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Michael Byers 🇨🇦

@michael-byers.bsky.social

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Co-director, Outer Space Institute Chair, Salt Spring Forum UBC Professor Author, citizen, troublemaker He/him

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Michael Byers is a Canadian legal scholar and non-fiction author.

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Michael Byers 🇨🇦 @michael-byers.bsky.social · 4d

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Michael Byers 🇨🇦 @michael-byers.bsky.social · 8d

AI-driven killer-submersibles will change naval warfare.
Yet Canada is planning to spend more than $100 billion on 15 large surface ships.
My latest op-ed, as a gift article:

Canada’s new warships could be obsolete by delivery time

This country needs a navy that can adapt, survive and fight in the age of artificial intelligence

www.theglobeandmail.com

Michael Byers 🇨🇦 @michael-byers.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks for both the oped and the recommendation. I'll watch The Good Canadian now.

Michael Byers 🇨🇦 @michael-byers.bsky.social · 10d

Donald Trump gets played, again:

Netanyahu says he did not agree to Palestinian state as part of Trump Gaza plan, and IDF will remain ‘in most of territory’ – live

Israeli PM says ‘we turned the tables and isolated Hamas’, while Qatar says it will hold talks on the proposals with Hamas and Turkey later on Tuesday

www.theguardian.com

Michael Byers 🇨🇦 @michael-byers.bsky.social · 11d

Canada Post is losing money!
But so is the Canadian military.
Most Canadians don't use the post or the military very much, but they're both still essential services.

Michael Byers 🇨🇦 @michael-byers.bsky.social · 15d

Le Collège de France, where I'm speaking at a conference on property rights (or not!) in Outer Space.

Michael Byers 🇨🇦 @michael-byers.bsky.social · 20d

Check out the timely and important contributions from Steven Freeland, Robin J. Frank, Kiran Mohan Vazhapully and Ashna Lazatin in this new co-publication by the Outer Space Institute and Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

Shaping Space Governance: Strategic Reflections on Multilateralism, International Law, and the Role of Emerging States

This series brings together experts from space agencies, international organizations, and academia to explore the evolving dynamics of space governance.

www.asiapacific.ca

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 22d

1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC.

If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.

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Michael Byers 🇨🇦 @michael-byers.bsky.social · 24d

My commute comes with a view.

Michael Byers 🇨🇦 @michael-byers.bsky.social · 27d

I'm flying home after a wonderful conference with the @esil-sedi.bsky.social (European Society of International Law).

With many thanks to hosts @heikekrieger.bsky.social and Helmut Aust and their amazing team at the Free University of Berlin.

Michael Byers 🇨🇦 @michael-byers.bsky.social · 29d

No comment.

MDA chief executive made $35.7-million on company stock options before shares fell

Satellite manufacturer says CEO’s sale of shares was made in accordance with its insider trading policy

www.theglobeandmail.com

Michael Byers 🇨🇦 @michael-byers.bsky.social · 29d

Next up at the Salt Spring Forum: Ginger Gosnell-Myers, Chair of Greenpeace Canada!

Indigenous leader Gosnell-Myers at next Forum - Gulf Islands Driftwood

One of Canada’s most influential and action-oriented Indigenous leaders is the next guest of the Salt Spring Forum. Ginger Gosnell-Myers is a member of the Nisga’a and Kwakwaka’wakw nations and […]

gulfislandsdriftwood.com

Michael Byers 🇨🇦 @michael-byers.bsky.social · Sep 10

I was delighted to speak with Katharina Glaab, @jfmorin.bsky.social , Adam Bower, Xiao-Shan Yap and the rest of the NordSpace research team at their workshop in Reykjavik, Iceland, this morning!

NordSpace | NMBU | NMBU

What consequences does the development of space infrastructures in the High North have for the Arctic region?

www.nmbu.no

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Michael Byers 🇨🇦 @michael-byers.bsky.social · Sep 6

"Judith Gradwell, 80, who ... held a sign that read, 'I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action', is unafraid of being arrested. 'It doesn’t matter, I’ve got my sandwiches in my backpack,' she said."

Police make arrests at London Palestine Action ban protest

More than 1,000 people have pledged to risk arrest in demonstration billed as largest since group was proscribed

www.theguardian.com

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Michael Byers 🇨🇦 @michael-byers.bsky.social · Sep 6

"People don't understand how someone who has championed climate issues for 15 years can suddenly become prime minister of a G7 country and stop talking about climate change. Not a word about it. What's going on?"

Liberal MPs form environmental caucus as some want stronger climate focus from Carney | CBC News

As Liberal MPs prepare for a national caucus meeting in Edmonton next week, some are aiming to bring climate change to the forefront of the political agenda by creating a formal caucus to discuss the ...

www.cbc.ca

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Edge O. Erin @edgeoerin.com · Sep 5

Tagging a military institution, "Department of War," doesn't sound very Nobel Peace Prize'ish...

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · Sep 3

If the idea is to hear directly from perspectives that otherwise perplex us, whom else might they invite? Sergey Lavrov? Nigel Farage? Marine Le Pen? Tamara Lich?

Project 2025 mastermind invited to speak at Carney's cabinet meeting | CBC News

A prominent conservative figure in American politics and the mastermind behind Project 2025 — the infamous policy blueprint that proposed a drastic overhaul of the U.S. government — will speak to Prim...

www.cbc.ca

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Sep 2

Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.

Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · Sep 2

Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed.

There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea.

Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.

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Michael Byers 🇨🇦 @michael-byers.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'll be in Ottawa next month, speaking at this timely conference.

Registration is free for both on-line and in-person attendees.

Canadian Security Interests and Trump 2.0 – Centre for International Policy Studies

Canada's leading centre for analysis and debate of international affairs.

www.cips-cepi.ca

Michael Byers 🇨🇦 @michael-byers.bsky.social · Aug 28

The Salt Spring Forum welcomes John Vaillant, author of The Golden Spruce and Fire Weather, tomorrow night at ArtSpring.

The event is sold-out, but please check our website for other events this Fall! www.saltspringforum.com

The Salt Spring Forum

The Salt Spring Forum Unforgettable Discussions Learn More

www.saltspringforum.com

Michael Byers 🇨🇦 @michael-byers.bsky.social · Aug 25

Zip lines stretch on hot days.
This results in more people being stranded halfway, leading to fear, panic and, ultimately, an embarrassing rescue.
So, you ask, how do I know?

Michael Byers 🇨🇦 @michael-byers.bsky.social · Aug 23

As your fragile post-imperial ego requires!

Michael Byers 🇨🇦 @michael-byers.bsky.social · Aug 23

Will Canada be next?

Europe Is Finally Saying No to the F-35

Why are Spain & Switzerland ditching the F-35? It's not just cost. It's a revolt against the U.S. 'sustainment monopoly' over the jet.

nationalsecurityjournal.org

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Michael Byers 🇨🇦 @michael-byers.bsky.social · Aug 20

Dalhousie, the Air Canada of Canadian universities.

Faculty locked out at Dalhousie University in Halifax over contract dispute

Union says wages and school’s reliance on limited-term contracts are the main issues

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Michael Byers 🇨🇦 @michael-byers.bsky.social · Aug 18

Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in return for a security guarantee - provided by Russia, the US and UK in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, and violated by Vladimir Putin in 2014 and 2022.

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Michael Byers 🇨🇦 @michael-byers.bsky.social · Aug 18

Canadian Labour Congress throws its support behind the striking Air Canada flight attendents, putting Prime Minister Mark Carney in a very tough spot.

CANADA’S LABOUR MOVEMENT STANDS UNITED AGAINST GOVERNMENT VIOLATION OF WORKERS' RIGHTS | Canadian Labour Congress

Statement from Bea Bruske, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, following an emergency meeting of Canada’s Unions on the Air Canada Flight Attendants Strike ‘’Tonight, the heads of Canada’s uni...

canadianlabour.ca

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · Aug 17

It is as if Canada was asked if the right to strike extended to a largely female workforce, and answered not really. Good for CUPE for holding fast on this one. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/air-canada-flights-sunday-1.7611078