D. Jared Brown
@LitigationGuy
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Litigation counsel in Toronto. Advisory, Governance. Contributor Canadian Lawyer, Lawyers Daily/Law360, Law Times.
Toronto
Joined March 2011
Pronoun case hits the US Court of Appeals. Some discussion of compelled speech and 1st amendment principles.
Sixth Circuit (en banc) rules that schools may not compel students to use preferred pronouns. The court notes that compelling pronouns “skews the debate” over trans issues. @DefendingEd brought the case.
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The progressive managerial state is not the free state for which great numbers of our countrymen took up arms to fight to defend.
'What we fought for was our freedom, even now [the country] is worse than it was when I fought for it,' says 100-year-old World War II Veteran Alec Penstone.
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It doesn't matter how many tax dollars are pumped into it, waiting around for government to build houses is a fools errand.
Today's Ontario Fall Economic Statement now forecasts fewer than 65,000 housing starts this year, which would be the fewest number of starts since 2014.
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The hits keep coming for social psychology and they are fatal.
The fall of "When prophecies fail": Another social psychology classic turns out to be based on fabrications and lies. In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. In “When Prophecy Fails “ (1956), the
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This is a description of BBC but the same could easily be said about the CBC which has devolved far past state sponsored news.
Every. word. of. this… “The awful truth about the BBC is now too monstrous to hide. Britain is a decaying, dysfunctional society, and the BBC is complicit in our decline. Our national broadcaster is not merely dishonest, biased and prone to cover-ups, as a Telegraph
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By referring to generational and bankrupting debt as somehow being investment it helps to hide what they are actually talking about is more Stellantis, Lion Electric Buses, and Green slush funds. Dark budget.
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Education and Justice systems in Canada are so far gone, not sure they'll come back.
“In Ontario, Grade 11 students in the biggest boards will no longer study classics in English class — this has been replaced with a full year of Indigenous literature”
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I'm officially an accelerationist on dumb court decisions, as I'm increasingly of the opinion this doesn't end without an ugly showdown. Bring it on. Free the child pornographers. End private land ownership. Find a charter right to ban motor vehicles.
nationalpost.com
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Coyne hot take on the SCC pedo decision should be best of genre.
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Deindustrialization decreases standard of living and increases poverty and suffering but when you call it a green shift it sells better.
Canada’s economy tanked after Ottawa’s green pivot: Fraser Institute After a decade and $158 billion in subsidies, Canada’s “green” economy makes up barely 3.6 % of GDP, added only 68,000 jobs, and left Canadians 2 % poorer per capita By @SheilaGunnReid:
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The indigenous litigation racket in Canada is proceeding exactly as you might expect. “Ms. Corbiere did not advise the meeting that she was acting in a conflict of interest in purporting to advise the fund, the trustees, and the chiefs about her and her team’s own fees.”
ctvnews.ca
An Ontario court judge has ruled a $510 million legal fee for lawyers who worked on a First Nations treaty rights case was unreasonable — and has ordered the fee scaled back to $23 million.
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Notwithstanding clause debate. And the Supreme Court of Canada has entered the chat...
And a 5-to-4 majority of the Supreme Court of Canada has now ruled that a one-year minimum sentence for the offence of possession of child pornography is unconstitutional….
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What an incredible clusterfuck in BC. A decade ago, homeowners who may now lose their houses weren’t notified about it because (1) the courts worried that property owners would try to make their voices heard and “swamp” the proceedings, (2) the province worried about legal
Why weren't we told sooner about the implications of Aboriginal title? The answer should concern everyone https://t.co/J7nfbOLyws
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That these court actions are defacto unopposed by the federal government and welcomed by receptive courts makes a $510M lawyers' fee seem disproportionate.
Judge says $510M in fees for lawyers in treaty case was unreasonable. Justice Fred Myers ordered fee scaled back to $23 million, wrote 'retainer is not a lottery ticket'. https://t.co/ozdEdfOjGC
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In all of this, did anybody predict that Vancouver and BC's land value boom would come to an end by governments hellbent on reconciliation by expropriation and dekulakization.
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From @PardyBruce: “It is finally dawning on British Columbians that obsequious devotion to reconciliation is putting their land at risk. Sharma claimed that B.C. was pursuing multiple grounds of appeal, but that makes her a hypocrite. Her government did not robustly defend in
Bruce Pardy: Eby bringing B.C. to its kneeswith Aboriginal land deals
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In a time where government intervention and control of economies has taken over otherwise free market capitalist countries, it is refreshing to see the counter-example.
After the Trump-Bessent currency swap with Argentina, the peso is rallying. Big win. https://t.co/waNwe43iZS
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I would really like to hear from the people who actually bet on this.
BREAKING: Bill Gates admits climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise.”
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Here is a photo of Vlad Guerrero Jr from when this game started.
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