D. Jared Brown

Litigation counsel in Toronto. Advisory, Governance. Contributor Canadian Lawyer, Lawyers Daily/Law360, Law Times.

[D. Jared Brown @LitigationGuy]

This Stanley Cup is something. I don't recall 2 teams so evenly matched. Very entertaining.

[CTV News @CTVNews]

How high pandemic-period immigration papered over the cracks in Canada's economy https://t.co/I7tSCdJJIa

[D. Jared Brown @LitigationGuy]

This is Canada now. Broken, unsafe, diminished and deteriorating. It doesn't have to be this way.

https://t.co/S1DEUI8Utc

[D. Jared Brown @LitigationGuy]

@DrJacobsRad Was Carney not aware of the positions and backgrounds of those he appointed? The fallout from the appointments stomps all over any effort he made to appear to be doing something. These progressives really have a blind spot (or worse) on anti-Semitism.

[D. Jared Brown @LitigationGuy]

The mass importation of low skilled immigrants, uber eats drivers, and foreign students was a deliberate Liberal economic strategy all along. Our leadership class is that inept.

[TrendingPolitics.ca @TrendPolCa]

NEW: Prime Minister @MarkJCarney says the "weakness" in Canada's back-to-back quarters of economic contraction is partly a side effect of the government's decision to slash immigration targets, arguing fewer people means lower headline GDP numbers — Globe and Mail

[Patrick Brethour @PatrickBrethour]

Globe editorial: Why Chief Justice Richard Wagner should recuse himself
https://t.co/kWqjl457dj

[Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers @UnderSecPD]

In 2021, Canadian media and institutions basically hallucinated the discovery of 215 children’s bodies in a mass grave near a former Catholic residential school. The evidence: radar saw soil disturbances that could have been tree roots. A wave of church arsons ensued.

People making the case for censorship often urge that destructive manias like this can be suppressed/soothed if we prevent people from communicating about them. And here was a perfect case: false information was being recklessly (or maliciously) amplified, leading to literal hate crimes. Shouldn’t the censors do something?

But the mass-grave craze infected the censorship class, so opposition got targeted instead. At least one “disinformation” NGO categorized skepticism as “hate speech,” and Canada even saw efforts to criminalize so-called “denialism” (drawing an absurd comparison to the Holocaust).

Good for the Globe and Mail to come clean.

[Harrison Lowman @harrisonlowman]

Holy shit. @globeandmail editorial board:

“The fact of the crimes committed against Indigenous children at residential schools over many decades does not automatically validate claims that hundreds of students were dumped into unmarked graves in Kamloops and other residential schools. That is an extraordinary assertion, one that requires proof.

That should have been the starting point for the media in May, 2021, when the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation first issued a press release announcing the “confirmation of the remains of 215 children of the Kamloops Indian Residential School” through the use of ground-penetrating radar that identified subterranean anomalies.

The media, including The Globe and Mail, did not initially scrutinize, much less challenge, that assertion. The initial headlines and stories in the media simply stated as fact that the remains of 215 children had been found. Many of those early stories, including in this newspaper, made reference to “mass graves” (a historically fraught phrase that does not appear in the Tk’emlúps 2021 press release).

Perhaps it will be proven, some day, that there are hundreds of unmarked graves at Kamloops. But it was not proven to be true in May, 2021. It is not proven to be true today.

…That evolution in language does not erase the initial failure of journalism. The lesson of 2021 should be: assertions about residential schools should be listened to carefully, and then, just as carefully, held up to scrutiny.”

[D. Jared Brown @LitigationGuy]

The tax and spend economy snuffs out growth. It doesn't have to be this way and isn't in other places in the world.

[Mackenzie Gray @Gray_Mackenzie]

Canada is now in a technical recession, after fresh Statscan data had a real GDP decline in Q1, the second consecutive quarter of decline

The 0.1% annualized drop in Q1 was a big surprised compared to economists prediction of 1.5% growth #cdnpoli

https://t.co/c26TPoloJ6

[Josh Dehaas @JoshDehaas]

@michaelsfirm @LitigationGuy @SCC_eng Nope. They did not. They simply refused to hear the a case where the AT comments were arguably obiter dicta.

[Josh Dehaas @JoshDehaas]

@CTVNews Nope.

[D. Jared Brown @LitigationGuy]

@JoshDehaas @michaelsfirm @SCC_eng Yep

[Michael Lesage @michaelsfirm]

The @SCC_eng just walked back the dumb BC court decision (Cowichan Tribes) which put private property at risk, indicating that private property can't be taken via claims of aboriginal title. Guess they didn't want to turn Canada into Venezuela after all.... https://t.co/MGtsrBRL99

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

Today is the 5th anniversary of the 1st fake news reports that “bodies of 215 children” were found in Kamloops. (No bodies were ever found.) The 1st to report was local radio station CJFC. Here is the historic tweet that set off the biggest journalistic disgrace in Cdn history…

[D. Jared Brown @LitigationGuy]

@Dock_Currie 47%

[D. Jared Brown @LitigationGuy]

This is propaganda on par with Soviet advertising of the success of their 5 year plans.

[CityNews Toronto @CityNewsTO]

The number of Canadians who believe the country is heading in the right direction has hit its highest percentage since 2017, according to a new poll from Abacus Data. https://t.co/DwybAr7qhs

[D. Jared Brown @LitigationGuy]

@Dock_Currie Boy do I have news for you...

[D. Jared Brown @LitigationGuy]

Great fun behind the bench with Leah and Pro Hockey's big win at Niagara.

[D. Jared Brown @LitigationGuy]

@CTVNews Still less than half.

[D. Jared Brown @LitigationGuy]

Erskine-Smith is now an election denier and threat to democracy. I don't make the rules...this is the style guide of our era.

[Laura Stone @l_stone]

#BREAKING: The Ontario Liberal Party has dismissed Nate Erskine-Smith's appeal of the Scarborough Southwest nomination, finding "no irregularities" and determining that Ahsanul Hafiz was the true winner of the vote. #onpoli