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Dennis Buchanan

@LawyerBuchanan

AB & ON labour/employment lawyer; peer-reviewed legal writer. I tweet law (not legal advice), politics, bad jokes, and dogs. He/him. Tweets are my views alone.

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Liberal politician gets ticketed for going 132kph on a highway - NATIONAL SCANDAL.

Conservative politician gets a thousand dollar fine and driving suspension for going 163kph - footnote in a local paper.

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I'm not overly fond of Toronto - I *did* leave, after all - but 'festering cancerous wound' might be putting it a little strongly.

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1/2 From the new ToS here... 'By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display ...

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Note: MOST of the sign was out-of-frame for the C-Span feed UNTIL he started grabbing for it. Then the camera zooms out to get a nice clean shot of the whole sign he's trying to take down. And then it goes viral.

This is what's known as the 'Streisand effect'.

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On these hot sunny days, the problem is ironically an excess of energy, in the form of heat we need to remove from our homes and businesses.

If only there were some way of harnessing that abundance of solar energy and using it power our A/C...

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I'm just waiting for some billionaire (probably a specific one, but could be any of them) to accidentally blow up the moon in a gender reveal stunt.

(I suppose the climate crisis only really matters if you assume we're not going to destroy ourselves even more spectacularly.)

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The UCP claimed the NDP was 'fearmongering about blackouts and price spikes' when they cancelled the AESO recommended transition to a capacity market in 2019.

The UCP also admitted there would be price spikes but said it was a 'desirable feature'.

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