Reposted by Andrew WinstanleyBlue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 06/11/2025I 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. 497206927619
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 05/11/2025This 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. 040
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 05/11/2025www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | Presidential power and the Supreme Court’s own stature ride on this caseThe momentous tariffs case will undermine or buttress the Constitution’s separation of powers. 110
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 05/11/2025www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...theguardian.comMore than $70tn of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists warnExpert panel says report on gap in global wealth between rich and poor highlights need for intervention by G20 020
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025This 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! 032
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025cepa.org/article/chin...cepa.orgChina Trade Truce: Beijing Boosts Its LeverageChina decouples from American and European tech suppliers, while Western allies are divided on how to respond. 110
Reposted by Andrew WinstanleyBen Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 04/11/2025I 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... 111026
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025corporateknights.com/clean-techno...corporateknights.comThe fight against wildfires is getting increasingly high-techExperts say that AI-enabled technology is essential to controlling wildfires before they get too big to put out 000
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...scientificamerican.comThe Science of How Hurricane Melissa Became So ExtremeA nearly perfect alignment of factors has enabled Hurricane Melissa to become one of the most intense Atlantic storms ever recorded 011
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025As 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! 000
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/31/n...nationalobserver.comTrump's 10 per cent bus tariffs are about to pinch city budgets across North AmericaA 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. 100
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Good to see the G7 beginning to see the logic of investing in the development of Canada’s critical mineral resources. 030
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/31/n...nationalobserver.comCanada announces first G7 critical minerals investments, plans stockpileCanada 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... 130
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025The 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. 010
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...thetyee.ca‘Forever Canadian’ Results Shock the UCP Government | The TyeeThomas Lukaszuk delivers petitions signed by over 456,000 citizens, upsetting separatist referendum plans. 141
Reposted by Andrew WinstanleyKara Fagan 🇨🇦 Liberal @fagankara.bsky.social · 03/11/2025www.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.caLet's celebrate National Francophone Immigration Week - Canada.caThe Honourable Lena Metlege Diab, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, issued the following statement to recognize National Francophone Immigration Week. 0105
Reposted by Andrew WinstanleyRichardJR @electricbluesfan.bsky.social · 03/11/20251/12 🇨🇦 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 24319
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 03/11/2025For a young niece by marriage and her 6-week baby boy somewhere in Black River: 000
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 03/11/2025www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/03/o...nationalobserver.comA Category 5 correction to climate complacencyAround 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 ... 100
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Finally, 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 000
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 02/11/2025lisayoung.substack.com/p/notwithsta...lisayoung.substack.comNotwithstanding all this...As luck would have it, today I’m scheduled to teach my first-year class about … constitutions. 100
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 02/11/2025www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caHow a Calgary geothermal company is making its mark across the Atlantic | CBC NewsA 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... 011
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Small nuclear reactors involving U.S. or Japanese technology and burning U.S. enriched uranium do not. 000
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Plus, our geological resources, drilling technologies and oil field workers provide us with the capacity, expertise and labour force to blaze a path forward. 010
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 02/11/2025If 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.u.social 000
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 02/11/2025www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comFrom CBS to TikTok, US media are falling to Trump’s allies. This is how democracy crumbles | Owen JonesWe’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 100
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Geothermal heat, not small nuclear reactors, represents the technological sphere with by far the best chance for a Made in Canada future. 110
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 02/11/2025www.thestar.com/news/gta/ins...thestar.comInside the deal that’s making geothermal heat go mainstream in TorontoOver 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. 110
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Kudos 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 🇨🇦. 000
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 01/11/2025www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/30/n...nationalobserver.comYoung, proud, online: Quebec's next generation of sovereigntists hope to revive an aging movementThe 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. 110
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025A 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. 000
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025UNLESS, 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? 100
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025With 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. 100
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/29/n...nationalobserver.comNew NL premier promises to launch review of Hydro-Québec deal within weeksAs 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. 100
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025This is what happens when voters put the right people in charge. 010
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/30/o...nationalobserver.comCanadian power must serve people before tech bros and crooksAll provinces should follow BC's example and ban power allocation for cryptocurrency mines and set electricity allocation priorities for businesses they believe matter most 110
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025If only Canada has devoted to wind power the billions of dollars in subsidies it has lavished on oil & gas! 010
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comWind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study findsReduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand 120
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025A 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. 000
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025investingnews.com/senate-rebuk...investingnews.comUS Senate Votes to Terminate Trump's Emergency Tariffs on Canadian ImportsThe 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... 100
Reposted by Andrew WinstanleyDoug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 28/10/2025UN 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.comWorld’s climate plans fall drastically short of action needed, analysis showsRecent plans submitted to UN by more than 60 countries would cut carbon by only 10%, a sixth of what is needed 48241
Reposted by Andrew WinstanleyJared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 07/05/2025Why yes! 🔗 www.commongroundpolitics.ca/albertan-ori... 58520
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Traditional 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. 000
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Why 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. 121
Reposted by Andrew WinstanleyDr. Tea, Cake, & Revolution. @witwarrior.bsky.social · 28/10/2025And now, even though America’s ludicrous, dangerous predicament is apparent to the whole world, there’s actually talk of Farage (Farage!) becoming Prime Minister. 2338
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 28/10/2025More 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). 020
Reposted by Andrew WinstanleyCheryl 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 NewsFormer deputy premier of Alberta, Thomas Lukaszuk, started his campaign as a counter to separatists wanting a referendum on Alberta independence. 14371127
Andrew Winstanley @andrewwinstanley.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Let’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. 000