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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 15h

There's at least 5 premiers in Canada whose heads would implode when presented with this idea ...

ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 17h

So, in short, he knows he's been compromised and is admitting it.

ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 17h

There's a now disbarred lawyer in BC that would be happy to help out, I'm sure ... /snark

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 1d

This is a problem?

ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 1d

Can someone explain exactly what ”problem” Ms. Garner thinks she is trying to solve? Because I’m not seeing “The Problem” here.

#cdnpoli

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Conservatives want to end birthright citizenship for children of temporary residents

The Conservatives want to restrict birthright citizenship in Canada, a measure they say would mirror the rules in peer countries.

www.ctvnews.ca

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 1d

That is a likely outcome with the way these laws are being written.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

A man gets a blowjob from a trans woman and his friends make fun of him so he goes to the police to claim she lied about being a woman. She was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to nearly 2 years in prison because of a man's shame.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thornaby transgender woman jailed for deception sex assault

Ciara Watkin's victim says he would not have agreed to sex had he known she was biologically male.

www.bbc.com

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 1d

In 2004, one of my first blog posts talked about a rising dark age; in 2012, I wrote on how conservatism was heading towards fascism under Harper; in 2025, it’s damned clear that fascism is here and it’s very very real.

Project 2025 is the manual for Trump, Smith, Poilievre, and others like them.

ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 2d

Danielle Smith giving interviews to The Rebel ... that tracks.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 2d

Prediction: Alberta will shove through back to work legislation shortly after the legislature resumes sitting on October 23.

Second prediction: It will declare that it is invoking S33

Third prediction: the back to work legislation will impose a "settlement".

#abpoli #ableg

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 2d

Alberta - and its government especially are exceptionally dense on these matters.

ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 2d

Oh - look at that ... so just over a week before the legislature resumes sitting -> so the government can claim "oh we negotiated, and the teachers were soooo unreasonable" ... as they ram through back-to-work legislation.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 2d

It's important to realize that "review" here has to go way deeper than if it was a human creation ... and that's a problem.

Humans tend to "skim" when reviewing, and it would be very easy to overlook an important factual error. Professionals using AI need to change their thinking around review.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 3d

Oh - the Justice Minister just told the provinces to go pound sand:

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

#cdnpoli #abpoli #onpoli

Justice minister rules out withdrawing legal submission on notwithstanding clause | CBC News

Justice Minister Sean Fraser rejected calls from five premiers for Ottawa to withdraw its legal argument calling for limits on the use of the Constitution's notwithstanding clause.

www.cbc.ca

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 3d

Yes - it was definitely different (not absent, just different)

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 3d

To be fair, most Canadians are only peripherally aware of the Jim Crow era ... I wouldn't have made that connection.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 3d

Wow - talk about a straw man argument from top to bottom.

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Pat @pat112.bsky.social · 3d

If the Premiers were so certain of their position they would welcome Court , vs being petulant children saying if I can't win I'm taking my ball and leaving

#Cdnpoli

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 3d

Very …

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 3d

While I am no lawyer, much less one skilled enough to make constitutional arguments before the Supreme Court, I think the danger that an unbounded S33 represents warrants constraints. Otherwise provincial legislatures can essentially shred The Charter at whim.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve spent some time writing in depth about the various filings on S33 here:

crystalgaze2.blogspot.com/2025/09/deep...

crystalgaze2.blogspot.com/2025/10/of-p...

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 3d

I see the premiers are reaching the “Find Out” phase after all their fuckery around using S33 to attack your Charter Rights.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

#cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg #onpoli

5 premiers urge Carney to withdraw court submission on notwithstanding clause | CBC News

Five premiers say Ottawa must withdraw its recent call for limits on the notwithstanding clause because it amounts to a "complete disavowal" of the bargain that spawned the Charter of Rights and Freed...

www.cbc.ca

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 4d

I think there's a good number of Albertans who would love to ... unfortunately, those same Albertans understand the importance of the rule of law.

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 4d

Eby - BC is leading 🇨🇦 with major opportunities to deliver prosperity to all of Canada.
We have billions worth of private sector & First Nations led projects, that are ready to go and will create thousands of jobs.
Alberta’s fictional bitumen pipeline achieves none of these things. #cdnpoli

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 4d

The irony that on one hand Moe and Smith are demanding greater autonomy and "freedom" from "overreach", but on the other hand demanding that other provinces simply accede to their overreach is stunning. The lack of self awareness is mind-boggling.

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