Important #CFEblog post by Richard Moon - Is an encampment protected expression? cfe.torontomu.ca/blog/2024/05/e…

I am an alumnus of University of Alberta.

Police beating students on the quad is unacceptable by any measure.

The solution to violence in Gaza in no way includes violence against students in Canada.

Bill Flanagan resign please.

People are claiming that sending police after University of Alberta students is okay because the University grounds are private property and the students were thus trespassing.

As a law professor, let me state that this is a gross mischaracterization of the law.

This is a remarkable image. The #wildfire has rapidly expanded is now 16 km from Fort Mac and closing. The grey-brown you see looks like deciduous vegetation that has not yet greened, it is that early in the year.

#climatechange

Non-surgeon removed gall bladders at hospital bbc.in/3wyIBYD

Please subscribe if you are an ecology geek, student, teacher, or anyone interested in exploring nature. His short videos will help you understand the concept of ecology in an amazing way. I also hope that more people, especially ecologists, will be inspired to create like his.

This can save lives.

How can you reasonably argue power imbalance makes asking patient on a date inappropriate - and arguably non-consensual - but suggesting patient die is just friendly advice among pals.

“[W]hich results in a graver injustice: denying state-provided death to disabled Canadians who are suffering but not at the end of life, or facilitating state-provided death for someone whose suffering could have been alleviated?” Isabel Grant (@AllardLaw)

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Until people understand the difference between 'I don't like that' and 'that should be illegal', we will be headed for some dark times.

What triggers protests in authoritarian and hybrid regimes? Interesting new working paper from NiranjanJN 🍉 drawing on case studies of protests from the A4EA Research programme (now ended).

'Because MAiD is portrayed as beneficent for people with disabilities not at the end of life, and because we trust doctors implicitly, we fail to recognize the fallibility of the systems in place to ensure wrongful deaths do not happen.'

Delighted to finally have this article published on why track 2 MAiD is fundamentally discriminatory against people with disabilities and contrary to section 7 and 15 of the Charter. <mjlh.mcgill.ca/publications/v…>

This is why I wrote NOMAD CENTURY. It’s time for honesty and pragmatism, and a book of solutions theguardian.com/environment/ar…

'Euthanasia in Canada is becoming a solution to the problems of a failed social care and medical care system'

Actress and disability rights campaigner Liz Carr has been a vocal opponent of assisted dying for more than a decade and spoke to #BBCBreakfast about a documentary she…

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Thank you The Times and The Sunday Times for publishing my letter below. Assisted dying is not a progressive cause!

Liz Carr documentary on assisted dying
BBC1
Tuesday, May 14th
9pm
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-689510…

Assisted dying debate terrifying for disabled people, says actress Liz Carr bbc.in/4bsryq4

Another week, another paper 🤓
This one led by Iago Otero where we unpack the need for #degrowth scenarios for #equity in #biodiversity #futures & show how the #NatureFuturesFramework #NFF of ipbes TF can help. We propose methods for research to policy🧐
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Our new paper on MAID in forensic settings, another level of complexity. Humanists Against Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Kevin Yuill Trudo Lemmens Assisted death for prisoners and forensic patients: complexity and controversy illustrated by four recent cases | BJPsych Bulletin- bit.ly/3JNw8TN