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Andrew Winstanley

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πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡―πŸ‡²πŸ‡²πŸ‡½, B.A., LL.B. (Dalhousie), LL.M. (Harvard). Living in Vancouver, B.C. (au Pays de Voyageurs). Long in the tooth but still capable of scepticism and wonder, except when watching β€œfootie”

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I always find it interesting how the story changes when a lawyer gets to court. They can say anything they want outside of court without accountability but the rules are vastly different in court where you can get seriously penalized for lying.

06.11.2025 19:28 πŸ‘ 20844 πŸ” 7678 πŸ’¬ 507 πŸ“Œ 320

This tariff case is the reason why PM Carney has been β€œragging the puck” throughout trade negotiations with the U.S. Here a conservative commentator gives a concise summary of the legal daftness underlying the Trump Administration’s tariff position and the danger SCOTUS runs in failing to see it.

05.11.2025 19:51 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | Presidential power and the Supreme Court’s own stature ride on this case The momentous tariffs case will undermine or buttress the Constitution’s separation of powers.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

05.11.2025 19:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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More than $70tn of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists warn Expert panel says report on gap in global wealth between rich and poor highlights need for intervention by G20

www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

05.11.2025 19:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This article makes it crystal clear that the West’s only hope of countering China economically is through close cooperation between the U.S. and its G7 allies, yet Trump continues to shred every chance for such cooperation to occur. Economic madness, but hey, that’s Trump!

04.11.2025 22:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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China Trade Truce: Beijing Boosts Its Leverage China decouples from American and European tech suppliers, while Western allies are divided on how to respond.

cepa.org/article/chin...

04.11.2025 22:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Picture of the Huntingdon train hero, Samir Zitouni, 48, on the website of Railnews.com

Picture of the Huntingdon train hero, Samir Zitouni, 48, on the website of Railnews.com

I don't know, people with non-Anglo-Saxon names, who don't look exactly the same as me, coming over here, risking their lives for others, sustaining life-threatening injuries when others ran to hide, stealing our headlines...

04.11.2025 11:26 πŸ‘ 114 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
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The fight against wildfires is getting increasingly high-tech Experts say that AI-enabled technology is essential to controlling wildfires before they get too big to put out

corporateknights.com/clean-techno...

04.11.2025 05:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Science of How Hurricane Melissa Became So Extreme A nearly perfect alignment of factors has enabled Hurricane Melissa to become one of the most intense Atlantic storms ever recorded

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

04.11.2025 05:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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As per the excerpt, this 10% tariff bears no resemblance to other tariffs. It is simply a federal tax of 10% on transit buses even if built in the U.S. or imported from Canada pursuant to CUSMA. Almost as if Trump, having exhausted his fentanyl excuse, was now going to war against public transit!

04.11.2025 01:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump's 10 per cent bus tariffs are about to pinch city budgets across North America A transit advocacy group is warning new US tariffs on buses coming into effect this weekend are going to upend the budgets of cities across North America β€” and eventually residents and riders.

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/31/n...

04.11.2025 01:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Good to see the G7 beginning to see the logic of investing in the development of Canada’s critical mineral resources.

04.11.2025 00:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Canada announces first G7 critical minerals investments, plans stockpile Canada announced on Friday the first round of projects under a G7 critical minerals production alliance envisioned as a counterweight to China's dominance in the sector. The 25 initiatives include pur...

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/31/n...

04.11.2025 00:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The secessionist movement in Alberta is not going to go away and its oil & gas-fed politicians are not going to stop using the threat to extort their subsidies and pipelines from the Rest of Canada, but now at last πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ has a clear idea of how seriously it should take that threat, and act accordingly.

04.11.2025 00:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Forever Canadian’ Results Shock the UCP Government | The Tyee Thomas Lukaszuk delivers petitions signed by over 456,000 citizens, upsetting separatist referendum plans.

thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

04.11.2025 00:02 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

No bar too low…

03.11.2025 23:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Let's celebrate National Francophone Immigration Week - Canada.ca The Honourable Lena Metlege Diab, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, issued the following statement to recognize National Francophone Immigration Week.

www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...

I am proud to note that we are on track to meet our 2025 admissions target of 8.5% for French-speaking permanent residents outside Quebec.

03.11.2025 14:40 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ TAKING CONTROL OF THE #SEPARATIST NARRATIVE πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

In a pivotal moment for Alberta, former Deputy Premier Thomas #Lukaszuk turned in a #citizen #petition with more than 456,000 signatures, all urging the province to unapologetically remain a part of Canada.

#AbLeg

03.11.2025 09:38 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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For a young niece by marriage and her 6-week baby boy somewhere in Black River:

03.11.2025 17:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Category 5 correction to climate complacency Around the same time as Melissa terrorized and killed people across the Caribbean, Bill Gates was publishing his own self-proclaimed β€œtough truths about climate.” Even setting his arguments aside for ...

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/03/o...

03.11.2025 17:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Finally, someone who understands the reason behind our notwithstanding clause and its relationship to the far more important constitutional principle of Parliamentary Supremacy. In a nutshell, in πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦, the power to protect certain basic rights lies with the electorate, not with the Courts. As it should

02.11.2025 20:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Notwithstanding all this... As luck would have it, today I’m scheduled to teach my first-year class about … constitutions.

lisayoung.substack.com/p/notwithsta...

02.11.2025 20:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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How a Calgary geothermal company is making its mark across the Atlantic | CBC News A Calgary geothermal company, Eavor Technologies Inc., has been awarded a grant from the European Innovation Fund (EIF) in support of the Canadian firm's geothermal project in Geretsried, Germany β€”Β ab...

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

02.11.2025 19:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Small nuclear reactors involving U.S. or Japanese technology and burning U.S. enriched uranium do not.

02.11.2025 19:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Plus, our geological resources, drilling technologies and oil field workers provide us with the capacity, expertise and labour force to blaze a path forward.

02.11.2025 19:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If it is not to lose its soul, Canada must emerge from its trade war with the Trump Government without losing its sovereign capacity to control U.S. social media.

02.11.2025 19:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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From CBS to TikTok, US media are falling to Trump’s allies. This is how democracy crumbles | Owen Jones We’re watching the OrbΓ‘nisation of the US – and as in Hungary, control of the media is key to consolidating power, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

02.11.2025 19:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Geothermal heat, not small nuclear reactors, represents the technological sphere with by far the best chance for a Made in Canada future.

02.11.2025 19:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Inside the deal that’s making geothermal heat go mainstream in Toronto Over the past decade, geothermal has gone from being installed in less than one per cent of new homes in Toronto to nearly 30 per cent this year, according to the Ontario Geothermal Association.

www.thestar.com/news/gta/ins...

02.11.2025 19:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Kudos to the National Observer for this insight into the next generation of QuΓ©becois IndΓ©pendantistes, who, one will note, strive for a francophone nation-state in North America open to immigrants and at ease with its Indigenous, French and English heritageβ€”in short, one much like post-national πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦.

01.11.2025 22:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0