Soft on crime judges…

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The MSM reports that this is a blow to the Harper tough on crime agenda, as if it were not about policy, about judges or really mild sentences but an ongoing battle between them and the hated Conservatives. Meanwhile as I point out at The Rebel…

We aren’t talking about people caught possessing small amounts of drugs, we are talking about people caught and convicted of repeat drug trafficking, of being a pusher, of feeding addicts and hooking your kids.
But in a 6-3 decision the unelected judges on the nation’s highest court ruled that the mandatory minimum was too much, that it was contrary to the constitution because it was a “cruel and unusual punishment.”

More here….

Oh, Shiny Prime Minister!

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(Ah, here’s what I was looking for.)

So, to summarize, the PM went to a place and learned about a thing. During the speech that followed, he excitedly suggested he wanted to talk about the thing he just learned. A reporter was disinterested in playing along, and tried to ask a more relevant question, but Trudeau ignored him and launched into what was clearly a pre-prepared treatise on the thing.

We Are All Metis People

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Back in 2006/2007 the aboriginal leaders of Canada got together to meet about how best to use promised increases in federal aboriginal funding. The mix included elite representatives of the Inuit, Metis, Non-Status and certified First Nation’ers. Behind closed doors the ‘meeting’ dissolved into a screaming match with the tension of a brawl as they argued about who deserved more of the pie due to their indianess. That argument has never ended… You see the same thing with big name sports names – that guy is making 1.5 million so I should be making 1.5 million – that is where this is going to go and the complaints should be hitting the wall soon (if not already). The court has in actuality, removed the exclusivity of the various types of aboriginal people. We will see cordial congratulations from other groups such as the FN’s but keep in mind that the older argument has never went away and neither has the greed. I bet my toque, that what is to come will be a few more years of arguments in court deciding who gets what and who decides who gets what. This is Canada, you just can’t treat everyone the same…

Given the Failure Of Government To Meet The Needs Of First Nations Peoples®, you’d think they’d be fighting to stay out.

Assisted suicide, school bullies and the Uber fight!

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The assisted suicide legislation is out and neither side is happy, this my friends is not the end but the beginning of many court battles. What about conscience rights? And why are activists upset? Where do they want to take this next.
Warren Kinsella joins Brian with a political round-up. Faith Goldy has details of her trip to Halifax to investigate the refugee bullying story and do cabbies need to be compensated for Uber? All that plus your phone calls.

Chinada

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Colby Cosh;

Vancouver is becoming more prominent on all our constitutional tiers because of the pervasive sense that Canadians are being driven out of the most prestigious, picturesque parts of the city by fast-rising prices. Which could just be a matter of Vancouver transitioning to the status of an expensive global alpha city like London — a hemispheric capital, a new Hong Kong to replace the now communist-dominated old one.
I say “just,” but not everyone wants Vancouver to be an offshore Chinese city.

We Are All Metis People

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CBC;

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that tens of thousands of Métis and non-status Indians are the responsibility of the federal government, ending a 17 year court battle.

Who’s a “Metis”?

“Métis” means a person who self-identifies as Métis, is distinct from other Aboriginal peoples, is of historic Métis Nation Ancestry and who is accepted by the Métis Nation.”

(Darcey, my friend! We need to talk.)

The Sound Of Settled Science

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It was one of the largest, most rigorous experiments ever conducted on an important diet question: How do fatty foods affect our health? Yet it took more than 40 years — that is, until today — for a clear picture of the results to reach the public.
The fuller results appeared Tuesday in BMJ, a medical journal, featuring some never-before-published data. Collectively, the fuller results undermine the conventional wisdom regarding dietary fat that has persisted for decades and is still enshrined in influential publications such as the U.S. government’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans. But the long-belated saga of the Minnesota Coronary Experiment may also make a broader point about how science gets done: it suggests just how difficult it can be for new evidence to see the light of day when it contradicts widely held theories.

Do tell.

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