unqualifying immunity
those who purport to serve we the people must be accountable to we the people
if you wanted to change just one simple thing that would shift a great deal of power from leviathan to we the people, one could do a lot worse than eliminating the idea of “qualified immunity” a doctrine by which agents of the state acting in their official capacities as such cannot be held individually to account if they were in the “normal course” of duty “just doing their jobs.”
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/unqualifying-immunity
Ottawa Funded the China Ferry Deal—Then Pretended to Oppose It
While Beijing-backed hackers infiltrated Canadian telecoms, federal and B.C. leaders quietly financed a billion-dollar shipbuilding deal with a Chinese state firm—then tried to pass the buck.
https://theoppositionnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/ottawa-funded-the-china-ferry-dealthen
Some of these things I still miss
I grew up without safe spaces.
I grew up without trigger warnings.
I drank water from the hose.
I ate peanuts in class.
None of us wore a helmet.
Kids got hurt. We fell down. And we signed a lot of casts.
We couldn’t pause TV. We’d call out “It’s on!” as soon as the commercials started to end (for those who had left the room). And we watched our favourite shows as a family.
There was no next day delivery.
There was no bundle this with that.
There was no internet. Skip the Dishes didn’t exist.
Fast food was not the norm. It was easier to eat healthy. There were home phones. There was VH.........
