Episodes
Friday Sep 07, 2018
Trinity Western Denied Law School Accreditation with Deina Warren - 6CR #29
Friday Sep 07, 2018
Friday Sep 07, 2018
Trinity Western University lost their appeal for law school accreditation by the Supreme Court of Canada on the basis that the school's community covenant denied equal access to the legal profession. Deina Warren acted as co-counsel with Derek Ross for the intervener Christian Legal Fellowship in this appeal. Deina joins Darnell & Joel to discuss this case. The conversation covers the following:
- Trinity Western's Community Covenant
- Historical context for getting to the supreme court
- 2001 Court Case for Teacher's College Accreditation re: Covenant
- Unprecendent behaviour by the Supreme Court and its representatives during the case
- The law being used as a sword instead of a shield
Reference Articles:
Trinity Western Loses law school appeal at Supreme Court
Trinity Western and the Endangerment of Religious Pluralism in Canada
The TWU decision is a blow to diversity
Your Guide to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
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Friday Aug 03, 2018
Summer Jobs & Ideology Requirements - 6CR #25
Friday Aug 03, 2018
Friday Aug 03, 2018
The Canadian government has added an ideology attestation to receive funding for summer internship grant. Darnell & Joel discuss the significance of the government requesting organizations to affirm a set of beliefs regarding abortion and transgender identity. The conversartion includes the following:
- Fairness of the ideology test
- Society's morality is subjective & the problems with legislating morality
- Impersonal charity via government vs volutary charity
- Summer job grants is the government circumventing minimum wage
https://sixcentsreport.podbean.com/
Reference Links:
Government Examples of Organizations denied eligibility
87 religious leaders ask Trudeau gov’t to drop summer job pro-abortion pledge
Global News: President of Canada Christian College attacks PM @JustinTrudeau
What the US Can Learn From Portugal's Drug Decriminalization
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Friday Jun 01, 2018
Voting Pt 1: Principles over Politics - 6CR #16
Friday Jun 01, 2018
Friday Jun 01, 2018
In Ontario, we have a provincial election on June 7, 2018. Darnell & Joel use the Canadian Federal system to discuss how they view voting and the principles they use to analyse political parties.
https://www.elections.on.ca/en.html
Reference Links:
Three Levels of Government in Canada
Left vs Right - Key Concepts in Politics and International Relations - pg 119-120
Authoritarian vs Laissez-faire / Libertarian
How crushing is Ontario’s $312 billion debt?
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