Robert A. Klosa

No one of consequence. Opinions are my own.

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

https://t.co/bOrJjv4PxJ

[Robert A. Klosa @Klosaro]

@drterrysimpson No no. The money goes to the CGM whisperers. Only they can tell you the secret meaning behind ever squiggle.

[Diamond Isinger @diamondisinger]

Uh, guys... Premier @fordnation has a chance to do THE funniest thing here. 🇨🇦

[Robert A. Klosa @Klosaro]

Real question … is China’s military + geography stronger than Iran + geography? If the US can’t hobble Iran how do they expect to defeat China? Will the whole world … can the whole world … stop trading with China to support American foreign policy if it comes to that? I mean the EU is still buying hydrocarbons from Russia. Honestly I don’t want to know the answer.

[Robert A. Klosa @Klosaro]

@WarMonitor3 We have not. Just a few politicians bloviating.

[Robert A. Klosa @Klosaro]

@ExnerPirot Som pay more for green energy. I would pay more for cdn. Give me the option.

[ProudCanRobz 🇨🇦 @RMapleCan]

USMCA, signed with a PENCIL ✏️

[SoniaJ🇨🇦 @sj_ca1867]

Provinces need to get their shit together, sit down and get interprovincial trade barriers down.

[Robert A. Klosa @Klosaro]

@SpragueFoods I want to talk to my local grocery store about carrying your products. Do you have a sales package or contact information I can share with them?

[Robert A. Klosa @Klosaro]

@alleria_eh You get what you pay for I guess.

[Robert A. Klosa @Klosaro]

@mattgurney There is a difference between recognizing that your mother is fat and saying it out loud. Uttering the truth is not always the best policy.

[Robert A. Klosa @Klosaro]

At a certain point we have to let the negotiators negotiate the deal. They know what's coming and what is at stake. We also have to be realistic about what kind of deal is on offer and what the next best alternative is to a negotiated settlement. I see this as an effort to buy us time to diversify our trade and to get our internal shit in order. Honestly I have a faith in Canadians. I don't believe many will be buying American alcohol any time soon even if it is on the shelf.

[Robert A. Klosa @Klosaro]

@JodiesJumpsuit @stphnmaher Yes! It helps them get rid of some very poorly drafted legislation with lots of unintended side effects and which didn't achieve its intended objectives.

[Robert A. Klosa @Klosaro]

@HillelNeuer Fabulist is a beautiful word and the perfect choice here.

[Committee for Academic Freedom @ComAcFreedom]

STATEMENT: The Committee for Academic Freedom (CAF) is deeply concerned by Ghent University’s (@ugent’s) suspension of Dr Nathan Cofnas. While we take no view on the merits of Dr Cofnas’s — or any other scholar’s — views beyond the question of whether they are lawful, the reasons now given for his suspension raise grave questions of academic freedom and set a potentially dangerous precedent for its restriction.

Ghent’s suspension letter, which we have seen in full, relies extensively not on alleged misconduct by Dr Cofnas, but on the reactions of others to his appointment and public activity. It repeatedly converts the scale of that opposition into evidence supporting disciplinary intervention: a student campaign established specifically to oppose his appointment, a petition signed by more than 2,000 students, complaints from staff, more than 100 emails to the University, the withdrawal of a guest lecturer and the prospect of an academic boycott.

That is perilously close to an institutionalised heckler’s veto: the greater the hostility generated by protected speech, the stronger the case for restricting the speaker.

The perverse incentive this creates should be obvious. If opponents of an academic know that mobilising sufficient complaints, petitions, boycotts and disruption can itself become evidence that the academic’s continued employment is causing unacceptable “unrest”, an institution effectively provides a roadmap for getting controversial scholars suspended.

Former ACLU director Ira Glasser once compared speech restrictions to poison gas: attractive when the weapon is in your hands and your opponent is in your sights, but rather less so when the political wind changes direction. The same warning applies when a heckler’s veto is allowed, almost by default, to become part of an institution’s disciplinary reasoning. Once the threshold for intervention is lowered in this way, the principle becomes available for use against academics of every political and intellectual persuasion, depending only on who happens to be holding the institutional levers.

The protection of #academicfreedom cannot depend on how successfully an academic’s opponents are able to mobilise pressure against them. CAF therefore urges Ghent University to correct course. If it believes Dr Cofnas has committed misconduct, it should specify that misconduct and assess it on its merits. But opposition, outrage and reputational pressure generated by lawful academic expression cannot properly substitute for a disciplinary case.

[Robert A. Klosa @Klosaro]

@CLukeNicholsn @MichaelBev13772 @USTradeRep No whole milk in Canada. Just homo.

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

I am bewildered, and not very impressed, by the visceral, naked, irrational hatred spat out by some defenders of Jason Arday. If a Cambridge professor is accused of being an unqualified charlatan, the accusation might be racially motivated. On the other hand it might not, depending on the evidence. The correct question to ask is not, ”What is the colour of his skin” but “Is it in fact true that he is an unqualified charlatan?” Please examine the evidence before leaping to the assumption of racism.
As for the idea that journalists “piled in on him” and “hounded him to his death”, most attacks were against Cambridge University. Jason himself was widely regarded as an unfortunate victim of foolish promotion way beyond his ability to cope. In appointing him to a professorship for which he was manifestly unqualified – in ludicrously describing him as “the best in the world” – certain senior members of the university showed a level of patronising condescension towards black people that could fairly be described as racism, while at the same time making him tragically vulnerable to such attacks as came his way.

[Robert A. Klosa @Klosaro]

@SomerwilTara 10 years+ clean keto. CAC 400+.

[Robert A. Klosa @Klosaro]

@aporia9n @Nouriel Calgary but not Toronto?