Recent content by lenaitch

Partially. Justices of the Superior and Appellate courts are federally appointed (I believe the province pays them) but, as pointed out, the majority of the load on the justice system is at the lower levels which are provincially appointed, which also funds the infrastructure, support staff, etc.

I guess she doesn't mind alienating the roughly 53 million Catholics in the US. Trump says he want to make the US more religious. Maybe just not that religion. Maybe he can get Vance to declare, like Greenland, that the Vatican has run the Church very poorly and demand a US Cardinal be...

There is some confusion on whether this was ICE or CBP, but events on a domestic Amtrak train: https://www.havredailynews.com/story/2025/04/17/local/border-patrol-agents-question-amtrak-passengers-in-havre-about-citizenship/547792.html Desensitization; on the path to normalization. First they...

Well, so far it seems to be working for them.

I tend to agree. Some of the proposal that have been floated over the years remind me of multi-stage, multi-day processes of other countries, or akin to casting my vote only with my left hand by the light of the moon (aka - convoluted). I'm not so sure about the second part. Turning...

How to use technology to make an impression on uncontacted isolated tribes:

They currently have no powers of enforcement. The office reports to Parliament. Period. Much depends one what people mean by 'enforcement'. Perhaps something more akin to the US Government Accountability Office; although I say that not knowing much about how it operates.

But where would you get your hockey news? 😁

I think it is natural that the government (NASA) did the initial heavy lifting. Industry is not going to do applied science without a motive for financial return. Those initial launches were real 'missions'; months of preparation, calculations done with slide rulers, onboard computing power...

Hate the town - not the team. Surely whatever mortal sin they committed in the past has be atoned in the intervening almost 60 years. I'm a Toronto fan but that makes me more loyal than smart.

Part of that boils down to expecting the justice system to solve social ills. As was raised upthread, solving infrastructure and capacity problems in the court system would go a long way to making it more responsive. About 70% of the Ontario correctional system population is on remand - not...

I realize lowest common denominator shouldn't be the goal, but I think Russia drove through that window a few years ago.

I suspect that the Court would view turning 'may' into 'shall' as cruel and unusual, just by different means. Generally speaking, the Court has taken the view that arbitrary and mandatory sentencing provisions, in and of themselves, removes or limits the a sentencing court from making a...