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kinda feel bad for Jeff Sessions - dude was an early Trump supporter and Trump has ripped the dude in public pretty hard these last few days.

 

Some theorize it a strategy to distance Trump from AG, so that actions of the AG appear to be independent.

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Notorious Mississauga blogger known for anti-Muslim rants faces hate-crime charge

 

Kevin J. Johnston, a 45-year-old resident of Mississauga, Ont., faces charges related to his controversial, anti-Muslim postings on his own website as well as social media.

 

A self-described “journalist & social commentator” known for posting angry video rants attacking Muslims and a range of other targets has been charged with committing a hate crime.

 

On Monday, Peel Regional Police announced Johnston had been charged with one count of wilful promotion of hatred, a Criminal Code offence with a maximum penalty of two years in jail. The announcement said the charge “stems from a lengthy investigation into numerous incidents reported to police … and concerns information published on various social media sites.”

 

http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/notorious-mississauga-blogger-known-for-anti-muslim-rants-faces-hate-crime-charge/wcm/97cad7a7-862e-4e8e-a486-49886d071a46

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Notorious Mississauga blogger known for anti-Muslim rants faces hate-crime chargeKevin J. Johnston, a 45-year-old resident of Mississauga, Ont., faces charges related to his controversial, anti-Muslim postings on his own website as well as social media.A self-described “journalist & social commentator” known for posting angry video rants attacking Muslims and a range of other targets has been charged with committing a hate crime.On Monday, Peel Regional Police announced Johnston had been charged with one count of wilful promotion of hatred, a Criminal Code offence with a maximum penalty of two years in jail. The announcement said the charge “stems from a lengthy investigation into numerous incidents reported to police … and concerns information published on various social media sites.”http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/notorious-mississauga-blogger-known-for-anti-muslim-rants-faces-hate-crime-charge/wcm/97cad7a7-862e-4e8e-a486-49886d071a46

No freedom of speech in canuckland?

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No freedom of speech in canuckland?

pfffttt - free speech is outdated! get with the times, man! "progressive" is where ya wanna be!

 

In historic 1st, transgender inmate wins transfer to women's prison

Fallon Aubee says she has endured taunts, threats and physical abuse in penitentiary for men

 

Canada's federal prison service has approved the first transfer of a transgender inmate to an institution based on gender identity rather than physical anatomy, CBC News has learned.

 

Fallon Aubee, who has been serving a life sentence at B.C.'s Mission Institution, told CBC her request to move to a women's prison has been approved, and that she will be transferred to Fraser Valley Institution for Women on Tuesday.

 

Aubee called it a "profound decision," but said the journey to this day has been an emotional roller-coaster.

 

She says the move will allow her to focus more on her future and less on the problems of living as a woman in a men's institution. But she concedes the path ahead will bring its own challenges.

 

"I think it's going to be a huge adjustment going to the prison for women, not just for me but for the women who are there as well because I am pre-op so there's a stigma that's attached to 'there's a guy living here,'" she said in a telephone interview with CBC News. "I want to be able to defuse that with my character, my attitude, my generosity, so they say, 'Wait a minute, she's just one of the girls.'"

 

A new accommodation policy was prompted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier this year.

 

Canada's prison service abruptly reversed course and adopted an interim policy for transgender inmates in January, just one day after Trudeau promised to promote equality for all transgender Canadians, including those behind bars.

 

Aubee was convicted of first-degree murder in 2003 in a street-gang contract killing case.

 

When first in brought into custody at the federal prison in Prince Albert, Sask., Aubee said she was held in segregation for six months after advising officials she was transgender, in conditions that made her feel like a "junkyard dog."

 

Since then, it has been an uphill battle for single-cell privacy and other basics like women's clothing and toiletries.

 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fallon-aubee-transgender-inmate-1.4215594

 

God love xer! xhe is a civil rights pioneer!

 

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One of the Awan brothers arrested at Dulles airport trying to flee the country. 

 

 

If you don't know who the Awan brother are, google it.

 

I keep hearing rumblings of big things happening on 7/27.. hoping it's not conspiracy.. but we'll see. 

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Governor Brown Signs Landmark Climate Bill to Extend California's Cap-and-Trade Program

 

SAN FRANCISCO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today signed AB 398 by Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella), which extends and improves the state’s world-leading cap-and-trade program to ensure California continues to meet its ambitious climate change goals.

“As the Trump Administration seeks to undermine our nation’s climate leadership – the world is looking to California. We are proving that growing an economy and protecting the environment is not an either-or proposition; we can and will continue to do both. Today’s extension of our landmark cap-and-trade program, coupled with our effective clean energy policies, will move us forward into the future and we plan to take the rest of the world with us,” said Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León.

 

This legislation extends the program by 10 years until 2030 in the most cost-effective way possible, and makes the following improvements based on years of operation, analysis and input:

 

•Ensures that carbon pollution will decrease as the program’s emissions cap declines.

•Cuts the use of out-of-state carbon offsets and brings those environmental benefits back to California.

•Designates the California Air Resources Board as the statewide regulatory body responsible for ensuring that California meets its statewide carbon pollution reduction targets, while retaining local air districts' responsibility and authority to curb toxic air contaminants and criteria pollutants from local sources that severely impact public health.

•Decreases free carbon allowances over 40 percent by 2030.

•Prioritizes cap-and-trade spending to ensure funds go where they are needed most, including reducing diesel emissions in the most impacted communities.

 

http://cert1.mail-west.com/yjfE/msR/c7r/Rgtmyuzjanm/j151s/sRcn2q8jeggl0/ul151sRqvnq/240ygbx9j/anum?_c=d|ze7pzanwmhlzgt|151yhw9kotl042n&_ce=1501013839.55df98454bd71f1fdbcc33e9f23e56c1

 

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Governor Brown Signs Landmark Climate Bill to Extend California's Cap-and-Trade ProgramSAN FRANCISCO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today signed AB 398 by Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella), which extends and improves the state’s world-leading cap-and-trade program to ensure California continues to meet its ambitious climate change goals.“As the Trump Administration seeks to undermine our nation’s climate leadership – the world is looking to California. We are proving that growing an economy and protecting the environment is not an either-or proposition; we can and will continue to do both. Today’s extension of our landmark cap-and-trade program, coupled with our effective clean energy policies, will move us forward into the future and we plan to take the rest of the world with us,” said Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León.This legislation extends the program by 10 years until 2030 in the most cost-effective way possible, and makes the following improvements based on years of operation, analysis and input:•Ensures that carbon pollution will decrease as the program’s emissions cap declines.•Cuts the use of out-of-state carbon offsets and brings those environmental benefits back to California.•Designates the California Air Resources Board as the statewide regulatory body responsible for ensuring that California meets its statewide carbon pollution reduction targets, while retaining local air districts' responsibility and authority to curb toxic air contaminants and criteria pollutants from local sources that severely impact public health.•Decreases free carbon allowances over 40 percent by 2030.•Prioritizes cap-and-trade spending to ensure funds go where they are needed most, including reducing diesel emissions in the most impacted communities.http://cert1.mail-west.com/yjfE/msR/c7r/Rgtmyuzjanm/j151s/sRcn2q8jeggl0/ul151sRqvnq/240ygbx9j/anum?_c=d|ze7pzanwmhlzgt|151yhw9kotl042n&_ce=1501013839.55df98454bd71f1fdbcc33e9f23e56c1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otAvQ2N3NLc

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The stupid state.

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No freedom of speech in canuckland?

 

Don't be a troll. There are a many in the US sitting in court or jail for promoting hate crimes. Probably more than Canada.

 

Look at our General Discussion (talk about anything)  Only a half wit would argue that they could discuss anything there.  

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Don't be a troll. There are a many in the US sitting in court or jail for promoting hate crimes. Probably more than Canada.

 

Look at our General Discussion (talk about anything) Only a half wit would argue that they could discuss anything there.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/06/19/supreme-court-unanimously-reaffirms-there-is-no-hate-speech-exception-to-the-first-amendment/

 

 

From today’s opinion by Justice Samuel Alito (for four justices) in Matal v. Tam, the “Slants” case:

 

[The idea that the government may restrict] speech expressing ideas that offend … strikes at the heart of the First Amendment. Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express “the thought that we hate.”

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