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.”
- The health secretary of the United States, who is setting the agenda for the nation’s critical public health agencies, went swimming in a creek contaminated with sewage runoff and harmful bacteria. That’s the kind of risk he takes with his own health. Imagine what he’s willing to with yours.
- the difference being - he has the money for private care whatever comes from his reckless choices.
- Thank you Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social, for listening and for restoring our Ministry.
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View full threadIt was announced before energy, defence, and immigration. It’s a good day.
- Nice to see that he can "get the message."
- You lost your job! But that's good, I'm glad he did the right thing
- My teenage daughter just observed that if you get out of a car holding jumper cables you become a magnet for Helpful Men.
- There's a lot of disappointing things to learn! That said, jumping cars is fun. I jumped many on a road trip in 2010, across Canada and down to Long Beach, including for some dudes outside LA who were clearly dangerous criminals.
- With cover, as usual, from Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin decides he can simply ignore the European demand that he agree to a 30-day-ceasefire. As usual, Trump is the ace up his sleeve. www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/ukra...
- But if Putin doesn't do it, then Europe will supply arms to Ukraine?
- 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.
- From the headnote.. "Torts — Battery — Police officer's actions in stopping demonstrator on public street and requiring him to submit to search in order to proceed not falling within scope of common law police power — Officer grabbing and pushing demonstrator — Officer committing tort of battery.."
- you can't bring a civil suit against someone if you can't identify them.
