Re:Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know
by rfrey on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @10:25AM
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I've met a number of people (all American, so I infer it's due to some American news sources) that believe Canadians are arrested on a regular basis for flimsy and arbitrary claims of hate speech, and those arrests are political. The same people tend to believe we wait six months and probably die before getting cancer treatment because of our socialized medical system.
So chalk it up to Canada being used in the partisan ratings war that seems to dominate news nowadays.
Re:Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know
by prolikewh0a on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @01:00PM
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It's definitely our media not on the side of citizens. How many lies do your hear about your health care system?
Re:Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know
by rfrey on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @01:25PM
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I don’t know, maybe lots? What I hear from my chosen news sources matches my experience (or feeds my confirmation bias), so I don’t recognize it as lies.
Re:Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know
by moate on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @01:04PM
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You can chalk it up to Jordan Peterson and his fanboys insisting that white men are the most oppressed group in this upside down new world we live in. That segment really likes to paint Canada as the thought-police boogie man.
Re:Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know
by Reedx on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:13PM
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Er, engaging in the oppression olympics is the opposite of what he does.
His argument is that people should be judged as individuals, not by what group they randomly happen to be part of.
Peterson advocates for free speech and MLK's dream: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
Re:Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know
by flamtap on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @02:49PM
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Jordan Peterson absolutely and completely does not "insist", insinuate, or suggest that "white men are the most oppressed group". I am a really big fan of Dr. Peterson's work and I have never heard him say or publish anything remotely resembling such a statement. In fact, he is completely opposed to identity politics on the whole.
Some misguided white men might think that they are "the most oppressed group", but they are just that: misguided.
Re:Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know
by dleslie on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @11:57AM
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Like all charter rights, it is weighed in balance with the others and so can be limited.
So, IE, Blasphemous Libel is a thing in Canada.
Re:Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know
by en4bz on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @12:17PM
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Canadian Human Rights Tribunals often produce concerning rulings regarding free speech [1]. I found this case to be particularly concerning even if the "jokes" in question were distasteful. Reminds me of the "Nazi Pug" in the UK [2] which was equally alarming.
[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mike-ward-comedian-h...
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2018/04...
What's your source on this? Free speech is enshrined as a "fundamental freedom" in the Charter. There are reasonable limits as well, to ensure that things like hate speech are deemed illegal.