#daniellesmith — Public Fediverse posts

Here's a little gem from years ago that Yankee Doodle Dani wrote.

#daniellesmith #premier #Alberta

Danielle Smith Claimed Smoking Cigarettes Had Positive Health Benefits
https://pressprogress.ca/danielle-smith-claimed-smoking-cigarettes-had-positive-health-benefits/

Here's a little gem from years ago that Yankee Doodle Dani wrote.

#daniellesmith #premier #Alberta

Danielle Smith Claimed Smoking Cigarettes Had Positive Health Benefits
https://pressprogress.ca/danielle-smith-claimed-smoking-cigarettes-had-positive-health-benefits/

Here's a little gem from years ago that Yankee Doodle Dani wrote.

#daniellesmith #premier #Alberta

Danielle Smith Claimed Smoking Cigarettes Had Positive Health Benefits
https://pressprogress.ca/danielle-smith-claimed-smoking-cigarettes-had-positive-health-benefits/

Here's a little gem from years ago that Yankee Doodle Dani wrote.

#daniellesmith #premier #Alberta

Danielle Smith Claimed Smoking Cigarettes Had Positive Health Benefits
https://pressprogress.ca/danielle-smith-claimed-smoking-cigarettes-had-positive-health-benefits/

Here's a little gem from years ago that Yankee Doodle Dani wrote.

#daniellesmith #premier #Alberta

Danielle Smith Claimed Smoking Cigarettes Had Positive Health Benefits
https://pressprogress.ca/danielle-smith-claimed-smoking-cigarettes-had-positive-health-benefits/

Braid: Carney steps up as pro-Canada champion in face of Smith’s muddled federalism

The best campaigner for Canada in the Oct. 19 referendum won’t be a premier who claims to be…
#Canada #MarkCarney #Banff #DanielleSmith #MinisterDevenDreeshen #ThomasLukaszuk #UnitedCanada
https://www.europesays.com/canada/206000/

30 years into UN climate talks, the world is hotter than ever Provinces & the federal government are battling each other & activists, frustrated by political inertia, are escalating their protest tactics, taking direct aim at the #fossilfuel industry. All the while, the planet is heating up — with tragic results 🔥🌏
#Climate #Documentary #CBC
00:00 - COP28 & global promises
13:54 - The battle in Canada: #DanielleSmith takes on the feds
27:10 - The tragic consequences of rising temperatures

A judge said Edmonton police may have obstructed justice with 'veiled threat' over sentence. What happens now?

https://canlii.ca/t/kjjg2

I think the written decision of the Honourable Justice Fraser deserves a read, and I’ll include the relevant passage here as it relates to the EPS.

The EPS essentially interfered with how the Crown handled a serious case. In so doing, EPS Warren Driechel and others issued a remarkable threat to the courts to say that it would release additional information on the file if the sentence hearing was not satisfactory. The Edmonton Journal’s Wakefield walks us through the fallout.

[18] I find the actions of the Edmonton Police Service to be reprehensible. The veiled threat that they may release more information about this matter if they are not happy about the sentence I impose comes dangerously close, and may actually cross the line, into an attempt to wilfully obstruct, pervert, or defeat the course of justice in a judicial proceeding. I see little difference between the actions of Ms. Hankewich and those of former Alberta Justice Minister Kaycee Madu.

[19] I am at a loss as to how this action conforms with the motto that every uniformed officer wears on his or her shoulder, “Integrity, Courage, Community”. This action shows no integrity.

[20] In Canada, it has long been recognized that the police and the Crown Prosecution Service are separate entities. When that separation is not present, miscarriages of justice can happen.

[21] Although it is not usually my practice when giving a decision from the Bench, I am going to read a lengthy quote from R v Regan, 2002 SCC 12, starting at para 66 that explains the importance of the separation:

The need for a separation between police and Crown functions has been reiterated in reports inquiring into miscarriages of justice which have sent innocent men to jail in Canada. The Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall, Jr., Prosecution, vol. 1, Findings and Recommendations (1989) (“Marshall Report”) speaks of the Crown’s duty this way: “In addition to being accountable to the Attorney General for the performance of their duties, Crown prosecutors are accountable to the courts and the public. In that sense, the Crown prosecutor occupies what has sometimes been characterized as a quasi-judicial office, a unique position in our Anglo-Canadian legal tradition” (pp. 227-28). The Marshall Report emphasizes that this role must remain distinct from (while still cooperative with) that of the police (at p. 232):

We recognize that cooperative and effective consultation between the police and the Crown is also essential to the proper administration of justice. But under our system, the policing function – that of investigation and law enforcement – is distinct from the prosecuting function. We believe the maintenance of a distinct line between these two functions is essential to the proper administration of justice.

[22] Continuing in Regan, Justice Lebel goes on to state at paragraph 87 that:

…The expectation is that both the police and the Crown will act according to their distinct roles in the process, investigating allegations of criminal behaviour, and assessing the public interest in prosecuting, respectively….

[23] I urge the senior members of the Edmonton Police Service to read Regan, and the Marshall report. Hopefully it will remind them of the role they play in the justice system and the reason a separation between the police and prosecution is required.

[24] I can assure everyone present today, and everyone involved in this case, and everyone who has an interest in this case, that I make my sentencing decision without any fear of the Edmonton Police Service’s possible actions. However, I do find that their actions go so far beyond what is acceptable conduct by the police service that it should be considered at least a somewhat mitigating factor on sentence.

In supporting #DanielleSmith’s demands to force yet another bitumen pipeline on British Columbia, oil drunk #Liberals are done in #BC.

Voting strategically for #MarkCarney despite my continued rage over the environmental destruction #TMX has wreaked on #Burnaby and #BC was the dumbest leap of faith I’ve ever taken at the polls. Conservative kiss-ass Carney can kiss his strategic voters in BC goodbye.

This is no “nation building” project, it is a capitulation to Big Oil pressure under the guise of nationalism, and the start of yet another federal war on British Columbia and all those protecting it.

This dirty, useless, expensive project won’t get done without shady #American or #Saudi investors, #Palantir drones patrolling the skies of Northern BC, and the inevitable sacrifice and destruction of our beautiful coastline for Alberta’s greedy, dirty oil economy.

This project will be Mark Carney’s albatross to bear, hope it was worth it for these pitiful Liberal Traitors.

#cdnpoli #bcpoli #pipeline #climatedestruction #federaloverreach #LiberalBetrayal #appeasingseparatists #abusingfirstnations #shameonMarkCarney #elbowsdown #effCarney #effSmith #votingreformnow #proportionalrepresentation