Blogs Mar 29, 2010 at 8:30 am

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Sounds like he could use a good dose of "electroconvulsive aversion therapy."
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I vote for castration!
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"He also held conscientious objectors against their will at a military hospital because they were "disturbed" and subjected them to powerful drug regimens."
How hideous. And University of Calgary, what the fuck were you guys thinking?
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This guy was one twisted piece of work. I mean, Dan barely hits the high points of this guy's career. On the bright side, let's see him sue his way out of this one...
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The only job he'll be able to get after this is youth pastor
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Seriously, Calgary, what the fuck.
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GGG fail.
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Homosexuals are ruining the ministry and now academia.
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They just hosted Ann Coulter too.
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...how did this piece of shit get a job at the University of Calgary medical school?

A better question is why the hell was this racist fascist creep allowed to give testimony for the prosecution in a court of law. At a guess I'd have to say the answer is, it's Alberta.

...he managed to suppress public discussion of his past by threatening lawsuits against news organisations that attempted to explore it.

Let's hear it for the first amendment. Although given how decrepit the big news organizations are here in the U.S., he might well have gotten away with that here too.

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After having been unduly exposed to "Journey Into Manhood," to get rid of my gayness (so that I may make Mormon Jesus happy), nothing gets under my skin more than 'ex-gay' therapists.

Of course he was hitting on patients. Happens all the fucking time, and happened to me at least TWICE while I was attending BYU.
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10: an even better question is why he was allowed into Canada in the first place.
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Calgary has A LOT of US ex-pats working in the oil industry, especially Texans. The fact that a dip-shit like Coulter gets a warm welcome there I think is directly attributable to that. The very few rabid right wingers I know (or know of) there are all from the US of A.
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It's almost like you have a grudge against guys into non-consensual S&M. He just wants to get into some hot e-stim action with other dudes who are trying to avoid same sex contact. What happened to you acceptance of kinks?
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Wow! I live in Calgary and haven't heard anything about this at all until now! Glad they caught the fucker.
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What does this guy deserve?
I say we stomp him, then we tattoo him, then we hang him, and then we kill him.
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Good they're putting him on the hot coals. The same government scrutiny happened for Seattle's very own Anne "The Manne" Lawrence in 1997. Alas, little emerged from it with exception to more scarred people in the dozen years therefrom.

Dan, you could just as easily ask how and why Canada and the University of Toronto let in and hired, respectively, two Americans named Ray Blanchard and Kenneth Zucker, both of whom have demonstrably behaved no less abusively, no less unethically, or no less deleteriously than this Levin dickweed.

People just wait for the day when they're outed and then busted for the recklessly bad shit they've done to others. Just sayin'.
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Wow! Can't wait to get me some of our new Canadian style health care!
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It's Alberta.

Which explains a lot.

Seriously, the only two provinces that the health care sucks are: Alberta and P.Q. (QC)
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OK, this is getting ridiculous. We've arrived at the point where one really has to assume that any homophobe is having some creepy, closeted form of gay sex.
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Alberta definitely has its share of WTF. That Dr. Levin was able to practice psychiatry here at all is atrocious. I'm also not happy that the media here are so slow to pick up on this. As of the writing of this comment, neither of Calgary's major newspapers nor CBC is carrying the story. CTV's station in Calgary is reporting it. Thanks for sharing this, Dan. This reader in Calgary appreciates it.
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Wow. As a student in the faculty of medicine at the University of Calgary, I'm shocked and disgusting that my own faculty would employ this guy. This is also the first I've heard of it. I will be passing on this story to a bunch of my fellow med students.

And regarding Ann Coulter, she did not get a warm welcome. There were protests, believe me. We just didn't manage to cancel her speech.
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Maybe I'm not remembering correctly, but don't citizens from the British Commonwealth countries get to move and re-locate from one member nation to another more easily than someone from a non-member country would? Maybe a rogue South African gets into Canada without a lot of the vetting Canadian immigration gives to even an American?
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@19: Will, almost no one calls Québec "P.Q." anymore. That's sooooo pre-révolution tranquille".

Both Alberta and Québec, as you point out, are the two provinces that have made the greatest strides towards offering a privatized health insurance option alongside provincially-run, federally-mandated Medicare (that is, the original Medicare, which is Canadian). There was the 2005 Supreme Court of Canada ruling which gave Québec residents the option to go private.

Alberta, under the Ralph + Ed Show, just wants to be Texas without the outstanding food or gorgeous wildflowers. (Sorry, wild rose.)
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sorry to hear that, you budding but sadly inept Hitler Youth wannabe.
maybe by the next time Ann comes to visit you could have a concentration camo ready.
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...camp...
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@25:
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity."--Ann Coulter

"And regarding Ann Coulter, she did not get a warm welcome. There were protests, believe me. We just didn't manage to cancel her speech."--UofC Med Student

Which sounds more Nazi-st?
The guy/girl who doesn't want to invite Coulter to speak at the university that he/she is a student at? They weren't saying she couldn't voice her opinion, they just didn't want her to be invited over. If that's a 1st Amendment right, I hereby order you to invite me to your personal abode so that I can deliver a treatise on the various flavors of pudding.
Or the woman who thinks "we just want Jews to be perfected" as a rationale for forcibly converting us?
Hitler wanted to perfect the Jews too, only he wanted to turn us into something other than right-wing Christians. But judging by you and by such public figures as the charming Ms. Coulter, there's not always a noticeable difference between a right-wing Christian and a bar of soap.
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If someone like this were going to be anywhere in Canada, Calgary is where he would be. Alberta is the asshole of Canada, and Calgary is a festering sore on that asshole. It's actually kind of nice for the rest of the country, because most of the rightwing evangelist dickwads and other bigots from the rest of the country have voluntarily moved there.

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