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Ex-SNC Lavalin CEO, humanitarian worker both stripped of Order of Canada
Two men who were found guilty of wrongdoing have been stripped of their appointments to the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honour.
#Canada #JacquesLamarre #MarySimon #OrderofCanada
https://globalnews.ca/news/11852302/order-of-canada-stripped-daglish-lamarre/

Global News Canada 2d ago

Ex-SNC Lavalin CEO, humanitarian worker both stripped of Order of Canada
Two men who were found guilty of wrongdoing have been stripped of their appointments to the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honour.
#Canada #JacquesLamarre #MarySimon #OrderofCanada
https://globalnews.ca/news/11852302/order-of-canada-stripped-daglish-lamarre/

Global News 2d ago

Ex-SNC Lavalin CEO, humanitarian worker both stripped of Order of Canada
Two men who were found guilty of wrongdoing have been stripped of their appointments to the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honour.
#Canada #JacquesLamarre #MarySimon #OrderofCanada
https://globalnews.ca/news/11852302/order-of-canada-stripped-daglish-lamarre/

CBC Top Stories 2d ago

Governor general strips 2 Order of Canada appointees of their honours
Gov. Gen. Mary Simon has approved the termination of appointment to the Order of Canada for two former honourees who have been found guilty of wrongdoing.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/order-of-canada-terminations-9.7201491?cmp=rss

CBC Politics 2d ago

Governor general strips 2 Order of Canada appointees of their honours
Gov. Gen. Mary Simon has approved the termination of appointment to the Order of Canada for two former honourees who have been found guilty of wrongdoing.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/order-of-canada-terminations-9.7201491?cmp=rss

CBC Prince Edward Island May 11

Charlottetown police officers cleared of wrongdoing in death of man in their custody
Nova Scotia's Serious Incident Response Team has found no grounds to lay criminal charges against three Charlottetown Police Service officers following the October 2025 death of a man who was arrested, struggled with the officers and died in hospital four days later.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-agency-clears-charlottetown-police-officers-death-of-man-in-custody-9.7191261?cmp=rss

Nonilex May 4

Ridiculous

#ElonMusk settles #SEC lawsuit over #Twitter disclosures, $1.5 million fine imposed

#Musk settled the SEC's civil lawsuit accusing the world's richest person of waiting too long in 2022 to disclose his initial ‌purchases of Twitter, now known as #X.

A trust in Musk's name will pay a $1.5 million civil penalty, WITHOUT admitting #wrongdoing.

Musk won't have to give up ANY money he allegedly saved from the delay.

#law #billionaires #accountability #scammer
https://www.reuters.com/world/elon-musk-settles-sec-lawsuit-over-twitter-disclosures-trust-will-pay-15-million-2026-05-04/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

CBC Canada Apr 15

Ont. police officer who shot 19-year-old man with knife 5 times last year cleared by watchdog
The provincial Special Investigations Unit has cleared a Peel Regional Police officer of any wrongdoing after he fatally shot a 19-year-old man who was brandishing a knife in a Mississauga home last year.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/siu-police-shooting-mississauga-9.7164976?cmp=rss

WIST Quotations Apr 3

A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

Few men are sufficiently discerning to appreciate all the evil they do.

[Il n’y a guère d’homme assez habile pour connoître tout le mal qu’il fait.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶269 (1665-1678) [tr. Tancock (1959), ¶269]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #denial #ego #evil #evildoer #harm #pride #selfawareness #selfcondemnation #selfcriticism #selfdeception #selfdoubt #selfjudgment #selfopinion #selfpolicing #selfrationalization #selfreproach #selfrighteousness #vanity #wrongdoing

La Rochefoucauld, Francois - Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶269 (1665-1678) [tr. Tancock (1959), ¶269] | WIST Quotations

Few men are sufficiently discerning to appreciate all the evil they do. [Il n’y a guère d’homme assez habile pour connoître tout le mal qu’il fait.] First appeared in the 2nd (1666) edition. In manuscript, it reads "... assez pénétrant pour apercevoir tout le mal qu’il fait." (Source (French)). Other…

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WIST Quotations Mar 31

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 “Thinking,” Part 3, ch. 18 “The two-in-one” (1977)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/1350/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #amorality #apathy #banality #banalityofevil #decision #evil #good #indecision #lukewarm #moralchoice #moralcode #thoughtlessness #virtue #vice #evildoer #wrongdoing #rightandwrong #moralagency #responsiblity #takeresponsibility