this is a great idea imo. participants in criminal legal systems with decision-making power should understand the human consequences of their decisions. i'd argue this extends to the lawyers, too - prosecutors & defense. make it part of their/our CPD.

Well, shit. I wrote something about this team we've been watching #bluejays www.humandchuck.com/baseball/202...

Wasn’t able to watch WS live but apparently the Jonas Bros did some of a song at some point? I cannot express this urgently enough: NO. Baseball is not meant to be associated with entertainment. The beauty of baseball is its uninterrupted agony. The outside world must be barred from the stadiums.

I wanna posit this really big and awkward question: What does "Canadian digital sovereignty" mean for Indigenous Peoples here when Canada is not only giving up its pretences for "Reconciliation", but also increasingly hostile to Indigenous Peoples who oppose Canada as a resource extraction colony?

You want a nuanced analysis of "digital sovereignty?" Ask Indigenous people who have been thinking about this long before settlers have who take the notion of "sovereignty" for granted. That's why Canadians are flailing about panicking now. They didn't barely considered this a "thing" until Trump

I've yet to see a single discussion of "Canadian digital sovereignty" include any Indigenous experts, at best we're given a token mention that at some point they'll "consult with Indigenous Peoples" like we're some sort of monolith. Umm, y'all need to consider all our lands, and our distinctiveness.

It's as if there's some sort of weird cognitive algorithm in the minds of settlers that Indigenous Peoples = backwards and savage therefore anything tech related doesn't apply to them. Ummmm, you do realize all this "Canadian digital sovereignty" stuff requires unfettered access to Indigenous land.

What is it about tech that gets a pass when it comes to respecting Indigenous rights? Why is it that the Internet itself depends on trespassing through Indigenous territories yet it's framed as something that we're given access to through some sort of charity? Why are we never even considered?

the number of times I've seen Canadians give land acknowledgements at tech conferences and then immediately launch into discussions about "Canadian digital sovereignty" that completely excludes any concept of Indigenous rights or even us as Peoples at all. It's absurd, I can't wrap my head around it

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh". www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

The Toronto Blue Jays are AL East champions. For the first time since 2015, the division belongs to Toronto. You never know where a season will take you.

another canadian govt obsessed with attacking children's rights and trans ppl. minors, trans or otherwise, need protection from the ab govt & the kinds of adults who are so obsessed with hurting children in a fruitless attempt to end trans existence. every other govt in cda needs to step up, now.

WHY is he being eulogised in the CDN Parl anyways? they care about political violence but only when it's the guy who advocated for the eradication of trans people, the subjugation of women, the brutalisation & inherent inferiority of immigrants & ppl of colour, & the Great Replacement Theory?!

why i do criminal defense: governments like to lock people up. my job is to make that harder.

"“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed,” said then-Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Oct. 9, 2023, two days after the Hamas attack on Israel that launched the war." From Emily Tamkin, The Forward.

from the start to now, (when the perpetrators themselves aren't boasting about it), every stage of this genocide has been documented by its victims for the global public to witness, for its perpetrators and accomplices to see.

I really feel like people don’t know what prolonged starvation means because there is a point that even when a body receives food it cannot digest it. This means that it doesn’t matter if aid is dropped from the sky, many, many Palestinians need actual medical support to eat.

This is absolutely an important and positive precedent but this case is not about a claim for asylum/refugee status. It's also not a final determination; a Pre-Removal Risk Assessment is a sort of Hail Mary move to stop an imminent deportation while an application to stay in Canada is considered.

i'm saying this as a canadian trans law person to the trans people seeing this: the outcome of this decision is NOT ABOUT ASYLUM CLAIMS. a pre removal risk assessment is a final check "can we kick this person out" step for the person facing deportation. if the person says there's risk, immigration

Andrea Gibson has died.

important to celebrate the victories however small. for now, kids in alberta are protected from the dangerous (and creepy) state intrusion into their medical care

he's right and he's right to say it

belated but former SCC Justice Gérard La Forest passed away on 19 June, age 99. easily the single most influential voice in cdn extradition law & jurisprudence, his big hits included Schmidt (excluding the application of legal rights beyond s 7) and the majority in Cotroni -

for the last 100yrs, civilians make up half or more of casualties in all major wars. with the attacks over the past few days, esp after decades of global economic sanctions & diplomatic isolationism, the us and israel are barreling towards a situation where we WILL see those stats play out again.

Has anyone written about the intersection between Bill C-2 and Bill C-5? They are directly related but I haven't really seen anyone analyze that. Bill C-2 creates extra surveillance powers to further criminalize Indigenous people (and allies) resisting the "national interest" projects C-5 enables.

particularly troubling that levana transitioned & made this request in connection with a FEDERAL pen, but it's the PROVINCE changing the rules. like the govt saw an opportunity to jump on the anti-trans social movt (esp as against transfemmes and trans women) and took it. the bigotry is the point

1. Today, SCOTUS allowed for bans on trans care in a devastating, though limited, ruling in Skrmetti. It ruled discrimination against gender dysphoria is not trans discrimination, and used the same rationale used by VA to defend its interracial marriage ban. Subscribe to support my journalism.

The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity

One thing I am seeing misreported in the media today about the Skrmetti ruling is a claim that the supreme court ruled this is "about age, not transgender status." SCOTUS also ruled this is about "diagnosis, not transgender status" Bans targeting adults are likely legal under this ruling.

fuck Supreme Court released Skrmetti Roberts opinion, liberals dissent the awful outcome--blessing anti-trans discrimination--isnt in and of itself surprising, but it's a bit stunning the way they're pretending the Equal Protection Clause isn't even *relevant* www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Premier Ford is deeply misinformed on the applicable law here, including the Treaty-based law, and his remarks below are just unconscionably rude and racist.

Stop using "felon" as a pejorative. I have known A LOT of people charged with or convicted of felonies who were good and decent people. When you have 4% of the world's population and 22% of the world's prisoners in a racialized police state, "felon" isn't predictive of anything, character-wise.

My heart goes out to all affected in Vancouver, especially the Filipino community celebrating their Indigenous resistance. VPD needs to release details. “Thirty-year-old lone man” evokes a clear image anyway if you’ve been alive this century. (Yes, the fallout is political & the act was terrorism.)

in case anyone was keeping score, extreme rw propaganda outlets were allowed to participate in the leaders' debate and they brought the refreshing perspectives of... genocide denialism and anti trans "gotcha" questions, to the table. definitely nothing to worry about in canada, all good here 🚨🚨🚨

this decision is the inevitable conclusion of a decade or so of relentlessly legitimising anti-trans hatred in public life and in legislatures. its effects will be materially harmful and literally deadly, which was their goal.

What a joke of a Supreme Court.

this would render ss 7-14 charter almost entirely inoperable. the part that says the gv't can't jail you for no reason, for whatever length of time it desires, with no recourse to the courts or to legal counsel. you know, those things the fascist US are withholding from the ppl it deports?

I know there are a hell of a lot of big international things going on but this story is huge too. may these women find rest and their families find peace. may those who did not consider them worth finding, find in themselves the capacity to do better.

If Canadians really want to support trans folks in the U.S., they have to fight like hell against the same anti-trans rhetoric and policies here at home. We literally have provinces passing anti-trans legislation. Canada is not safe.

CUPE 3903 Trans Feminist Action Caucus: Reaffirming Trans Solidarity 🏳️‍⚧️🐈‍⬛ For the full statement by TFAC, as well as a member-compiled list of trans organizations and resources, see our website: cupe3903.org/news/reaffirming-trans-solidarity/

with everything going on in the usa regarding both the major and rapid changes to the law/regs/practice re immigration and trans ppl, how the hell can canada responsibly issue a blanket "normal risks" status without at least a warning for trans people specifically?!

This is a full purge of every single LGBTQ employee at the NSA. Rufo is falsely mischaracterizing a LGBTQ employee resource group as a "sex chat" to create pretext to fire every single member in it. This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.

Right now, for a lot of Canadians the temptation is to ignore Indigenous people because the threats from the US seem way more important. This turn to fervent and ignorant nationalism is a mistake. Don't alienate the people who know more about your "country" than you do. Find common cause instead.

in light of the recent conversations in canada re bail reform, and alberta's questionable covid report, exciting news that a piece @mariemanikis.bsky.social and i have been working on is finally out! on covid, bail, and the jail, published in RDUS 53:3 :

Breaking news: Lambda Legal and ACLU are suing on behalf of PFLAG and GLMA to end Trump's illegal executive order banning trans care under 19 years old. The suit has been brought in Maryland. A similar suit was brought on behalf of PFLAG to end child abuse investigations in TX 3 years ago.

Another way is possible. Don't lose sight of that.

6. Sec 3(c): chilling. It directs the AG and state AGs to go after teachers that allow social transition for "sexually exploiting minors" or "practicing medicine without a license." This is likely going to be used to terrorize school districts and teachers with trans kids, and the kids themselves.

1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them. It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests. I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights. Find the EO here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...