• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    11 天前

    and travelling to Arizona to speak with Rob Schneider, a right-wing comedian whose controversial content prompted his removal from a Saskatchewan stage in 2024.

    Rob Schneider is right wing? I’m no fan of his comedy, but right wing?

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      11 天前

      Rob Schneider is right wing? I’m no fan of his comedy, but right wing?

      He’s a total asshole. Typical anti-woke bullshit. Anti-Vax, etc. But more importantly, he’s not funny.

      He calls himself independent but only because the Republicans hate him as much as Democrats.

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    11 天前

    12 months of “house arrest” with plenty of opportunities for travel, possibly even international travel, while working from home for an easy peasy job.

    Fuck. Arrest me too.

  • EatYourOrach@lemmy.ca
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    11 天前

    Good that cbc changed the headline.

    What immediately comes to mind when I read “convoy”:
    -a tweet from André Bear showing convites in Ottawa banging on indigenous drums and chanting Yabba Dabba Doo
    -Diagolon members smuggling guns at the literal Gun Smugglers Saloon in Coutts
    -that covid-snot-covered hot tub
    -freezing cold children sleeping in loud, polluted trucks for 3 weeks. The “convoy” repeatedly called their kids The Littles, and it was fucking weird

  • Auli@lemmy.ca
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    12 天前

    So she’s really recieved no punishment. Allowed to travel internally an now wants international travel. If she gets it what a joke of a legal system.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      11 天前

      The trucker convoy was a terrorist act but the Liberals just want us to ignore it. The response doesn’t smell right.

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      11 天前

      our legal system has always been a joke. always, for decades. Just look at the woman who was murdered in Toronto the other day by her ex-husband who was released like 2 to 3 days prior after being arrested for domestic abuse against her.

      Hell just watch the documentary “Dear Zachary” to know the joke that is our justice system. It is so incredibly/insanely easy to get away with shit here. It’s either you get a slap on the wrist or the Police fumble the investigation so much to the point the case is dimissed. either or is going to happen to you.

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        It is completely rational to be outraged by those tragedies, but using extreme anomalies to claim the entire system is a joke ignores both the data and the law.

        For example, citing Dear Zachary ignores the fact that Parliament unanimously passed Zachary’s Bill in 2010 specifically to close the exact bail loophole that Shirley Turner exploited.

        Bail is also not a free pass. Our jails aren’t empty. Over 50% of the provincial jail population consists of people on remand, meaning they are legally innocent but have been denied bail. 2023’s Bill C-48 enacted a “reverse onus” for repeat domestic violence offenders, making it significantly harder for them to secure bail.

        It is also just not true that it is “insanely easy to get away with it”. National statistics show that over 60% of adult criminal court cases result in a guilty verdict, and Canadian police consistently clear roughly 70% of all homicides. First-degree murder is still a mandatory life sentence.

        The system relies on judges trying to predict human behavior. Occasionally, those predictions fail with horrific, unacceptable results. But claiming everyone just gets a slap on the wrist or that cases are simply dismissed is an emotional reaction to a tragedy, not a factual assessment of how the legal system actually operates.