Calvary gets the short kick!
Field goal range! OT coming up?
Last Grey Cup OT - 2005. Mrs P and I were there, at BC Place.
3 bobbles, but a TD!
And Mrs Piper called it: Ottawa by 6!
That has to be one of the most exciting Grey Cups ever. Not as good as '89, of course, ( 
), but still a great game!
Just like last week, I could have taken less excitement, but what a game. I watched nearly every Renegades game ever played. This feels real good.
Awesome game, eh? Some things from the crowd:
- Justin Trudeau came on the video board, and the entire endzone section where I was started booing him
- The hadn’t arranged the speakers so the temporary seats in the endzone could hear anything, so we couldn’t here the anthem being sung. Someone yelled out “I guess we’ll have to sing it ourselves” and we all started singing O Canada at the top of our lungs
- There was almost a fight just before the last touchdown Calgary scored. I nearly missed the play!
I hope you all switched over to the Denver-Kansas City game when it was over.
Busy day so far - three media requests before I even got to the office
Why? I find four/down boring and rarely watch it. Football is over in the Piper household until June.
Sorry if I missed something - do you work with the Redblacks?
Nope - sorry - Canadian Armed Forces - Public Affairs/Media relations type job
Well, no apologies needed, of course, I was just trying to follow along! Again my apologies if this is obvious - but I have had a busy day and haven’t checked the news. Was there some event with the armed forces that I should be aware of?
~1000 military personnel reported being sexual assaulted in 2016.
The majority of cases (~850) fell into the “unwanted sexual touching” category.
Even if it’s “just” unwanted sexual touching, it’s still sexual assault.
If a cop gives you a ticket and you “just” tear it up and throw it at him, it’s still “assaulting a police officer”. So what word is in your vocabulary for hitting him over the head with a baseball bat, now that “assault” has been wasted on the harmlessly trivial?
I suggest you walk past the next man, grab his crotch and engage is a discussion around the relative merits of differentiating assault.
“Assault” hasn’t been wasted trivially. The classic definition of assault in Canadian law has been: “The intentional application of force, however slight, to another person, without their consent.” Whether the police will proceed with very slight assaults is a matter of discretion: de minimus non curat lex. The offence of assault protects the personal dignity and autonomy of the individual, not just from major assaults.
As for the examples you give, there is more than one level of assault. Your examples could be “assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm” (s. 267 Criminal Code) or “aggravated assault” (s. 268 Criminal Code).