I’ve always considered it a massive privilege to get to post on ABlawg, but over the past few years I’ve also gotten to join Jennifer Koshan & David V. Wright (and others) as co-editor, and it is just the best — and this blog is a good example of why.

New Post: Original Powers: Reviving the Federal Disallowance Power to Combat Anti-Trans Legislation

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“What many people don’t realize is that fashion is on the cusp of becoming the cash cow of the oil and gas industry.”

Modern clothing has a plastics problem. Here’s how we got here – and what we can do about it. theglobeandmail.com/life/style/art…

Here I weigh in on Alberta’s drought crisis and why it’s so difficult for us to wrap our heads around this new reality. #drought UCalgary Geography Schulich Engineering thenarwhal.ca/alberta-drough…

Global electric car sales are on track to grow strongly again this year, reaching about 17 million

With more than 1 in 5 cars sold worldwide in 2024 set to be electric, the rise of EVs is transforming the auto industry & the energy sector

More from International Energy Agency: iea.li/3Us3ZYF

Danielle Smith's public justification for demanding approval of federal research grants and intervening for 'balance' at Alberta universities:
1) newspaper column about a Nova Scotia business prof
2) newspaper story about a Quebec chemistry prof
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Interesting. Oil demand forecasts for this year.

If you're a consuming country, you think demand will grow slowly.

If you're a producer, you think demand will grow much faster.

Danielle Smith/ AB oil/gas CEOs are aligned with OPEC.

Be wary of bullshit re oil/gas future.

Epigraph to Orwell's Roses, because it's such a brilliant reminder that warnings are not prophesies of doom: their premise is that we are deciding the future with what we do or fail to do in the present. That we have choices.

Danielle Smith says she may create new Alberta research programs to provide more ideological 'balance' at universities.
UCP has, after all, already created two companies to pump out the research it wants to see:
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The article we wrote on our research that debunks the Alberta UCP's claim that the federal government is unfairly distributing funding to 'liberal' disciplines has been reprinted by the Canadian Press and is being distributed nationally.
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It’s been one year since Alberta released its emissions plan. The gvt has released no details on how it will reach net-zero 2050, nor completed assessments to reduce the emissions of various industries, nor established promised consultation tables theglobeandmail.com/business/artic… #ableg

The GoA has just released the much-heralded water sharing non-agreements. They're a bit of a joke.
Read the first few paragraphs. How many times can you say 'this agreement is not really an agreement'. 1/
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“When the truth offends, we lie and lie and lie…”

A bit dramatic, sure, but as party politics trump academic & scientific integrity in #ableg , worth recalling how that played out in other places, in other times:

Just in: A Polish citizen allegedly working with Russia’s military intelligence agency has been arrested on suspicion of aiding Moscow in a plot to assassinate Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to Ukrainian and Polish authorities. ft.com/content/881900… via Financial Times

Thank you so much to David Moscrop for writing this incredibly flattering review of Kenneyism in The Tyee.

It’s extremely humbling when something you put so much work into resonates with your peers.

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Here is an ABlawg post with co-author Jennifer Koshan examining how the different judgments in the recent SCC Dickson case used the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) to support (or not) their reasoning. 1/

New Post: The Dickson Decision, UNDRIP, and the Federal UNDRIP Act

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Has a similar statement been issued by the President of U Calgary?

'This legislation has the potential to impact the U of A significantly. In 2023, the university received more than $223 million in research investments from the federal government, more than one-third of our total annual research revenue'
#abpoli #cdnpoli

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I'm going to follow this w/ interest. Even odds it turns out to be a boondoggle of delay, duplication, & uncertainty, inadvertently making the case for robust & predictable EA processes: #cdnpoli #hwy413

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