#colbycosh — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #colbycosh, aggregated by home.social.
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One of the #OttawaConvoy organisers has had his acquittal for intimidation overturned: "It wouldn’t do for your National Post to overlook the Court of Appeal’s firm and unanimous response, which includes dozens of quotes from past Canadian caselaw to the effect that, hey, you can’t do something illegal just because you’re a protester protesting."
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When destroying your phone lands you in jail
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/when-destroying-your-phone-lands-you-in-jailThe duress password case, brought to the general public by #ColbyCosh.
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"for the opposition parties. You lie; your opponents accurately accuse you of lying; and your own voters wonder why those nasty people across the floor can’t help being so negative and divisive and grouchy."2/2
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"Imagine, if you dare, a different Canada, a Canada where we’re not all hostage to the whims of a few for-profit grocery chains. Imagine a Canada that had cooperative non-profit alternatives, ones anchored in strong socialist and community ideals. A whole network, even, of purely local institutions owned by their customers and governed by member-elected boards. Any profits earned could go back directly to the members"
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Québec advises on Supreme Court appointments.
"That state of affairs came about, of course, because Quebec asked for it and the federation was mysteriously powerless to say no. And it is part of an elaborate “arm’s-length” and “non-partisan” judicial-appointment framework that has, by some magic, created a senior judiciary absolutely dominated by former Liberal Party of Canada donors."
Why shouldn't Alberta have a say?
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/colby-cosh-why-can-quebec-ask-for-judicial-reform-but-not-alberta
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"There is, in other words, a left-right popular front in England against assisted suicide, one that had time to coalesce because of upper-house obstruction. Canada’s role in this has been to provide newsy examples of horrors and procedural weaknesses in our “MAID” regime, and we continue to feed the U.K. tabloids dependably. It wouldn’t be too far off the mark to say that the debate in England boils down to, “Do we want to become Canada or not?”"
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/canadas-horrifying-example-causes-u-k-to-think-twice-about-euthanasia
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#ColbyCosh on 24 Sussex:
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/24-sussex-is-an-insult-to-canada-come-off-it-bro"Leaving aside all cost issues completely, it makes perfect sense that our prime minister should inhabit a guest cottage behind the viceregal palace, and not in some boreal version of the White House, which is both source and symbol of the toxic American cult of the chief magistrate."
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Costco's tariff lawsuit hints that Americans are tiring of protectionism
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/colby-cosh-costcos-tariff-lawsuit-hints-that-americans-are-tiring-of-trump-protectionism -
"One interesting thing about being middle-aged at the moment of the AI pivot is that I worry about not adapting to AI quickly enough. I wonder if anybody else ever feels this way, ever feels all at once how they’ve already lived through several sequential lurches in techno-history."
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-ai-future-is-here-but-it-comes-with-enormous-risk