An online fund-raising campaign organized by a person associated with the Maverick Party and other western separatist causes has raised more than $1.6 million in a week to bankroll highway disruptions by truckers angry at Ottawa for imposing a vaccine mandate on cross-border essential workers. The “Freedom Convoy 2022” campaign
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Alberta Politics: Not much edification in yesterday’s COVID-19 newser as Premier Kenney and officials ‘filibuster’ the hard questions
There was little informative or edifying about the mostly successful effort by Premier Jason Kenney and three of his senior health care enablers to run out the clock on reporters’ questions at yesterday’s COVID-19 news conference. Facing not only the potential for difficult questions about the chaos in Alberta’s schools
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Is our atmosphere critical infrastructure? The Canadian government responds
Tuesday, November 10, 2015 Recently we received a series of replies from the Canadian government to our suggestion that the global atmosphere was critical infrastructure, at least as essential to our national security as pipelines and highways.We learned that Public Safety Canada recognizes that climate change can have a huge
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Dear PM: Destruction of our atmosphere undermines Canada’s security
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 In this era of heightened concerns about national security, we invite you to read the following open letter to Prime Minister Harper that makes a simple point: Our global atmosphere is “critical infrastructure” and disruption of it “undermines the security of Canada.” If you agree, join
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