Jennifer Koshan

The question is which one is best. Stiff competition in this category. My vote goes to Zadie Smith’s On Beauty.

Thousands rally at Alberta Legislature for public education as teachers' strike looms | CBC News Thousands of people gathered at the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton Sunday morning to rally for public education, as a potentially historic teachers’ strike looms.

I ❤️ AB teachers!

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Better late than never: our 18 pp (!) analysis of #ableg's so-called Mature Asset Strategy (w/ Shaun Fluker and @drewyewchuk.bsky.social). TLDR: the MAS is a thinly disguised attempt to rewrite the origin story of Alberta's O&G closure liability crisis and to push more gov't support & deregulation.

Solidarity from law profs down highway 2. That this reprehensible and dangerous action by U of A was apparently triggered by conservative media is appalling. The “protection” rationale trotted out by U of A (see also: forceful takedown of campus protests) is baseless and must be challenged.

And not only this. Anyone who saw the Premier try to defend the ban on trans health care the other day heard her say “babies” over and over, as if creating more Albertans should be every youth’s life goal and purpose. The Handmaids Tale was not just a banned book, it’s our reality here now. #abpoli

This is the 4th and final post in our series on the Dickson case; this one examines the dissent on ss 25 and 15 of the Charter. While it appears to flow from concerns about gender equality, @roberthamilton.bsky.social, @jwatsonhamilton.bsky.social and I are critical of the dissent's approach.

MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN » CIFF A brave and resilient teacher secretly exposes Putin's aggressive militarization of Russia's primary schools at the start of the invasion of Ukraine.

Saw a great film today, Mr Nobody Against Putin. It was hard not to draw parallels between the propaganda the Russian government is imposing on its schools and the Alberta government's intrusion in school curricula & libraries on sexuality, gender & more. Enough!
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The AB gov’t appealed the injunction against trans health care bans, but is now bypassing its opportunity to argue the reasonableness of *all* its anti-trans laws via the notwithstanding clause. This reveals a lack of confidence in its claim that it is “protecting” trans and gender diverse youth.

So much for the UCP’s argument that their anti-trans surveillance law is all about protecting girls in sports. Young women’s participation in sports has dropped off, no surprise. #ableg

I think we all know why Alberta and Saskatchewan are arguing against changes to the notwithstanding clause: they want to violate the rights of transgender people.👇🏼

Ottawa calls on Supreme Court to clarify the law around use of Charter’s notwithstanding clause — The Globe and Mail Filing propels Ottawa towards a clash with the provinces, including Quebec, Ontario and Alberta, on core Constitutional questions at the top court

Not surprisingly, AB, SK, and ON side with QB in the Bill 21 case. “Alberta is against “any form of substantive judicial review” of governments’ use of the notwithstanding clause” and argued “that “creative arguments” that call for restrictions “should be rejected.” apple.news/AcH5w2n3YSEO...

Legal inequality is driving the gender pay gap. Women earn ~23% less than men, and are more likely to lack paid leave and pensions.

These are legal failures, and they’re changeable.

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Alberta premier directs minister to increase provincial control over immigration | CBC News Premier Danielle Smith is directing her jobs minister to use all legal means possible to give Alberta more control over immigration.

More dog whistling about non-citizens from the Alberta premier. This confirms that the new citizenship marker will have wide reaching effects. #abpoli
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I’ve been assuming that the province will rely on the individuals seeking their license/identity documents (or renewal) to provide proof of citizenship. If this is a yes or no, there would be little interpretation required, no?

Fair point.

I agree with the concerns about misuse for sure. But I’m not so sure about #1. Much as I think Alberta has not offered good reasons to justify a Charter violation, doesn’t it have jurisdiction to add this marker under its licensing powers? I don’t think it purports to decide who’s a citizen. #abpoli

Entire report is utterly damning but p’raps esp the concl that Israel's "widespread and systematic targeting of children is part of a strategy to destroy the biological continuity and future existence of the Palestinian group in Gaza, thus part of the intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza.” [219]

Shades of Nadon, 2014 SCC 21, although coming from a very different angle.

Alberta too, 1000%

Absolutely!

White House doubles down on Trump’s claim about domestic violence ‘Things that take place in the home, they call crime,’ Trump said Monday. ‘They’ll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say, ‘This was a crime scene....

So apparently one can walk to a restaurant safely now in DC, but not to one's own kitchen, but the latter doesn't matter because it's just a made up crime anyway. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

With Nina Simone playing…

Spent the last 3 days at the truly excellent European Conference on Domestic Violence in Barcelona. Our panel compared criminal and other responses to coercive control across England and Wales, Australia, France, and Canada.

You can find our forthcoming paper at: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Alberta premier says new order banning school library books with sexual content coming soon | CBC News The Alberta government hit pause on its order for the removal of books with explicit sexual content from libraries, but the premier says the pause will be short lived.

Danielle Smith does not understand that sexually explicit images are not necessarily pornographic images. The former can have important educational rather than harmful impacts. Where is the justice minister in helping her understand the difference? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #abpoli

Opinion: How Canadian women used unions to shape their lives for the better — The Globe and Mail Hostile work conditions often only changed when some women took on the extraordinary burden of refusing to leave

apple.news/Au_OoDS5VQje.... Great piece. Not mentioned is that unions and women workers have also played a key role in fighting for responses to workplace violence and violence that affects the workplace. ✊

And of course they are figuratively screwed, not literally, as Atwood notes.

When I read @margaretatwood.bsky.social in high school it literally changed my life (and I think even she would agree with this use of literally). John and Mary are screwed unless we keep using our words to fight back. #abpoli

From the FB...

At least one school has resorted to donating books to the public because they simply don't have the resources to catalog all of the books by Smith's deadline.

This is absolutely surreal.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Calgary Public Library knows where it’s at. 🌈

Vicious compliance, malicious compliance, whatever. This book ban is an affront and the incoherence and lack of justification for its underlying premises have been beautifully exposed. On the eve of Calgary Pride, I say you go, Edmonton school board! #abpoli #ableg 🌈