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Andrew Winstanley

@andrewwinstanley.bsky.social
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🇨🇦🇯🇲🇲🇽, 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 “footie”

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Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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.
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This tariff case is the reason why PM Carney has been “ragging 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.
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
washingtonpost.com
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.
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
theguardian.com
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
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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!
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
cepa.org/article/chin...
cepa.org
China Trade Truce: Beijing Boosts Its Leverage
China decouples from American and European tech suppliers, while Western allies are divided on how to respond.
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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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...
Picture of the Huntingdon train hero, Samir Zitouni, 48, on the website of Railnews.com
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
corporateknights.com/clean-techno...
corporateknights.com
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
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
scientificamerican.com
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
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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!
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/31/n...
nationalobserver.com
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 — and eventually residents and riders.
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Good to see the G7 beginning to see the logic of investing in the development of Canada’s critical mineral resources.
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/31/n...
nationalobserver.com
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...
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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 🇨🇦 has a clear idea of how seriously it should take that threat, and act accordingly.
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
thetyee.ca
‘Forever Canadian’ Results Shock the UCP Government | The Tyee
Thomas Lukaszuk delivers petitions signed by over 456,000 citizens, upsetting separatist referendum plans.
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
No bar too low…
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Kara Fagan 🇨🇦 Liberal @fagankara.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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.
canada.ca
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.
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RichardJR @electricbluesfan.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
1/12 🇨🇦 TAKING CONTROL OF THE #SEPARATIST NARRATIVE 🇨🇦 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
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
For a young niece by marriage and her 6-week baby boy somewhere in Black River:
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/03/o...
nationalobserver.com
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 “tough truths about climate.” Even setting his arguments aside for ...
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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 🇨🇦, the power to protect certain basic rights lies with the electorate, not with the Courts. As it should
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
lisayoung.substack.com/p/notwithsta...
lisayoung.substack.com
Notwithstanding all this...
As luck would have it, today I’m scheduled to teach my first-year class about … constitutions.
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
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 — ab...
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Small nuclear reactors involving U.S. or Japanese technology and burning U.S. enriched uranium do not.
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Plus, our geological resources, drilling technologies and oil field workers provide us with the capacity, expertise and labour force to blaze a path forward.
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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.
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
From CBS to TikTok, US media are falling to Trump’s allies. This is how democracy crumbles | Owen Jones
We’re watching the Orbánisation of the US – and as in Hungary, control of the media is key to consolidating power, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Geothermal heat, not small nuclear reactors, represents the technological sphere with by far the best chance for a Made in Canada future.
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
www.thestar.com/news/gta/ins...
thestar.com
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.
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Kudos to the National Observer for this insight into the next generation of Québecois Indépendantistes, 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 heritage—in short, one much like post-national 🇨🇦.
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/30/n...
nationalobserver.com
Young, proud, online: Quebec's next generation of sovereigntists hope to revive an aging movement
The self-described CEO of the next generation of Quebec sovereigntists is a 17-year-old rapper and TikTok sensation who claims to be more influential than Premier François Legault.
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The Anti-Sycophant @leinsterlad.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Picture showing America has been at war with others for 230 years of its 250 year history
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A commitment by the Federal Gov’t to finance the laying of 2 to 5 GW subsea electrical cables to augment the existing Maritime Link between NL and NS (only) in order to provide market access for the island of Newfoundland’s once promising now largely stranded offshore/onshore wind power projects.
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
UNLESS, the Federal Gov’t intervenes immediately to give NL the “sweetener” its new gov’t needs if it is to argue it has improved the deal enough to succeed on a referendum vote. What would that “sweetener” look like?
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
With the deftness of a Conservative, Wakeham has opened Pandora’s Box and is now not going to have time to close it before the Federal Gov’t is forced to move on from its strategy of building out the Atlantic Loop—thereby, depriving Canada east of Manitoba of its best option for a low carbon future.
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/29/n...
nationalobserver.com
New NL premier promises to launch review of Hydro-Québec deal within weeks
As he was sworn into office Wednesday, Tony Wakeham said he and his cabinet will discuss who will be involved in the process and what it might entail.
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
This is what happens when voters put the right people in charge.
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/30/o...
nationalobserver.com
Canadian power must serve people before tech bros and crooks
All provinces should follow BC's example and ban power allocation for cryptocurrency mines and set electricity allocation priorities for businesses they believe matter most
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
If only Canada has devoted to wind power the billions of dollars in subsidies it has lavished on oil & gas!
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds
Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A small indication as to why Canada MUST leave tariff strategies and negotiations in the hands of the one government constitutionally empowered to carry them out. Next up the SCOTUS hearing on their legality set for November 5th.
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
investingnews.com/senate-rebuk...
investingnews.com
US Senate Votes to Terminate Trump's Emergency Tariffs on Canadian Imports
The US Senate voted 50-46 to end Trump's national emergency tariffs on Canadian imports, with four Republicans joining Democrats. Is this bipartisan rebuke a sign of shifting attitudes on Capitol Hill...
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
UN assessment of 60 countries' submitted plans for climate action show only a 10% cut in greenhouse gas emissions Nowhere near what is required for sticking to 1.5C As climate change-fuelled hurricane Melissa hits Jamaica you wonder what could shift the dial www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
World’s climate plans fall drastically short of action needed, analysis shows
Recent plans submitted to UN by more than 60 countries would cut carbon by only 10%, a sixth of what is needed
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 07/05/2025
Why yes! 🔗 www.commongroundpolitics.ca/albertan-ori...
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Traditional submarines work great when it comes time for our navy to strut their stuff overseas; when it comes time to defend Canada against an actual aggressor, they will prove as useless as tits on a bull.
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Why is Canada contemplating buying expensive submarines to be manned and maintained at even greater expense when they will ultimately prove to be highly vulnerable to these inexpensive unmanned underwater drones? Sometimes, it is imperative to think ahead of the curve.
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Dr. Tea, Cake, & Revolution. @witwarrior.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
And now, even though America’s ludicrous, dangerous predicament is apparent to the whole world, there’s actually talk of Farage (Farage!) becoming Prime Minister.
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
More evidence—if more evidence is needed—that the movement to secede from 🇨🇦 is a “dead duck” in Alberta (to borrow a phrase from someone who would know).
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
'Forever Canadian' petition surpasses goal, collects 456K signatures #Alberta Thomas Lukaszuk needed 294,000 signatures for the 'Forever Canadian' petition www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
'Forever Canadian' petition surpasses goal, collects 456K signatures | CBC News
Former deputy premier of Alberta, Thomas Lukaszuk, started his campaign as a counter to separatists wanting a referendum on Alberta independence.
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Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Let’s enjoy the spectacle of watching the “experts” of climate change denialism under oath and cross examination in a Supreme Court trial. All the fossil fuel money in the world is not going to spare them from the outright humiliation coming their way.
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