Notices by M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@mastodon.club), page 18

@JordiGH
I think rather the secularism law is driven by hostility to Islam.

Confusion between the hijab and the niqab is also an important factor, I suspect.

@allan Did you sign up for a paid account with the *WP*? If not, then how did you get around the paywall?

@JordiGH @eightbitsamurai
Here's the argument I make:

The law forbids certain people from wearing religious symbols in the exercise of their functions. That forbids, for instance, an Orthodox Jewish man from wearing a kippah as a teacher. On the other hand, a non-religious teacher would be permitted to wear a kippah as a personal fashion choice.

What is the logic that permits an act for frivolous reasons, but forbids that same act for reasons of conscience?

A Sunday walk up mont royal rewarded me with this amazing view of this bright-feathered species unique to Montreal.

I was listening to a CBC podcast, "Shepherds or Scapegoats". I'm going to stay away from the main topic of the piece, which is not well-suited to discussion on Mastodon. But perhaps a passing observation would not be amiss:

I found it striking that the second half of the episode spoke of Catholicism, of the Church, of the Vatican, of justice, of the Holy Spirit; but there was no mention of Jesus. Any Catholicism detached from the Saviour is empty.

#Jesus
#Catholic #Church

"Middle class incomes aren’t stagnating in Canada: they’re up a third after inflation from where they were 20 years ago. The share of income going to the “top 1 per cent” is falling, not rising, here, and has been for more than a decade; at 7.3 per cent, after-tax, it is at its lowest level since 1996. Poverty levels are the lowest on record." -- #AndrewCoyne:

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/andrew-coyne-why-you-shouldnt-expect-to-see-populism-take-root-in-canada

@AppleStrudelMan Are you moving toward #Jupyter? What sort of analysis do you do?

@FssOfDeath @ink_slinger Apparently the idea of the Whole Language method is that if you surround a child by hamburgers, she'll learn to love them and figure out how to make them on her own. You'll never have to teach her about patties or buns.

Of course we often work out the meaning of words by context and repeated exposure; but it is hard to see how one could guess the connection between a written word and its pronunciation without first connecting letters with sounds.

@leshoshin Un plan contre la #pauvreté n'est pas de tout la même chose qu'un plan contre l'#inégalité.

Si, par exemple, les riches perdent 90 % de leurs actifs dans la bourse, ça diminuerait l'inégalité, mais les pauvres ne seraient pas moins pauvres.