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It's the principle of equality to the law that is in play.

Gender-neutral hairstyling: salon owners will contest the decision Station10 Hair Salon has changed its mind and will appeal its court-ordered $500 fine. https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2236079/appel-tribunal-coiffure-non-genree-binaire Good luck to the Hair Salon! We need to reform our Justice system!

A man who stabbed his girlfriend to death at a shopping centre in British Columbia received a lighter sentence partly because of his race. Everton Javaun Downey, 35, stabbed his girlfriend, Melissa Blimkie, 15 times in a stairwell at the Metrotown Shopping Centre in Burnaby on Dec. 19, 2021. Downey fled the scene with the murder weapon before later turning himself in to police. Downey was convicted of second-degree murder and was sentenced last month to life in prison. The Crown was seeking no chance for parole for at least 15 years, but B.C. Supreme Court Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes went with 12 years after reviewing Downey’s Impact of Race and Culture Assessment (IRCA). “As I have indicated, Mr. Downey has a substantial criminal record involving violence and firearms. I recognize, however, that the aggravating effect of his criminal record is offset in part by the mitigating circumstances of his background, as detailed in the IRCA,” Holmes said in her Feb. 13 decision. Similar in function to Gladue reports for Indigenous offenders, IRCAs are designed to “help criminal justice professionals better understand the effects of poverty, marginalization, racism, and social exclusion on Black and racialized offenders and their experiences,” according to the Department of Justice. IRCAs were first developed by a Nova Scotia sociologist in 2014 and are now increasingly used in Canadian courts. The IRCA in Downey’s case, authored by University of Calgary social work professor Patrina Duhaney, describes Downey as a “Black man of African Nova Scotian, African American and Jamaican ancestry.” However, it notes that he did not experience “overt racism” in his early life. “He grew up in Toronto in predominantly Black and racially diverse neighbourhoods and attended racially diverse schools, and felt that he did not experience overt racism,” according to Holmes’ decision. “Mr. Downey explained to Dr. Duhaney that his experience living in communities which normalized racial diversity shaped his early sense of identity and belonging.” In 2016, Downey moved to British Columbia, where he felt adrift. “Here, he found a much smaller Black population, and the cultural norms among Black communities felt unfamiliar to him, and contributed to feelings of disconnection and isolation. He also experienced racism in ways he had not previously encountered, both in the community and in the institutional setting,” Holmes writes. While Downey had “a significant criminal record that includes serious offences of violence,” which predated his time in British Columbia, in Holmes’s view, the IRCA submission made “clear that broader systemic, structural, and community factors relating to Mr. Downey’s experience as a Black person have played a part in his life experience, bringing various types of trauma, negative peer influences, and mental health challenges.” Downey experienced poverty, the absence of his father in his early years, domestic violence at home and shootings in his neighbourhood. The justice cites the IRCA in her judgment to refer to Downey’s “lasting sense of danger and mistrust,” the lingering mental health effects stemming from previous incarcerations and the stress of being away from his community in Ontario. Holmes specifically cites the IRCA under “Mitigating Circumstances,” writing that the submission demonstrated “early exposure to violence, chronic instability, poverty, systemic anti-Black racism, and untreated mental health symptoms, such as hypervigilance, that may be trauma related.” Other mitigating factors include Downey’s admission that he killed Blimkie and his expression of remorse in a personal statement to the court. The devastating pain to Blimkie’s friends and family, however, still lingers. “The victims have suffered an almost unbearable loss that affects them all profoundly, and, for some, in almost every aspect of their lives,” Holmes wrote. “The family members feel the loss all the more deeply because they had no opportunity to say goodbye to Ms. Blimkie or to give her comfort in her final moments. They also feel betrayed by Mr. Downey who they welcomed into their home.” https://nationalpost.com/news/man-who-murdered-girlfriend-gets-reduced-sentence-partly-due-to-his-race --- Our judges don't have any judgment!

Yes. 750K, look at the article I just posted. Jurisprudence has been achieved in British Columbia.

Former B.C. school trustee ordered to pay $750K for hate speech, discrimination: human rights tribunal The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ordered former Chilliwack school trustee Barry Neufeld to pay $750,000 for violating the Human Rights Code by publishing hate speech and discriminatory content against 2SLGBTQ+ people. "Mr. Neufeld invoked negative and insidious stereotypes about LGBTQ people, especially trans people, which denied their inherent dignity and, in some cases, reflected the hallmarks of hate against them as a group," the tribunal said in a decision Wednesday. Neufeld was one of the "loudest critics" against the B.C. government's move in 2017 directing school boards to update codes of conduct to address bullying based on "SOGI," or sexual orientation and gender identity, according to the tribunal’s decision. "For five years, he publicly denigrated LGBTQ people and teachers and associated them with the worst forms of child abuse," said the tribunal members, adding that the effect was a discriminatory work environment for 2SLGBTQ+ teachers in the district. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/barry-neufeld-former-chilliwack-bc-trustee-pay-hate-speech-tribunal-2slgbtq-9.7098536 [55] We can think of no better example for how transpeople are denied than this passage. Transpeople are, by definition, people “whose gender identity does not align with the sex assigned to them at birth”: Hansman at para. 12. If a person elects not to “believe” that gender identity is separate from sex assigned at birth, then they do not “believe” in transpeople. This is a form of existential denial: Oger (No. 7) at para. 61. It is not, as Mr. Neufeld argues, akin to religious beliefs. A person does not need to believe in Christianity to accept that another person is Christian. However, to accept that a person is transgender, one must accept that their gender identity is different than their sex assigned at birth. [56] As this Tribunal has recognized, “the question of whether transgender people exist and are entitled to dignity in this province is as valuable to ongoing public debate as whether one race is superior to another”: Oger (No. 7) at para. 119. People can and do live beyond the binary. People can and do decide that they were assigned the incorrect gender at birth. Trans people are here, existing in schools and homes and workplaces. As Mr. Hansman characterized it during his testimony, no matter the attempted erasure by some facets of Canadian society, the existence of trans and gender diverse individuals is a fact: “They are there…There are students enrolled in British Columbia public schools who are transgender and non-binary. Likewise, school districts have employees that are transgender and non-binary.” [57] Calling transness “gender ideology” allows anti-trans activists to hide behind a veneer of reasonableness. It allows them to say, as Mr. Neufeld did in his statements as well as at the hearing of this complaint, that they are not attacking human beings. They are simply opposing a set of ideas. But behind this insidious veneer is the proposition that transness is not real. Such phrasing can make it easier to ignore that trans people are human beings. Referring to “gender ideology” or “transgenderism” – “-ism” denoting a belief or ideology such as capitalism or communism – pushes the idea that trans people have an agenda rather than being just another demographic group. As this decision illustrates, such terms can create the conditions for discrimination and hatred to flourish. [58] In the school context, it is worth noting that trans and gender diverse youth are “especially vulnerable to expression that reduces their worth and dignity in the eyes of society and questions their very identity”: Hansman at para. 9. Dr. Saewyc reported that “sexual minority and gender diverse youth are more likely to report nearly every type of violence and discrimination than their heterosexual and cisgender peers in school”: Ex 3, tab B at p. 5. Higher levels of violence, victimization, and discrimination, including for 2SLGBTQ+ kids, “…are strongly linked to harms that include poorer educational outcomes and poorer mental health…”, including higher rates of depression, anxiety or emotional distress, skipping school, substance misuse, and even suicidality: Ex 3, tab B at pp. 5 and 10. These are the harms that SOGI 1 2 3 was designed to address. https://www.bchrt.bc.ca/law-library/decisions/recent/2026-bchrt-49/#4e1 --- We have now come to this. That will be a 750K fine. E-transfer, please.

Elaborate?

I share most of your worries.

It is currently impossible to find the full details of the decision. https://citoyens.soquij.qc.ca/ This is very odd! EDIT: There is a delay between the judgment and its publication, apparently it's normal.

This is the "non-binary person" who wanted a haircut by the way; The name of that "individual" is Alexe Frédéric Migneault. It's a professional activist, who went on a hunger strike because the activist found that "Male" or "Female" on Quebec drivers' licenses was deemed as non inclusive. That "individual", I wont say what I think about "it", because it could lead to me getting sued, is a professional activist, who made hundreds of lawsuits to extort businesses. The power of the LGBT movement is immense in Canada. Common sense is lost.

Why is Canada not progressing as much as it could? The judiciary is in part responsible. This is gross, extortionist and will lead to backlash. Judges have way too much power in Canada. It's time to clean house. ---- Quebec hairdressers and businesses must prepare for new accommodations. On February 5, the Human Rights Tribunal ordered a hair salon to pay $500 in compensation to a non-binary person. The latter complained of having suffered serious harm, because he was forced to choose between a man's cup and a female cup. An expert fears a new crisis of reasonable accommodations. It’s surreal, reacts the co-owner of Station10, Alexis Labrecque, who has three salons in Montreal and Longueuil. We were shocked. We couldn't believe we had to go to court for that, he says, in an interview with Radio-Canada. For his part, Alexe Frédéric Migneault welcomes a symbolic victory that can give weight to the next requests of this kind: There will be a path that has already been traced. The court may want to make history, believes Patrick Taillon, a professor at the Faculty of Law of Université Laval who served on the committee of sages on gender identity trained by the Quebec government. I’m afraid that by trying to hit a big blow, it creates a misunderstanding of how far the reasonable accommodation goes. A quote from Patrick Taillon, Professor, Faculty of Law, Université Laval https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2229942/coiffeur-tribunal-droits-personne-non-binaire

No I'm sure Alberta would overnight turn to socialism and be very ineffective all of a sudden without an ordered Canadian governement known for its efficiency and its results. 😅

You are right. Albertans would look like Haiti if they separated from the rest of Canada. Separatism leads to socialism and famines.

No, no. I'm being genuine of course. I think Alberta survives from subsidies to build pipelines, paid by the feds. The Albertans would be like Haiti if they dared to separate.

It's funny that you describe Albertans as Trailer Parkers while Alberta is probably the richest province by far of Canada. They will buy penthouses and the best real estate. You will remain in your 1 bedroom condo in the meantime. That is probably rented too.

Impossible! They would lose the support from Canada! Any country with no Canadian federal government is a third world country. Who says who has the power? The federal government?

Atlantic Canada has more francophones than Alberta. Many of the past prime ministers have been francophones. You should separate from France. 😜

Yes.

Fixed it for you

Guilt of association is not in play here. Guilt of association would be; let's imprison every protester for associating with X or Y element. Here it is concretely a person charging, running into law enforcement.

There is justification; the protester was alongside a group assaulting police officers. Hence, the officer shot a weapon legally. If you aren't happy about it, there is the Tehran treatment for protesters that seems a bit over the top 10 000km away compared to that.

It's a welcomed pause. It could make the unemployment rate go down from its current 7% at this rate, if immigration could lower even more for a little drop in the number of people living in Canada altogether, it could be a huge win for our purchasing power.

So there is a big debate among the economists. A side wants free trade, and insists that free trade by essence brings wealth to everyone, as countries with strategic advantages may sell goods for less, thus helping consumers with cheaper goods and bringing costs down as well for manufacturers. By getting cheap aluminium from Canada, the US then concentrates its manufacturing industry on transforming it, and brings added value. By contrasts, the other side wants tarriffs imposed to exterior trade partners, to stimulate industries inside their own economy. By adding a tarriff on imports on aluminium coming from Canada, some economists believe that local producers of said aluminiumi in the US will be more competitive, create more local aluminium and create jobs. The US clearly has shown signs that it would take the latter advice. Is it foolish? Is the US going to replace competitors from abroad by having at-home manufacturing, or are they just going to buy their goods for more, while nothing more will be produced inside the US? So far, markets don't like protectionism. The Dow Jones is not growing since the year started, and S&P500 dropped. What are your takes?

This attitude coming from the pseudo-intellectuals of the Democratic side indicate a tendancy to repeat the same errors as before instead of involving into a party designed to protect workers. It's a losing attitude that created a popular vote election win for the Republicans in 2024. A first in 20 years.

Biden presidency being ranked 14th out of all presidencies is a once in a lifetime joke. That's why he was reelected after all... Oh no he wasn't.

I voted for Michael, for his message to everyone here.