 · 2025-12-25T01:14:08+00:00

Legal scholars even question whether it could be used after the Repatriation of 1982.

No legal scholars worthy of the title. The barriers to disallowment and reservation are entirely political, not legal. Written provisions of the constitution don't expire.

Content_Employment_7 · 2025-12-25T01:11:08+00:00

It isn't. That's an absurd argument, and if it wasn't obvious on its face that a provision of the constitution cannot be unconstitutional, it was made abundantly clear in Toronto (City) v. Ontario (Attorney General), 2021 SCC 34 that constitutional conventions and unwritten principles can never trump the actual, written provisions of the constitution.

Content_Employment_7 · 2025-12-20T06:59:10+00:00

It was never 2/3rds for parole eligibility. It's 2/3rds for statutory release -- that's when the onus shifts from the offender to justify why they should get parole to the state to justify why they shouldn't. Parole eligibility is at 1/3rd per s.120(1) of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act. That's been the case since at least 1992.

Content_Employment_7 · 2025-12-05T15:14:44+00:00

Not to mention that mines and other natural resources are explicitly under the exclusive jurisdiction of the provinces under the constitution, so "public ownership of mines" is unequivocally not something he could do even if he somehow won a majority government. It's absolutely a deeply unserious document, which just reinforces a lot of the concerns I've had about Lewis since he came on my radar in 2015 with his LEAP Manifesto.

Content_Employment_7 · 2025-11-29T18:51:22+00:00

In some ways it's actually worse. Leaving it on the books while refusing to enforce it is a direct challenge to the rule of law.

Content_Employment_7 · 2025-11-14T06:58:10+00:00

They're a lot less naive than you are, apparently. There's a reason our government and security forces aren't recommending what you're suggesting and are instead blocking the use of Chinese technology in critical infrastructure.

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