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Groups push back on Alberta’s strategy to deal with inactive oil and gas wells as plan moves forward | CBC Accessibility A band of advocate groups are pushing back on the province's current plan to manage its inactive and aging oil and gas infrastructure.

Bit of a deeper dive on the growing push back to #Ableg’s so-called Mature Asset Strategy: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Interesting (and not too technical) on the application of Borys v CPR and Imperial Oil Ltd, 1952 CanLII 337 (AB CA), aff’d 1953 CanLII 414 (UK JCPC) and how petroleum may be produced.

"While Canadians fear the hypothetical threat of becoming the 51st state, Indigenous Peoples in Canada have lived through generations of sustained assault on their sovereignty."

The last time Alberta proposed to subsidize O&G’s closure liabilities, ScotiaBank warned that it flew in the face of “the core capitalist principle that private cos shld take full responsibility for the liabilities they willingly accept”.

Indeed. Yet it’s the same in O&G jurisdictions everywhere.🤔

Actually if the Panel accepts that the Charter applies to universities, they might also have noted that it guarantees *substantive* equality and protects affirmative action programs in S 15(2).

Congrats on selling out this event! It's good to see the interest In closure liabilities.

A fascinating (in the details) & depressing post about just how ineffective & captured-by-industry the Alberta Energy Regulator is. Another overwhelming pattern of regulatory failure in the oil & gas sector revealed, failure that Albertans will pay for with their wallets & health for generations.

Solidarity from law profs down highway 2. That this reprehensible and dangerous action by U of A was apparently triggered by conservative media is appalling. The “protection” rationale trotted out by U of A (see also: forceful takedown of campus protests) is baseless and must be challenged.

And not only this. Anyone who saw the Premier try to defend the ban on trans health care the other day heard her say “babies” over and over, as if creating more Albertans should be every youth’s life goal and purpose. The Handmaids Tale was not just a banned book, it’s our reality here now. #abpoli

Opinion: Who counts as 'real people'? Premier Eby’s comment perpetuates legacy of erasure Aboriginal title decisions, including the landmark Cowichan decision, are an affirmation of justice long delayed.

Hands up to colleagues at UVic and UBC, taking on this troubling narrative. vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

This is the 4th and final post in our series on the Dickson case; this one examines the dissent on ss 25 and 15 of the Charter. While it appears to flow from concerns about gender equality, @roberthamilton.bsky.social, @jwatsonhamilton.bsky.social and I are critical of the dissent's approach.

The AB gov’t appealed the injunction against trans health care bans, but is now bypassing its opportunity to argue the reasonableness of *all* its anti-trans laws via the notwithstanding clause. This reveals a lack of confidence in its claim that it is “protecting” trans and gender diverse youth.

@mark-carney.bsky.social @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social
#cdnpoli
See esp at para 246 - 250 - obligations of 3rd states incl Canada

Glad to see this up on what seems like a fully functional ABlawg site.
This post shd be of wide interest since it deals with how an Australian coal mining company was able to manipulate AER decision-making to shield the company’s expansion project from public review.
#abpoli #cdnpoli #ableg

White House doubles down on Trump’s claim about domestic violence ‘Things that take place in the home, they call crime,’ Trump said Monday. ‘They’ll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say, ‘This was a crime scene....

So apparently one can walk to a restaurant safely now in DC, but not to one's own kitchen, but the latter doesn't matter because it's just a made up crime anyway. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Back to the early 1980s when a husband beating his wife up was only a "civil matter" and a husband could rape his wife with impunity because, after all, she said "I do" at the altar. 🤬

I post a lot on ABlawg. Some of it pretty dry & arcane oil & gas law
But this is far more imp & shd be of wider interest. It deals with how an Aussie coal mining company was able to manipulate AER decision-making to shield the company’s project from public review. #abpoli
ablawg.ca/wp-content/u...

The words that accompany these pictures are better than most at describing the genocide in a very personal way. They are heartfelt and heartbreakingly painful to read. I am sure they will be haunting.

Makes you wonder who would have an interest in shutting @ablawg.bsky.social down, even temporarily.

A great post of the damage to Canadian privacy in Bill C-2.
I would add a smaller complaint: part 15 of Bill C-2 misappropriates the phrase 'Access to Information' in the new 'Supporting Authorized Access to Information Act'. (1/4)

The Gaza Tribunal - Day One YouTube video by Project for Peace & Justice by Jeremy Corbyn

I urge you to listen to this. It is disturbing but it is necessary.
Testimony to the Gaza Tribunal from Dr Nick Maynard.
The attacks of the state of Israel on health facilities in Gaza are not self defence but they are evidence of genocide.
Starts at 25.10. #cdnpoli
@mark-carney.bsky.social

This is awful. Shame on them! Note that the engagement period for ADAP is still open. The survey is here: your.alberta.ca/adap/surveys... Tell them how disgusting this is. #abpoli #abgov

via reddit....

If you are in front of politician ask them to complete this sentence: "Trans rights are..."

#abpoli #cdnpoli

'Vicious compliance': Alberta premier decries Edmonton Public Schools' banned book list | CBC News Alberta Premier Danielle Smith slammed the Edmonton Public School Board Friday morning for its banned book list, which features more than 200 titles.

No one could have predicted this.

Actually, my colleague Shaun Fluker did: ablawg.ca/2025/07/15/n... #ableg #cdnpoli

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

One point to note as we are working on a post about the dissent on the ss 25 & 15 issues: the majority's recognition of the overriding role of gender-based equality in ss 28 &35(4) sharply contrasts with the dissent's reluctance to discuss any role for either, notwithstanding their text & history.

This is the 3rd in a series of blog posts on Dickson v Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, including a look at how the SCC majority judgment on ss 25 & 15 of the Charter is being applied by lower courts. Great working with @jwatsonhamilton.bsky.social and @roberthamilton.bsky.social on this one!

Well, somebody has to rake the leaves so the smoke doesn't bother the US president.

In the English common law tradition, children were never formally the property of their parents. It was fathers who had legal & financial control over their children, & the mothers of their children, until the early 19th century - a feature, not a flaw, for those right-wing groups, I'm pretty sure.

Rightwing ‘parents’ rights’ groups gain ground in Canada as Alberta book bans target LGBTQ+ titles Two such groups claim they persuaded Alberta to institute sweeping public school book ban

Alberta makes the international news again for another harmful attack on its citizens. Action4Canada & Parents for Choice in Education (PCE), take credit for precipitating the UCP’s book ban, a ban based on the idea that "our kids are our property."
#ableg

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

The actions and words of the Kool-Aid drinkers participating in this charade are worse than absurd, because they won't be the ones to pay with their lives in the destruction that in all of these ongoing conflicts.