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My book, Good Faith in Contract Law, has just been published: lnkd.in/gYhC3fV3
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According to former Canadian deputy prime minister and finance minister Chrystia Freeland, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick accused Canada of acting like Ukraine and threatened to send US troops across the border unless Ontario Premier Doug Ford abandoned his proposed 25% surcharge on electricity exports to the US, a retaliatory measure against Trump's tariffs on Canadian goods.
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NEW: The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter.
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Genuinely very funny the second this hit, the amount of Alberta separatist accounts fell off the face of the earth, lmfao
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The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.
The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.
Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
Dolly Parton’s passing has hit me hard tonight. My grandmother asked me to sing Dolly’s In the Sweet By and By at her funeral. We had a shared culture once, Canadians and Americans. I hope we still do.
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They’ve introduced the acronym SHAPE (Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts for People and the Economy) due to the success of STEM and it doesn’t really work because “women in SHAPE” sounds like a comment on our bodies.
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The rest of @michaelpforan's talks should go ahead.
Freedom of speech is a fundamental academic freedom and it must be upheld. Equally, legitimate and lawful protest has an important place in university life. The task is to maintain both.
Especially at events open to the public like this, it is an important Oxford tradition that any disagreement is expressed in a civil and respectful way.
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Yes sure, that's why he was quoted by the Supreme Court in one of their most significant judgments of the century and then got a job at Oxford as an Associate Professor at the age of 31.
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It's very disappointing that shouting and pulling silly stunts rather than engaging in reasoned discussion is still being permitted to shut down teaching and learning in a leading UK university.
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Amazing night!! Huge congratulations to all the players, team,staff and everyone connected to the club! 44 years since the last taste of European silverware!
Special shout out to Boubacar Kamara who has been out injured but is such an integral part of our team and helped lay the foundations of this success.
UTV! 💪🏻❤️ VTID
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The head of Europe's central bank just went on record and said financial markets don't understand what they're in for (Save this).
This is Christine Lagarde saying the damage is already done, and most people have no idea.
Here is what she actually said.
The US and Israel struck Iran on and within days, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow chokepoint that carries roughly 20% of the world's oil and natural gas.
Markets shrugged and investors assumed it would blow over fast but Lagarde says that assumption is dangerously wrong.
She told The Economist that technical experts are not talking about months for a recovery, they are talking about years.
The infrastructure, extraction, refineries, distribution networks has already taken damage that cannot simply be rebuilt on a short timeline.
Then she dropped a detail most investors have completely missed, Helium travels through the Strait of Hormuz.
Helium is the invisible ingredient inside every advanced microchip on earth.
It cools the machines, purges the chambers, and delivers the precision modern semiconductors depend on.
Qatar supplies roughly 35% of the world's commercial helium and Qatar's facilities have gone dark.
Helium spot prices have already surged past $450 per thousand cubic feet and most chip fabricators carry less than three months of inventory.
The world is building AI data centers at record speed, and the raw material that makes those chips possible is suddenly scarce.
Meanwhile, Brent crude has already hit $99 a barrel, with earlier spikes past $120 and gasoline in the U.S. has jumped over 30% since the war began.
Iraq has cut 1.5 million barrels per day while Saudi Arabia paused its largest refinery.
Europe is now staring at a second energy crisis with gas storage at just 30% capacityheading into this.
And the ECB, rather than cutting rates to soften the blow, is now considering hiking rates to fight the inflation surge.
This means a slow economy, rising prices and tightening monetary policy, all at once.
Lagarde's core warning is this, markets are not pricing in reality.
The man who manages $11 trillion just said two words that should terrify every person on the planet.
"Global recession."
Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the largest asset manager in human history sat down with the BBC and laid out the scenarios.
Fink told the BBC there are only two possible outcomes for the global economy right now.
His exact words: "There's not going to be an outcome that's somewhere in the middle."
Outcome one is that Iran gets reintegrated into the global community, sanctions ease and Iranian oil and Venezuelan oil flood back into markets.
Then the oil drops below $40 a barrel, the world gets relief.
Outcome two is that Iran remains a threat, the Strait of Hormuz stays disrupted and the standoff stretches on for years.
Oil stays above $100 and pushes toward $150.
The result? A "stark and steep global recession."
Why does $150 oil collapse the world economy? Because oil is embedded in everything.
Food production, shipping, manufacturing, heating., fertilizer, chemicals and plastics.
When oil spikes, prices spike across every single category of human life.
Central banks raise rates to fight inflation, businesses freeze investment and consumers stop spending.
Also, jobs disappear, GDP craters and the cycle feeds itself.
There is no bailout for this and no rate cut fixes an energy shock.
Fink also made a point that high oil prices are a "very regressive tax."
The wealthy absorb higher energy costs while the poor cannot.
This hits grocery bills, rent, and transportation everything the bottom half of the global population depends on to survive.
The market is still pricing in hope, a resolution, a deal, a ceasefire.
Fink is pricing in reality, two extremes, and the clock is running.
Pay attention to this one.
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Really funny to see this email become LinkedIn management hustle porn when it was actually a key piece of evidence in a legal case that cost Apple, Google, Adobe, and Intel $415M.
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Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations
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This is an unprecedented use of a power expressly confined to amending clerical mistakes from tribunal staff and party submissions. There is case law confirming that this power cannot be used to make substantive amendments to the judgment or to correct errors in citation.
