Michael Byers
Michael Byers is a Canadian legal scholar and non-fiction author.
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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:
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
Thanks for both the oped and the recommendation. I'll watch The Good Canadian now.
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.
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.
Le Collège de France, where I'm speaking at a conference on property rights (or not!) in Outer Space.
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
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.
If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.
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.
With many thanks to hosts @heikekrieger.bsky.social and Helmut Aust and their amazing team at the Free University of Berlin.
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
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
"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
"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
Reposted by: Michael Byers
Tagging a military institution, "Department of War," doesn't sound very Nobel Peace Prize'ish...
Reposted by: Michael Byers
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
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.
I'll be in Ottawa next month, speaking at this timely conference.
Registration is free for both on-line and in-person attendees.
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
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 event is sold-out, but please check our website for other events this Fall! www.saltspringforum.com
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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?
This results in more people being stranded halfway, leading to fear, panic and, ultimately, an embarrassing rescue.
So, you ask, how do I know?
by Michael Byers — Reposted by: Julia M. Wright
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.
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
by Adele Perry — Reposted by: Michael Byers
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
Air Canada suspends plans to resume operations as flight attendants defy back-to-work order | CBC News
Air Canada says it has suspended plans to resume limited operations after the union representing the airline's flight attendants said Sunday it will defy a federal back-to-work order for binding arbit...
www.cbc.ca
The Carney government should make payment for all work, including during boarding and deplaning, a necessary outcome of the binding abitration.
Ottawa orders binding arbitration after Air Canada flight attendant strike grounds fleet
Airline said Saturday it had been reducing its 700 daily flights since Wednesday strike notice, anticipating 130,000 customers affected
www.theglobeandmail.com
U.S. foreign policy is directed by whoever spoke with Donald Trump last.
Live Updates: Trump Backs Plan to Cede Land for Peace in Ukraine
www.nytimes.com
