I'm seeing some crazy stuff tonight on the social.
At least Canadians are enjoying this:As an electrician, i'd like to remind Pierre Poilievre that we don't capture lighting from the sky. We work together with other trades, engineers etc to produce electricity which was made possible by left wing indoctrination education (aka the same science that produced vaccines) https://t.co/6vBFvnPzKS
— Patrick Gagnon (@patgagnon_75) January 3, 2024
Texted my brother, who is an electrician. pic.twitter.com/o6TpdPi2mZ
— Dale Smith (@journo_dale) January 4, 2024
Here's some more crazy stuff :My husband put on his Thor costume (don't ask, what happens in the bedroom, stays in the bedroom) & he's on the roof with his hammer waiting for the next storm so we can harvest some free electricity.
— Kassie Dee π¨π¦π¨πΏ✡️π΅πΈπΊπ¦π️ (@Kassie__Dee) January 3, 2024
I'm inside batter dipping my husband's corndogs.
Because we're EXTRA ordinary! https://t.co/8CzyHWXVsO
...the big story domestically remains that Saskatchewan is planning to move ahead with their plans to stop collecting the carbon levy on heat, and hoping that they won’t suffer any repercussions for it. This includes trying to put forward some legal fictions like trying to register the Government of Saskatchewan that’s the seller of natural gas and electricity rather than Crown corporations like SaskEnergy, which the federal government would be well within their rights to reject outright because it’s a fig leaf attempting to protect those Crown corps for breaking federal law. And to add to that, the provincial minister has been spinning the falsehood that the federal “pause” on heating oil won’t reduce the rebate, and that the rebates in his province should be secure if they stop collecting the levy, which is also false–the rebates will be reduced because that money comes from collecting the carbon price—it’s not a federal entitlement programme out of general revenue.
More crazy about the Claudine Gay resignation:Has a single Saskatchewan media outlet pursued a single one of the politicians, federally or provincially, who are f**king around with this potential economic hit to many of the province's residents?
— Tammy Robert (@tammyrobert) January 2, 2024
Or are they just going to keep cheerleading "SCotT MOE SaYS nO mORe CArbOn TaX" https://t.co/rrvt97I1I9
Yes, plagiarism is the problem here - Tom Nichols is right when he says Claudine Gay's resignation was overdue. Her accusers acted in bad faith but they're not wrong.I wrote about the Claudine Gay fiasco.
— Tyler Austin Harper (@Tyler_A_Harper) January 3, 2024
Harvard’s president is not the real story. The real story is that academics and journalists have spent the last few weeks debasing our professions by insisting that plagiarism isn’t plagiarism. That it doesn’t matter. That we all do it. 𧡠https://t.co/iB8q9hGQgu
3 comments:
The question Rep. Stefanik asked the university presidents was whether the universities' codes of conduct allowed students to call for the murder or genocide of Jews. That question could easily be flipped to ask whether students are allowed to call for the murder or genocide of Palestinians. The answer in both cases is and should be "it depends," which is what the presidents answered.
University codes of conduct shouldn't, and mostly don't, curtail campus political speech. Doing so would be contrary to educational purposes. Students benefit from being exposed to a variety of views on social issues, including views they may find offensive. And, yes, "kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out," has long been a staple of jingoist political speech, especially when America's at war.
Codes of conduct should, however, allow students to be sanctioned for illegal conduct. So, if a student were arrested and convicted of incitement, harassment, and so on, then the university is able to expel them. The determination of illegal conduct is up to police, prosecutors and the courts, not the university.
There is no good reason to single out academic leaders for failing to condemn Hamas for rape, torture and killing, or for failing to condemn the far-right Israeli government for the same. Such condemnation is never demanded of business or other social leaders. As Nichols said, the accusations against the university leaders were brought in bad faith, and should be dismissed as such. And, i agree that academic allegations of plagiarism are a different matter.
Hey, Cap - Thanks for the comment.
Yes, it is a complex issue, but I still think the university presidents did their students a disservice by the way they answered the questions. In the portion of the hearing I watched, they seemed almost pleased with themselves for coming up with non-answers - they didn't seem to realize that moral clarity was needed, not academic nuance.
Yeah, I agree Cathie, the university presidents looked smug in that hearing room. But none of them was anywhere near as smug as Rep. Stefanik when she took credit for pulling them off their perches.
Anyway, happy new year to you and yours, and best wishes for 2024!
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