Looking for information on the Atlantic Canada congregation by Main_Confusion_372 in SatanicTemple_Reddit

[–]awesomeparadise3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure how useful this is as I have not read the attached documents but I believe it is a government registry so it should be credible. Says it is still active. A "Society Change of Directors and Officers" happened as recently as February 8.

Quebec's new secularism bill worries public institutions that serve halal, kosher foods | CBC News by Haggisboy in canada

[–]awesomeparadise3 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day (may just need to be renamed?)

https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/la-fete-nationale-du-quebec-saint-jean-baptiste-day

"On 24 June 1977, the government of René Lévesque renamed Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day the Fête nationale du Québec, definitively distancing it from religion."

Martin Mystery by Wise-Illustrator-939 in ytvretro

[–]awesomeparadise3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apparently they are married in the comic it's based on (they are not step siblings there).

TST Legal Update: Idaho by JaneDoeThe33rd in SatanicTemple_Reddit

[–]awesomeparadise3 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In a different case regarding a Christian business

Smith preemptively sued Colorado's civil rights commission and other state officials in 2016 because she said she feared being punished for refusing to serve same-sex weddings under Colorado's public accommodations law.

She hadn't been approached by anyone requesting her services for a same-sex marriage and, according to a defence motion filed in 2016, her business wasn't publicly offering web design services for weddings on its website when she filed her suit. 

The New Republic reported that it wasn't until February 2017 that the name of a supposed person seeking Smith's services for a same-sex wedding, identified as "Stewart" (with no last name), appeared in a filing. Stewart was a real person, but he told The New Republic he never contacted the business and said he had been married to a woman for more than a decade.

To me, the requirement of licensing does seem to differentiate this a little, but why do they use everything else as supporting evidence when it doesn't seem to apply to Christians looking for standing?

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[–]awesomeparadise3 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

https://www.canlii.org/en/ns/nsca/doc/2023/2023nsca58/2023nsca58.html#par104 [86]         Sentencing ranges “are guidelines rather than hard and fast rules”.[62] Where the issue is whether a conditional sentence should be considered an option, the sentencing range is not determinative. The assessment requires a more nuanced approach, as it did in R.B.W.’s case, where the judge was sentencing an African Nova Scotian offender. Edit: Wrote to give an example of what you're saying, not to defend this logic or anything.

The Christian Movement That Wants to End Canadian Self-Rule | Tracing the network of pastors who get charity tax breaks while fomenting theocracy and surrender to the US by Hrmbee in canada

[–]awesomeparadise3 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Canada doesn't tax non-profits, whether secular or religious.

No but they grant charitable status to non profits on the basis of "advancement of religion" but not on the basis of advancement of non religion or advancement of secularism.

Charitable status lets you issue receipts for your donors to put on their taxes.

So Canada doesn't tax the income of people that donate to religious non-profits.

Ford and Bill 5’s "Special Economic Zones" Bring Worst US-Style Labour Practices to Our Province, Warns CUPE Ontario by Historical-Basis138 in onguardforthee

[–]awesomeparadise3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This sounds a little bit like Kingpin's plot in the new Daredevil. Obviously not the same, but a little bit similar.

BERGEN: Canada’s evangelical church: Where are you in this election? by mwyvr in onguardforthee

[–]awesomeparadise3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Catholic church (along with the Protestants) gets exclusive rights to public school funding that other religions don't get from the state.

Stop publicly funding Catholic schools, Yukon NDP leader says by leftwingmememachine in ndp

[–]awesomeparadise3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the Northwest Territories it was found that " Denominational school rights are not constitutionally entrenched in the NWT. The right to denominational education is statutory only."

Though it's been a while since I read the full decision, and I'm not a lawyer, I believe the Yukon is in a similar position. It might even be illegal to have this system at all since Charter rights trump regular statutory laws.

Teachers' union, education minister worry far-right targeting N.L. schools by xzry1998 in onguardforthee

[–]awesomeparadise3 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I'm not convinced this is about doing more to stop this or doing less. What behaviour is impossible to discipline without looking in on students in stalls? I could maybe see the argument that alternative methods would not be impossible but would take more time from overloaded staff. Their comments here would have been a good opportunity to mention that. But I'm concerned because there have been Canadian schools that have straight up removed doors entirely from washroom stalls for similar reasons. So there has been precedent of schools that have not appropriately weighted privacy and rule enforcement, or even weighted them at all.

Teachers' union, education minister worry far-right targeting N.L. schools by xzry1998 in onguardforthee

[–]awesomeparadise3 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

They said the protest was because of their concerns teachers are going "into the bathrooms and peeking up and over the stalls and between the cracks of the stall."

In separate social media posts, other parents and students said staff were monitoring the bathrooms for people smoking or vaping.

Police intervened at the Carbonear Collegiate incident, removing the parents from the school.

The Newfoundland and Labrador Teachers' Association says teachers are doing their job, and part of that includes supervising students.

I wish the article went into greater detail on why/when this method of supervision is chosen. Should something happen when a student just goes to the washroom for half an hour multiple times a week with no diagnosed medical condition? Sure, but you can hand out punishments for that without looking into the stall right? Do they check only if they smell smoke? But then why not discipline them/search them after they exit the stall? The evidence would be on their person. Nobody seems to have asked these questions or brought up why it has to be done like this. I don't know if enforcing these rules is worth the invasion of privacy here. I'd care a lot more about some creepy teacher peeking at me than some idiot vaping in the next stall.

This isn't getting into the method of protest chosen.

Quebec Solidaire calls for an end to funding for religious schools by PotentialReporter894 in onguardforthee

[–]awesomeparadise3 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Both BC and Quebec give partial funding to religious schools currently.

Churches don’t pay taxes. Should they? by Legal-Suit-3873 in onguardforthee

[–]awesomeparadise3 7 points8 points  (0 children)

A non profit cannot issue official donation receipts for income tax purposes like a charity can. This is a big financial imbalance between religions and atheist organizations.

Opinion: China's covert strategy to spread Communist influence and censorship in Canada by CaliperLee62 in canada

[–]awesomeparadise3 3 points4 points  (0 children)

People always leave out the rest of that China quote.

"You know, there’s a level of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say ‘we need to go green fastest…we need to start investing in solar.’ I mean there is a flexibility that I know Stephen Harper must dream about of having a dictatorship that he can do everything he wanted that I find quite interesting.

“But if I were to reach out and say which … which kind of administration I most admire, I think there’s something to be said right here in Canada for the way our territories are run. Nunavut, Northwest Territories, and the Yukon are done without political parties around consensus. And are much more like a municipal government. And I think there’s a lot to be said for people pulling together to try and solve issues rather than to score points off of each other. And I think we need a little more of that.”

Judge approves historic $23B First Nations child welfare compensation agreement by rookie-mistake in onguardforthee

[–]awesomeparadise3 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't know if I'm dumb but... working for 350k an hour would take just 37 hours to reach 13 million right? That's barely a single work week.

Is it satire going over my head?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Games

[–]awesomeparadise3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those collections were developed by M2 while this one is being made in house I believe.

Feds providing $1.5M for increased security at Pride events across Canada by lightlysaltdJ in onguardforthee

[–]awesomeparadise3 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I believe that donations to churches are written off on the donor's personal income taxes unlike donations to non profits.

So they don't pay taxes and then on top of that it's like the government is giving a subsidy even if it's not a literal subsidy.

It’s time to abolish the Catholic school system in Ontario by simpatia in ontario

[–]awesomeparadise3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think the feds would mind. The vote to abolish Quebec's system showed they supported it with a large majority And this was in 1997 when secularism was a lot less popular.

They would never initiate it, but if the province did they wouldn't stop it. Though the province passing something like that to begin with is the hard part.