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I keep thinking about how many lawyers must've worked on these pleadings and yet this utter ethical failure of an argument made it in there...

This image shows gauges with the Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025 Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right: Canada: HIGH - 9.4 Alberta: SEVERE - 15.1 British Columbia: HIGH - 7.2 Manitoba: VERY HIGH - 13.9 New Brunswick: VERY HIGH - 14.0 Newfoundland & Labrador: HIGH - 7.9 North: VERY HIGH - 11.1 Nova Scotia: VERY HIGH - 14.3 Ontario: HIGH - 8.2 Prince Edward Island: HIGH - 8.8 Quebec: HIGH - 8.7 Saskatchewan: VERY HIGH - 14.5 A text box reads: "The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red)."

Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025

SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

Every year I delight in the switch to flannel sheets and every year I forget how hard it is to extract oneself from the flannel nest every morning.

Kwikwetlem First Nation filed a land claim in 2016 including the Riverview lands | Globalnews.ca The land in question covers several publicly-owned parcels in Port Coquitlam and Coquitlam, including the Riverview lands, but not private properties.

The Cowichan hysteria keeps getting dumber. Now cities are coming out to make statements about old land claims - if the news is going to cover it, they should mention it's been on the First Nation's website for nearly a decade. It's not some big secret. 1/2 globalnews.ca/news/1153572...

Call for papers:

The Canadian Law and Society Association is holding its annual meeting on 10-12 June 2026 at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Abstracts (along with a 1-page CV) should be submitted by 30 January 2026.

Details in English and French: www.acds-clsa.ca/uploads/1/2/...

The Oil Tanker Ban That Dims Alberta’s Pipeline Hopes | The Tyee The law is six years old. But federal promises to protect BC’s north coast from spills date back decades.

BC's premier compared Alberta/Sask oil pipeline plans to "a couple tourists wearing sandals wandering into the woods on the North Shore."

Here's a map of those deep, dark woods — my deep dive on 50 years of fighting oil transportation on BC's north coast. @thetyee.ca
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Rest assured that I am *deeply* offended on your behalf and will be writing to my local hellmouth rep.

Ok that makes a lot of sense.

I am peer reviewing an exceptionally good paper that is about events that took place this summer. How do people think/write so well and so quickly?

Agreed re. commodification.

Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:

AI Killed the Take-Home Essay. COVID Killed Attendance. Now What? Reclaiming Learning in an Age of Distraction and Artificial Intelligence

"We are teaching in the gap between two worlds."
This might be the single best thing I've read about teaching and AI. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/ai-killed-...

‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent

I've said it before and I will say it again many times, people using "AI" to design and deliver 'teaching' to students, to mark their work, and in this case to (!) generate literal voice overs are risking their jobs, and frankly they *should* be at risk if they do this sort of thing:

tiny black kitten wrapped up in a scarf being held by a passenger

oh yeah the new york city subway is so fucking scary, you never know what kind of weirdo you'll have to share a train with

At least I’ve never had to go to a department meeting with Larry Summers

wow. did anyone do this for other countries? I know that people in Canada were punished as well...

This is a wild ride, from surprise to anger to sadness. Fantastic storytelling about storytelling.

I've written a short piece on international law, fetishism, and ideology - now out on Legal Form. I suggest that international law is an ideological fetishism of international relations.

Masculinity is NOT in crisis. Masculinity is THE crisis.

But upon arriving at customs at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on Thursday with his wife, he says border agents took their passports and led them to an interview room. He said border agents told him they needed to determine whether he and his wife were a national security threat to Canada. “That never happened to me in my long life,” said Falk. Thursday also happened to be his 95th birthday, he said.

The government of Canada needs to directly address why a 95 year old human rights expert and former UN Special Rapporteur was treated as a threat to national security for coming to speak about Israeli genocide.

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RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project "GIVE WARMTH TO GAZA" this Winter season...

If you have any money to spare for people in Gaza as winter sets in, pls consider donating to the Sameer Project chuffed.org/project/1491...

Data Center Resistance Major tech companies – OpenAI (GPT), Google (Gemini), Anthropic (Claude), Meta (Llama), and xAI (Grok) – are spending heavily to boost the computing power of their respective large language artificial...

"Hyperscale data centers are a social and ecological disaster... The costs are too high even if the large language models they are designed to support were socially beneficial. But that is not the case." #ResistAI socialistproject.ca/2025/11/data...

"The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy."

Sadly I can't be in Chile in mid March but maybe you can? Check out this CFP for the Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography www.clg.place/apps/f59d75f...

YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | Ksi Lisims & PRGT Pipeline

The Canadien Government has made an ad about the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG terminal & PRGT Pipeline, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.

You can really see why this class of rich guy is so hopped up on AI and thinks we all desperately want it to write our emails.

The law professor in me seconds this emotion

postdoc/research fellow opportunity for aspiring law profs and legal scholars! If you want to spend some time in Toronto, we have two such open positions (good for up to 2 years) - deadline for applications is March 6, 2026 jackmanlaw.utoronto.ca/sites/defaul...

I will never stop being angry that this unqualified, unmotivated, and deeply unserious person won by four fucking votes.

Blue bin complaints to involuntary treatment: what councillors grilled Windsor MPs, MPPs about | CBC News During a meeting Windsor's mayor described as theatrical, council questioned upper levels of government on everything from blue bins to involuntary treatment.

"Borrelli, who said [she] couldn't remember the name of the agency, said that she can advocate on behalf of the region." 🤡
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