Canada did away with Capital Punishment in 1976 with Bill C-84. Prior to that Capital Punishment was reserved for planned murders and the killing of Police and Prison Guards.
It seems, when you think about it, fair enough - we have an obligation to protect those who protect us.
But - the myth is that we did away with Capital Punishment. What we did away with was the right to a fair and unbiased trial. Canadian Police - and Calgary Police especially, have executed far more people in the decades following the suspension of Capital Punishment than every were executed with it. Seldom have they been offered the kind of lethal force that justifies it, and never have they been so well prepared with less violent means - with Kevlar Vests, tasers, pepper spray, etc, yet they continue to kill people at a rate that make the most generous implementation of capital punishment seem civilized by comparison.
It's overdue that we re-imagine policing in our country - things are safer than ever they've been, yet police are executing more people than ever for comparatively trivial offences. Without the benefit of judge or trial. It's a myth that we've done away with Capital Punishment. What's true is that we've made probably the least qualified people in our population both judges and executioners.
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This is one of those things that pissed me off, and I could never quite figure out why, like people demanding hot water instead of cold, it's a trifling inconvenience, and then it dawned on me. You bring someone a water - for free - and they immediately begin to bargain with you. They want the water for free, now they want a lemon for free. If you let them they'd demand their meals for free (and some have). It's just fucking bad manners. If I owned a restaurant I'd throw it on the menu - "Add a lemon to your water - only $5.00", an upsell for everyone that didn't know to leave well enough alone...
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Election Day - nobody to vote for and everybody to vote against. Politicians were in the building the other day, rapping on doors, trying to put a friendly face on incompetence and broken promises - the crackheads in the alley are generally a whole lot more likable. And while I have to vote it grieves me that regardless of the outcome, all outcomes are poor.
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YouTube - they're trying to force me to upgrade to premium, I'm being inundated with ads, listening to longer playlists, they've set every one to auto-interrupt, I'm building a list of products I'll never, ever buy.
Christina Applegate in that dumb M&M's ad, I get in French and English. I'm never buying M&M's again.
Grammarly? NEVER NEVER NEVER. FUCK OFF! ... And it's such a long, painful ad that I have to stop whatever I was doing and run to the computer to turn it off.
Internet Entrepreneurs showing me their flashy cars and telling me I could have one too....I don't want one. The UCP party - LOL, I'm NEVER THAT DRUNK.
The list goes on, and every new ad wires my brain to avoid that product at ALL costs...which, I think, rather defeats the purpose of their advertising as much as it defeats the purpose of my listening to uninterrupted music. I haven't burned my CD's yet, I might just have to go back to them...
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