The Canadope Café, 2014 Edition: In 3-D!

[Dr_Doom]

Gorgeous and sunny here in central Ontario.

Supposed to get daytime highs in the +s all week!

[Northern_Piper]

@Leaffan

It’s a glorious, sunny +5 here. It’s wonderful. I feel like dancing naked in my back yard tonight. I just might.

You might want to alert the neighbours. They might think that poor Leaffan has flipped out from cabin fever and call the cops…

[Sunspace]

@Northern_Piper

How Canada Became Home to Some of the World’s More Visually Stunning - and Fun - Heraldry

Can’t quote from it, because I’ve used up my quota of free National Post articles for the month, but it’s an interesting read.

That’s cool.

[Spoons]

@Cat_Whisperer

It was supposed to be above zero here finally today - the high is looking like -8. Bah. Bah, I say!

Woke up to yet more snow this morning. However, it looks like we’ll get up to 0C by the end of the day.

[Leaffan]

Plus 9 now guys. PLUS 9! Weeeeee!!!

[Cyros]

Started the day with freezing rain, moved on to ice pellets and expecting 10-20cm of snow overnight.

I hate Leaffan.

[swampspruce]

-20 fucking 4 this morning. I’m moving to Victoria. At least tsunamis and sliding into the ocean when Vancouver Island subducts under the N.American plate will be warm…

Leaffan sucks.

[mnemosyne]

8C out, apparently. I haven’t gone outside. I’m doing laundry because I assume that sooner or later I should pack a hospital bag (39w1d… I might have a baby one day). My car is actually kind of snowed in, and I have nowhere to go anyways. I have an ultrasound tomorrow, so I have that to look forward to. Baby’s position is bizarre, so they want to confirm he’s head down, and he might be on the small side since I haven’t gained weight in weeks (yay?). He moves incessantly and heartbeat is good, so the concern level is rather low.

Tonight, I will go vote at the advance polls, since the election is the day after my due date (in a riding 100% guaranteed to go Liberal, so my vote is more about making myself feel like I’m doing my civic duty, rather than actually contributing to anything). I hate politics in this province and hate all the options. They are all scummy, lying, corrupt assholes. I always felt that if you WANTED to be a politician, you shouldn’t be allowed to be one.

[Cat_Whisperer]

@swampspruce

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Leaffan sucks.

Seconded. (Thirded?)

[Northern_Piper]

@Leaffan

Plus 9 now guys. PLUS 9! Weeeeee!!!

And so the evening nude madness begins!

[Leaffan]

@Northern_Piper

And so the evening nude madness begins!

Temporarily on hold. The snow’s unfortunately still deep enough the the boys would be submersed, or at least dragging along the top.

[Cyros]

After noticing that I’ve done nothing but bitch about the weather in this thread I thought I’d bitch about something else before this storm knocks out my power, Quebec. My Quebec friends have been posting a stream of these stories about anglo and allo-phone students having difficulties registering to vote. It makes me sad that this crap is happening in Canada.

[Cat_Whisperer]

@Cat_Whisperer

Seconded. (Thirded?)

I should say, I don’t hate Leaffan in particular; I just hate everyone in the world who has nice weather right now.

@Northern_Piper

And so the evening nude madness begins!

Mmm, evening nude madness.

@Leaffan

Temporarily on hold. The snow’s unfortunately still deep enough the the boys would be submersed, or at least dragging along the top.

That’s…quite the graphic picture you’re painting there.

[Northern_Piper]

Hey, if Finns can roll around in the snow after a sauna, why can’t Leaffan take the boys out for a nice snow-skim?

[Malthus]

This will be of particular interest to our Canuck law-talkers.

The Law Society of Upper Canada has requested submissions in connection with its consideration of the application of Trinity Western University (“TWU”) for accreditation of its proposed law school. TWU is a private Christian faith-based university in British Columbia and intends to offer a law school program commencing in September 2015. In December 2013, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada determined that the proposed law program met the national requirement, which establishes the knowledge and skills that all applicants for entry to the bar admission programs of the law societies in the Canadian common law jurisdictions must possess. Now it falls to each provincial law society to decide whether to accredit TWU’s proposed law school and licence its graduates to practice law. Attendance at an accredited law school is a prerequisite to licensure to practice law in Ontario.

The issue of concern to the Law Society is the “Community Covenant Agreement” (the “Covenant”) which all TWU students, faculty and staff are required to sign. It requires adherence to a code of conduct which, among other things, requires abstention from “sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman”. The Covenant discriminates against members of the LGBTQ community, unmarried persons and members of certain religious groups. If accreditation were granted, the effect of the Covenant would be to exclude such persons from a portion of the limited number of places available at accredited law schools for those persons who wish to qualify to practice law in Ontario.

The Advocates’ Society established a task force to consider whether TAS should make a submission to the Law Society and, if so, what that submission ought to be. The recommendation of the task force, approved by TAS’ Board of Directors, is that TAS ask that the Law Society not approve the application for accreditation by TWU. Amongst other things, TAS’ submission notes that:

(1) the legislation governing the Law Society requires that in carrying out its duties, the Law Society "advance the cause of justice and the rule of law" and "protect the public interest" and

(2) the Law Society's Rules of Professional Conduct require members to "respect the dignity and worth of all persons and treat all persons equally without discrimination".

As TWU’s proposed law school discriminates in the granting of admission on prohibited grounds, by virtue of the Covenant, TAS believes it would be inappropriate for the Law Society to grant TWU’s application for accreditation.

The full submission of The Advocates’ Society to the Law Society is available by clicking here.

[Cat_Whisperer]

A morality clause to become a law student at Trinity Western University? That doesn’t sound very 21st century.

On a completely unrelated note, what do you guys think of Justin Trudeau dropping the F-bomb at a charity event recently? My feeling is, meh, people swear, but I also question his judgement. If he plans to represent Canada on the international stage, I’d like to be sure that he’s not going to be an embarrassment.

[Muffin]

Thanks for the heads up.

[Muffin]

Managed to get locked in on the holding cell floor on a tour after work in the basement of the courthouse that is set to open next week. Nice to know that it actually is secure, but would have preferred not to have found out that way.

[Leaffan]

@Cat_Whisperer

A morality clause to become a law student at Trinity Western University? That doesn’t sound very 21st century.

On a completely unrelated note, what do you guys think of Justin Trudeau dropping the F-bomb at a charity event recently? My feeling is, meh, people swear, but I also question his judgement. If he plans to represent Canada on the international stage, I’d like to be sure that he’s not going to be an embarrassment.

Yeah, that’s pretty much how I feel.

[Uzi]

@Cat_Whisperer

If he plans to represent Canada on the international stage, I’d like to be sure that he’s not going to be an embarrassment.

I think it is pretty clear what he is going to be. I don’t know what you are unsure of at this point?