I have to admit, I’m a little uncomfortable with this one - expropriation is a pretty extreme measure, and more housing is needed.

But I have no skin in this game, the details are obviously pretty complex, and it seems like a pretty unique situation.

Then we should be tracking down and firing everyone involved from all parties?

Yup.

In this case, I think there might be a case to be made.

“The prosecutor would be, I think, concerned … if the investigation was still going on behind the scenes, without them being looped in, while they’re trying to prosecute a case,” said Michael Arntfield, a criminologist and professor at Western University who worked for 16 years as a detective with the London Police Service in Ontario.

“If they say they can’t interview him, that to me sounds like they’ve taken direction either from the Crown or from superior officers to not potentially interfere with the prosecution.”

Sure, I just don’t find “everybody does it” to be a particularly compelling argument. Wrong is wrong.

Absolutely. It’s beyond me why someone would be against a hearing taking place, considering a “no” would be practically guaranteed in cases like these.

Carney said they’ve been “reassigned” within the campaign.

Not nearly enough.

Is it safe to say that casual use of the notwithstanding clause has been normalized to the point that there are no real consequences to invoking it any more?

I don’t know much about military training, but I do know that grouping students into “squadrons” is done today - I don’t know that the grouping is based on anything, but it makes a certain kind of sense that Starfleet would embrace a kind of “meritocracy” approach to it, even if it also comes off as elitist.

Perhaps Nova Squadron is a long-held academy tradition, and despite the initial fallout of the 2368 incident, that’s overshadowed by its long history of outstanding cadets, a legacy the academy didn’t want to suddenly erase.

I think this is likely. Scandals come and go, but they often don’t overpower institutional inertia.

Despite the mixed results last season, I am glad that RTD is putting at least a little more weight behind the arcs than his previous “recurring words in each episode” schtick.

We’ll always look ahead to the future if we get the chance to keep running. I’ve got ideas. “I think I’ll do that near [Season] 4 or 5.” And that’s always the way I’ve worked on things. So yes, I could promise you amazing stuff at the end of Season 4. There are things we’ve already mentioned that are going to bear fruit a long time into the future. So that’s just the fun of it. That’s the fun of Doctor Who. But, to say again, it’s the pit stops along the way.

That cat ain’t coming back - RTD has always been a rather bloodthirsty showrunner.

Couldn’t agree less - I think the 32nd century is a fantastic setting, especially for a show like this.

CBC is reporting this as fact, not an allegation - it’s safe to assume that they know exactly who these campaign workers are.

There are also decent reasons not to name them just yet - if they’re low-level staffers, it’s worth trying to get a comment from the Party first, and/or try to determine how far up the ladder this goes. No sense in scapegoating the grunts until the higher-ups are ID’d.

On Friday night, in two Ottawa bars, campaign workers shared how the party was behind this move — how two Liberal Party staffers attended the conference intended for conservatives and placed these buttons in areas where attendees would find them.

One of those conversations was in the immediate earshot of this journalist. A Conservative source overheard the other conversation.

Great, it just became easier to dismiss legitimate criticism of the Conservatives as a false-flag operation.

Brilliant move.

Watching it back, I think I was bumped by the fact that Belinda decides to turn herself in while the area is being shelled, and they then cut immediately to her going to the polishbot, but the attack is over by then.

#notallalans

Okay, paintball guns that create sparks on impact are rad. I wonder if they’re widely used in the industry - this is the first I’ve heard of it.

Also rad? That Unleashed isn’t a BBC/iPlayer exclusive any more.

One thing I forgot to mention: is it just me, or was there a very confusing edit in the middle of the scene in which the rebel base was under attack. They were taking fire, shit was going crazy, and then…it was dead calm while we saw Belinda reactivating the floor polisher. Which I guess was a flashback?

I thought that was a very solid season opener - it certainly surpassed my modest expectations.

I didn’t think much of the retrofuturistic stylings in the previews, but the robots won me over with their absolutely ridiculous arms.

It’s interesting that the Doctor was on the planet for six months - wasn’t that also the length of time he and Ruby went on adventures between “Space Babies” and “The Devil’s Chord”. This episode has to take place after “Boom”, though, so it might be a coincidence. It’s just in my head because it does sound like we’re going to get a glimpse of those six missing months later this season.

Making the villain a manosphere chud was rather timely (or maybe just evergreen over the past decade or so), especially on the heels of the discourse around Netflix’s “Adolescence”.