Joel Booker

TVDSB English and History teacher, father, husband and aspiring human. M.A. Hon.B.A. B.Ed. OCT Weird

[Joel Booker @BookerMaster]

Fantastic show of support for our students showcasing their talents in the talent show. So proud of the participants and student body! Go Oaks!

[Joel Booker @BookerMaster]

@robbins_narda Hang in there. You are a great teacher and have made huge impacts.

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Get your game on with these board games for every kind of player https://t.co/X0C5jYBNu6

[Dr. Michael F. Bird @mbird12]

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, and the distinction between true and false, no longer exists.”
- Hannah Arendt

[Joel Booker @BookerMaster]

@rachelpeters Wooooooow. That is corporate supervillain level evil.

[Joel Booker @BookerMaster]

Question of the day: people have no a glorious history of animal themed clothing styles; see the turtle neck inspired by turtles or the mock neck inspired by mocking birds mocking turtles. What is the next animal inspired style that we need?

[Joel Booker @BookerMaster]

@mystery23_ How are they not doing this on CFL fields in January. A national tragedy.

[Joel Booker @BookerMaster]

Question of the day: what is a winter sport that should exist, but doesn’t?

[Joel Booker @BookerMaster]

Someone suggested figure sword skating - and now I want Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon featuring Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue.

[Joel Booker @BookerMaster]

Law should designed with its potential abuse in mind. The problem with this law is it was *designed* to be abused. This is made worse immeasurably with its section 33 use, because -with its abusive underlay- it claims not to ‘appealable’. This is utterly unjust. #onted #CUPE

[Joel Booker @BookerMaster]

Another issue with Ontario’s Bill 28 besides its use of section 33 of the constitution, is how it violates the concept of proportionality. Proportionality is the concept that the punishment should match the crime… (thread)

[Joel Booker @BookerMaster]

This is *per day*, and conceivably the government could seize the entirety or more of the salary after 10 days. Some would say it is a maximum and only a threat, not intended to be used. But law should *always* be designed and conceived in its best and worst application…

[Joel Booker @BookerMaster]

@MsAGilbert @PeelLabour Over anything not exclusively provincial for the purposes of “law, order, and good government”. Either way it will start a major legal battle between federal and provincial powers. One wonders whether this was the plan.

[Joel Booker @BookerMaster]

@MsAGilbert @PeelLabour Possibly. It’s a muddy area that hasn’t really been tried and will pit federal and provincial powers. The other possibility is to use the Federal Residuary Powers as laid out in section 91 of the Constitution. This confers the federal government power…

[David King @dkingofABC]

I am not an Ontarian, or a teacher, or an education assistant, but I have a perspective on the Ford government’s “Keeping Students in Schools Act”. I was Minister of Education in Alberta for 7 years, including the time the Charter was developed and enacted. #onted #onpoli

[Joel Booker @BookerMaster]

I hope I am wrong, but I am appalled that this was seemingly not considered. Last week, I thought the parties would find a settlement. Once I heard that section 33 had been used as an escalation, all bets were off where this would end.

To be clear I am not a CUPE member. #onted

[Joel Booker @BookerMaster]

I teach law and I am blown away and the speed at which precedent setting major changes have happened over the last 5-6 years. The most recent being that the Ontario government suspended the Charter to end labour negotiations and prevent a strike. No back to work (thread)

[Joel Booker @BookerMaster]

Which nearly severed the country, with a hairline vote in which Quebec did not separate. Arguably, our country is less unified than at that time, and if Ford - by abusing the Charter opens the can of Constitutional reform, there may be no reassembling the pieces afterwards.