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Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 1d

Just putting this out there: When GTA6 is released, somebody should create a mod with a mission that involves union-busting at a videogame company.

Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed. My favourite quotation of all time is Pascal: "Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte."

(Loosely: "I have written you a long letter because I did not have time to write a short one.")

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Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, but then he wouldn't have made the minimum word/page count for the assignment.

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Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 3d

The Leafs never get that close.

Sure, they'll make you think that OTHER playoff rounds are in reach before snatching away hope in the worst way imaginable...

...but never the final.

Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 3d

Never mind that freak double play that ended Game 6...

Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 3d

That's the thing, the Jays have been REALLY effective at getting on base in both of these home games, but really weak at getting them home.

Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 3d

And by 'it', we mean: Do what Joe Carter said he was doing, and just try to bring the base runner in.

Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 3d

Kirk just needs a base hit to win it all.

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Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 3d

Vladdy, this is your chance to take your place in World Series history.

Go Blue Jays!

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Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 3d

The Jays' fielding has been something tonight.

Vladdy in particular has made a couple of good ones.

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Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 3d

After Jimenez showed bunt 4 times, then Clement stole, Wife asked: "So what happens now?"

Me: "Now he swings."

And oh boy, did he!

Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 3d

After Wroblewski hit his teammate, Springer hit Wroblewski.

These are hockey rules.

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Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 3d

Where's the penalty box in that stadium? Maybe we need to hand out a couple of five minute majors...

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Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not too worried about his financial health.

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Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 3d

Bo knows baseball!

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Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 4d

There's a certain resonance here to some of the fights before the civil war - where Southern states were mad because Northern states were unenthusiastic about sending back fugitive slaves.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d

A judge in New York State on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by Texas in the first legal challenge by a conservative state against shield laws intended to protect health care providers who send abortion pills to patients in states with abortion bans.

New York Judge Dismisses Texas Challenge to the State’s Abortion Shield Law

The lawsuit was filed against an Ulster County clerk who rebuffed an attempt to enforce a Texas judgment against a New York doctor for sending abortion pills to that state.

nyti.ms

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Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 4d

Some people watch scary movies on Halloween.

I plan to watch a 3 hour (or more) show featuring a terrifying baseball-bat wielding man named Shohei.

Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 4d

Just drove past a guy crouching behind a car while putting on a balaclava-style mask.

Any other day of the year, I'd find that very concerning.

Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 5d

Fun fact: The border through Lloyd is...wrong.

50 Ave is understood to be the border - the west side of the street is Alberta; the east side is Sask.

However, 110 degrees - where the border is supposed to fall - is actually about 200m east of there. Just east of 48 avenue (where it crosses 16).

Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 5d

My Substack Today: Why is Lloydminster on the border?
It comes down to politics and dividing the power of opponents.

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Why is Lloydminster On The Border?

The short answer...politics.

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Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 6d

I don't know that most of them would have thought about it in QUITE those terms...but yeah, basically.

The legal profession has a very large "do as I say, not as I do" phenomenon.

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Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 6d

Not so much a question of what law firm owners *believe* as what they *want*.

If the CBA were to start advocating for removing that exclusion, that's a large and influential part of their membership that would feel the CBA is acting directly against their interests.

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Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 6d

I haven't done a full breakdown here, but it would be interesting to consider the impact on Bill 2 if provisions of the Teaching Professions Act and the Public Education Collective Bargaining Act were declared ultra vires.

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Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 6d

Basically, by creating a framework whereby the ATA has no tools to pursue collective goals of teachers, the government has turned this creature of statute into, effectively, a management puppet.

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Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 6d

Yep. I question if this legislation undermines the constitutionality of the ATA altogether. The ATA is unusual as a creature of statute, which is only Charter compliant if it protects a meaningful framework allowing employees to pursue collective interests.

Which is no longer the case.

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Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 6d

Their loss, Canada's gain.