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Canada’s judges have become “completely divorced from reality” in the reasoning they use to bat down mandatory minimum sentences for serious crimes, says Christine Van Geyn (@cvangeyn), interim executive director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation (@CDNConstFound).
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For 300 years, corsairs came to enslave Europeans.
Not from a colony. From Europe's own coasts.🏴☠️
Spain, Italy, France, even Ireland and Iceland felt their reach.
One historian's estimate puts the number enslaved above a million across the centuries.
That figure is
“If the ‘Ugly American’ is a cautionary tale about arrogance born of power, the sanctimonious middle power is a cautionary tale about arrogance born of insecurity. Both suffer from a deficit of cognitive empathy. Both would benefit from looking in the mirror. A durable order
Whistleblowers in the NHS and at gender clinics have been trying to raise the alarm for a decade. There is no excuse for continuing to pretend that extremely vulnerable children haven't been irreparably harmed.
“In terms of defence spending, Canada has been seen as a laggard. There’s questions about our 2% and how we’ve reached that threshold and whether we have reached that threshold, and this was a good announcement, I suspect for the prime minister to drop on his way to NATO to
The first statue ever raised in St Paul's Cathedral is not a king, a general or a saint.👑🚫⛪️
It is a quiet Bedfordshire squire who asked one question nobody wanted asked. 🇬🇧
In Georgian England you could be found not guilty and stay in gaol. 🏴
The gaoler drew no wage, he
