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A lawyer appointed to a committee tasked with recommending new judges in Alberta has resigned after CBC inquired about his recent comparison of a future COVID-19 vaccine to Auschwitz tattoos and posting of a video that called Black Lives Matter a "leftist lie" controlled by a Jewish philanthropist.

Criminal defence lawyer Leighton Grey's numerous online posts included opinions that legal and anti-racism experts said should disqualify him from being on the Provincial Court Nominating Committee (PCNC).

"I do not accept this resignation decision lightly. Mr. Grey is a successful Indigenous lawyer with an exemplary record of service," Alberta Justice Minister Doug Schweitzer said in a statement Friday.

"I also do not make judgments on Mr. Grey's ability to carry out his professional duties in practising law."

CBC asked several legal and anti-racist experts to review Grey's social media posts and blogs, including Tom Engel, who chairs the policing committee for the Edmonton-based Criminal Trial Lawyers' Association in Alberta.

"My overall impression is that Mr. Grey is on the outer fringe of the right wing and just has no place on a committee ... that is in charge of screening," Engel said.

Bernie Farber, chair of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, said he was "disturbed on the basis of just pure humanity" when reviewing Grey's commentaries and posts.

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"Ultimately, there is no traditionally 'good' ending with [Joseph]," Grey said to me over the phone. "No matter what you do, he's gonna stay with Mary. Same with [bad boy dad] Robert. Your 'good' ending with him is that he's like, 'I need to work on myself before I can be in a relationship with anybody.' I think that's more true to life than showing that you liking somebody will be enough for this to work." Shaw added that while Dream Daddy plays off dating sim tropes like "good" endings and "bad" endings, the dev team also wanted to subvert them. So while most dating sims make your feelings paramount — allowing you to crowbar your way into just about any relationship — the goal of Dream Daddy was to put players on equal emotional footing with the characters they'd be dating. That meant creating a couple of characters you could go on dates with, but not smooch in the end. "It shouldn't necessarily be about 'woo-hoo-ing' everybody," said Shaw, referring to The Sims' term for video game sex. "Saying exactly what somebody wants to hear until they kiss you is what a sociopath does." Grey admitted that she was surprised by how many people were vocally upset about Joseph's ending. Joseph's wife Mary, Grey explained, was intended to come off as a crappy person during Joseph's story, but you're meant learn about her more redeeming qualities in bits and pieces throughout other dads' stories. Taken as a whole, their portrayal of her character was intended to get players thinking about how they play dating sims. "[The goal] was to get people to analyse why they'd villainize her when, in reality, if you're dating Joseph, you're not exactly doing so hot yourself — and how her potentially cheating justifies you doing things with Joseph," said Grey. "I'm surprised, because I thought the discourse about that path would be like, 'This feels morally dubious and bad,' because you're essentially trying to break up a marriage. I'm surprised that so many people have been like, 'Why can't we be together?'"

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