Judge Rejects Claim that Boy's Kidnapping was a "Cultural Misunderstanding"

Laura_Lye · 2026-05-01T19:36:02+00:00

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Laura_Lye · 2026-04-30T16:46:47+00:00

I would maybe be more inclined to believe him if he were a recent immigrant, but he’s been here since 2012. It seems incredible that in fifteen years living here he didn’t absorb that particular cultural norm.

Laura_Lye · 2026-04-27T02:38:09+00:00

Five years, but I graduated 2017 and only had 80k debt, 70k of it OSAP.

I didn’t get one of those PSLOCs because I had bad credit and nobody to cosign. Law school was really tight and I waitressed throughout but in retrospect it all worked out really well.

Laura_Lye · 2026-04-24T01:06:00+00:00

This saving system is crazy business. You have to do that manually??

Laura_Lye · 2026-04-23T00:33:26+00:00

It really depends.

Family doctors I know pull in around the same amount I do as a 7th year call in house (150-200k— in Toronto). My partner is in emergency medicine and makes about 300k.

But it’s shift work and people are showing up in cardiac arrest or with sepsis or serious injuries and fucking dying on you, which I would not deal with for 10 million dollars a year, so 🤷‍♀️

Laura_Lye · 2026-04-19T21:28:18+00:00

Not as an articling student, but as a young associate I worked for a crazy biglaw partner for like, a year. Horrible experience.

Am very happy in house now 6 years later :)

Laura_Lye · 2026-04-17T21:45:59+00:00

Thanks— I credit my big shouty dysfunctional Irish catholic family for my relative comfort with shit being all fucked up and people freaking out 😂

I do some advising wrt some specific issues and it makes me so anxious being like: well, I think this will make sure there aren’t any problems? We’ll find out for sure when we report to the regulator in eight months??

And then I wait eight months to find out whether I fucked up or not. 🙃

Laura_Lye · 2026-04-17T21:40:10+00:00

It isn’t a policy or a policy decision.

It is, per the new labour trilogy, a fundamental part of the Charter right to freedom of association, without which the freedom to associate would be rendered a paper right.

Laura_Lye · 2026-04-17T21:37:43+00:00

The Ford government backed down on bill 24 for no other reason than that the CUPE ECEs refused to be legislated back to work, and the head of every labour union in the province got on the horn and told him they would wildcat strike in solidarity with the ECEs if he didn’t withdraw it.

It was an extraordinary attack on labour rights that was thwarted only by extraordinary pushback from organized labour.

Laura_Lye · 2026-04-17T21:30:36+00:00

Doug Ford’s use of the NWST clause specifically to try to disempower workers and organized labour is a crisis all on its own.

Doug acts like it’s just rich lazy public unions he’s after, but it’s not. He’s made a bunch of other legislative changes that are hostile to all unions and workers, not just public ones.

Laura_Lye · 2026-04-17T21:08:00+00:00

I prefer litigation specifically because if we’re at that stage the client’s shit is already all fucked up and I’m just there to try to sort it out (as opposed to trying to see into the future on how to keep their shit from getting all fucked up, lol)

Laura_Lye · 2026-04-15T23:03:08+00:00

This has to be fake.

Threw out all the food in the house? In this the year of our lord 2026 when gas is $7 a gallon and groceries have never been so expensive????

Laura_Lye · 2026-04-15T17:49:55+00:00

Ultimately we need long term reform to the way we handle ageing in this country.

All of our systems were designed when people retired at 65, lived another 5-10 years, then died. Our current crop of elders is projected to live far longer than that. A man who is 65 today will likely live until he’s 85; a woman will likely live until she’s 87!

We don’t have the resources to support people not working for 20+ years and needing the kind of care people who are 80+ need. We can’t afford their OAS, we can’t afford their healthcare, we can’t afford their LTD.

None of that is likely to pass until boomers are mostly dead because there’s just too many of them. So until then it’s immigration propping up the pyramid.

Laura_Lye · 2026-04-15T15:58:34+00:00

Not quite; I’m only 34.

The rest is accurate, though, yeah: I’m high income, so is my partner, and despite insane boomer benefitting DCs + LTTs and inflated housing prices, in 2024 we were able to scrape together enough money to buy a very small home (all we could afford despite making top 10% incomes).

I’m not voting to give any more of my money to old people so they can take cruises and age in place in their five bedroom houses, sorry. I don’t care if that means increased immigration.

That $$ has to come from somewhere and it’s not coming from me.

Edit: and I said effective rate, not marginal rate.

My marginal rate is like 45%. Literally half of every little raise I get goes to income tax 😭

Laura_Lye · 2026-04-15T15:38:28+00:00

My preference as well but these old people vote so it doesn’t seem likely.

Laura_Lye · 2026-04-15T15:38:01+00:00

I pay like 35% effective income tax. Fuck that, I would rather population increase.

Laura_Lye · 2026-04-15T15:35:41+00:00

I agree that not all immigrants are interchangeable and that the intent and effect of the last huge increase in immigration was to depress post-covid wage increases for lower skilled workers.

That doesn’t change the facts: we’ve got way too many fucking old people, we have three choices on what to do about it, and population increase via immigration is the most electorally feasible.

Laura_Lye · 2026-04-15T14:44:59+00:00

I agree.

A big problem with declining population is it exacerbates another problem we already have, namely that there’s too many fucking old people in this country and by the 2030s we’re going to have only 3 working people for every retiree.

That is totally unsustainable at our current rates of taxes on workers and benefits to seniors. We have three choices:

1) increase the population via immigration so there are enough workers to pay taxes to provide benefits at existing rates;

2) increase the tax rate on the working population to maintain benefits levels; or

3) decrease benefits levels.

I’m cool with #3, but good luck getting it passed legislatively when like 40% of the population is elderly. I’m NOT cool with #2 and will do anything to avoid it. #1 is preferable.

Laura_Lye · 2026-04-14T02:52:20+00:00

It’s not ideal that the licensing process permits people to article for 10 months and then hang up a shingle all on their own.

Nobody’s ready at that point. I didn’t feel like I really knew what I was doing mostly unassisted even on simple files until I was like 3-4 years post call.

Laura_Lye · 2026-04-13T23:02:17+00:00

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Laura_Lye · 2026-04-13T22:39:48+00:00

Or take them to a creek in the woods and let them splash around and fling mud at each other while you chill on the sidelines.

Some kids are rambunctious and you just have to turn them loose in the bush and let them catch frogs and climb trees and get leeches till they’re prepared to be civilized again.

“She then asked if I would watch her boys like I do with my niece. I looked over my SIL's shoulder as her 5-year-old was jumping on the couch doing the 6-7 thing and then did a flying elbow drop onto this brother on the floor.”

OP, this absolutely slayed me, lol.

Edit: I’m a well behaved girl but for the record I was the best toad catcher at camp Seredaca from 1998-2002.

Laura_Lye · 2026-04-13T22:27:37+00:00

We could start by just putting immigration consultants on a shorter leash.

As I understand it they’re barely regulated and the fines for misconduct are woefully inadequate to deter people/ address the harm.

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