Month: September 2017

BC NDP to argue Trans Mountain pipeline expansion not in national interest:

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British Columbia’s new NDP government will argue its case against the expansion of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline by turning on its head the federal government’s contention that the project is in the national interest.

Lawyers for the province will be in court next week seeking to overturn the federal approval of Kinder Morgan Inc.’s project.

The B.C. legal strategy is being shaped by lawyer Thomas Berger, a former judge with a deep background in resource and Indigenous issues. He has crafted a simple argument: That Ottawa failed to evaluate the project’s risks to the marine environment, which is a breach of its obligation to consider the national interest.

Ottawa approved the controversial pipeline project last November, stating that the economic benefits of getting Alberta’s landlocked oil resources to tidewater are in the national interest. But Mr. Berger will argue that the federal cabinet did not give equal and independent consideration to the environmental and economic risks British Columbia and its people would bear.

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Orange Shirt Day Inspired By A Girl Who Couldn't Wear Hers:

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Phyllis Webstad was six-years-old when the new orange shirt she excitedly chose for her first day of school was stripped off her back. She never saw it again.

It was the early ‘70s and Webstad was the third generation of her family to attend St. Joseph’s Residential School in Williams Lake, B.C. Most people knew it as The Mission.

She was a kid. She didn’t know that merely being born an indigenous child surrendered her to an education system designed to break down her identity.

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Orange Shirt day is on September 30th all across Canada.

Orange Shirt Day is Today.

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Margaret Hodge, Mrs. John B. Bayard (1780). Charles Willson Peale (American, 1741-1827). Oil on canvas. Milwaukee Art Museum.

Margaret was the mother of Margaret Bayard Smith (1778-1844), an American author of novels, short stories, and articles. Her literary reputation, however, comes primarily from a collection of her letters and notebooks written from 1800 to 1841 and published in 1906 by Gaillard Hunt as The First Forty Years of Washington Society.

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Speak! Speak! (1895). Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896). Oil paint on canvas. Tate.

Millais’s son J.G. Millais, locates the scene in Ancient Rome: ‘It is that of a young Roman who has been reading through the night the letters of his lost love; and at dawn, behold, the curtains of his bed are parted, and there before him stands, in spirit or in truth, the lady herself, decked as on her bridal night, and gazing upon him with sad but loving eyes.’

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My pal Tim Wu, a copyfighting attorney and law prof, is working on a new project to help authors retain control over their copyrights instead of assigning them to publishers, academic institutions, and other organizations, to stop copyrights from piling up into huge stockpiles controlled by greedy dinosaurs like the RIAA.

https://boingboing.net/2007/10/01/keep-your-copyrights.html

Oops: Jason Kenney lets UCP membership lapse, gets waiver to run for leader:

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I just…

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The Convalescent (1874). Jules Emile Santin (French, 1829-1894). Oil on canvas. Bury Art Gallery, Museum & Archives.  

This work offers a glimpse of late nineteenth century French attitudes towards illness, interior design and what were considered suitable occupations for women, i.e., needlework, reading and music. A woman sits languidly in a chair with an open book on her lap. On the organ behind her is the musical notation for a piece of music entitled Primavera.