Patrick Canning 🇨🇦
Climate law & litigation. Lawyer, husband, girl dad.
Every inch of the Earth is worth fighting for, as are democracy & human rights.
Work: patrickccanning.com
Climate law blog: feeltheheat.blog
LLM (Lewis & Clark). Never legal advice
- That's the real point - trump is building an apartheid state.
- View from a white South African journalist on #AfrikanerGate “what Trump and his lackeys, several of whom are ex-South Africans, are trying to build is apartheid. That’s the aim. So it stands to reason that these Afrikaners will feel right at home.”
- Very useful climate report thread to bookmark..
- Key Climate Reports - 2025 🧵 www.globalwater.online/globalwater/...
- Not sure about the USA, but in Canada when an officer does something outside of their lawful authority they lose the protection of the law, so an assault becomes an assault again.. See Figueiras v. Toronto (Police Services Board), 2015 ONCA 208, a civil suit for battery re the G20 in Toronto.
- A visitor at work today! 💚
- And yet just to the north, in British Columbia, our faux-left BCNDP are gleeful about gutting environmental regulatory processes to "protect" us from this moment..
- Washington state filed suit today (5/9/25) alongside 14 other states to challenge the president’s fake “energy emergency,” declared to line the pockets of Big Oil by handing out free passes to pollute our environment. www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-re...
- Nature is amazing.
- Thank you to all the Mothers, way back to the first ameoba, who got us this far. Especially those alive today, a very tough time to be a mother. ❤️❤️❤️
- A Canadian EV..
- Y'see, it's always been about this. Big Oil funded the far right and christian nationalism, all leading to this. In a world run by Russia and the USA/Trump Regime there will be none of this "climate" nonsense.
- great question..