Karamveer Lalh

risk assessor — relentless heuristic optimizer — @ualbertascience @ualbertalaw @cpc_hq @ucpcaucus alum — occasional commentator — kafka esq

[Karamveer Lalh @KLalh]

New from me for CBA Law Matters:

No-Fault, No Lawyer, No Justice

How Alberta’s no-fault system reshapes access to legal representation and shifts the balance of power against seriously injured claimants.

https://t.co/sLrWEun8fG

[Karamveer Lalh @KLalh]

Seems like atm, consultants just tack on their proprietary systems on top of the weak party apparatus and hope that's enough. Party is basically starting from square one after every election. Hopefully Pierre's team can use this opportunity to make much needed investments.

[Karamveer Lalh @KLalh]

I'm not particularly doomer, but my hope is that, given the direction of the party, and the fact that the current government will last until late 2028, is that the CPC is funnelling the fundraising dollars into long term nuts and bolts improvements to the overall party apparatus.

[Anthony Koch @Anthony__Koch]

For all the talk about how Carney was a political neophyte and didn’t understand politics, he’s been on an absolute tear since becoming PM.

On every metric, the Liberals have been absolutely outclassing us across the board.

The CPC will never win Martel’s seat again.

[Karamveer Lalh @KLalh]

If there's a lesson to be learned from the last election it's that you as the opposition have much less power to fight the election you want to fight and have to be able to meet the moment.

[Anthony Koch @Anthony__Koch]

For all the talk about how Carney was a political neophyte and didn’t understand politics, he’s been on an absolute tear since becoming PM.

On every metric, the Liberals have been absolutely outclassing us across the board.

The CPC will never win Martel’s seat again.

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

Why are we talking about the need for Northern Shield pipeline? Michigan's governor and an allied environmental coalition has been trying to shut down Enbridge's Line 5 for years, which enters Ontario from a US/southern route.
https://t.co/ifWzYApFO9

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

The extinction of the dinosaurs is technically the highest ratio of birds killed with one stone.

[Colin Millar @Millar_Colin]

Stephen Eustáquio is the first ever No 7 who has represented Portugal to score a goal in a World Cup knockout game.

[Karamveer Lalh @KLalh]

@Charles_Reding The better question is whether or not the trouble of suing the contractor over a $750 claim is worth it.

[Howard Anglin @howardanglin]

A truly bizarre post.

First, the Charter is just not that old, and most of the judgments that laid the groundwork for the modern activist court are even younger (Re B.C. Motor Vehicle Act (1985); Oakes (1986); Morgentaler (1988)). You don't have to be Winston Smith probing the forgetful old prole for memories of pre-revolutionary Oceania to get a first-hand account of the pre-Charter revolutionary jurisprudence. Practicing lawyers and judges over 70 went to law school before the Charter.

Second, it is actually a *widely* studied area of law. There are hundreds of law journal articles about things like the pre-Charter implied bill of rights, the scope of the POGG power, federal paramountcy, and major pre-Charter decisions from Edwards to Roncarelli to Drybones. Many people have written about the ways in which the courts developed constitutional doctrine before the Charter, as they have in other countries that still don't have a constitutionally entrenched and judicially enforceable bill of rights, such as the UK, Australia, and NZ. This is a well-turned academic field.

Third, there's this neat trick for knowing what courts did in the past. They're called written judgements, which you can read to learn how courts thought and acted. The history of the law is not a primordial miasma concealing an unknowable history. It's all available with a few keyboard taps. And that's not even getting into the rich field of legal history, which has its own secondary literature on all this.

I'd briefly forgotten this cartoon history account existed, and regret this post was brought to my attention.

[Karamveer Lalh @KLalh]

@Prominent_Bryan There's no serious competition for the left flank so why not?

[Karamveer Lalh @KLalh]

@RoyceKoop Heck yes. You'll be a great MP

[Chase Passive Income @chasedownleads]

Spoke to a DoorDash driver the other day

He makes $200k a year delivering food

Incredible

Asked him how (seemed way too high)

He makes about 20 deliveries a day

Gets paid an average of $7 per delivery

That’s $35k a year

Plus he delivers on a bicycle so his profit margin is basically 100%

So where’d the rest of the money come from?

Last month he got hit by a truck and got a $165k insurance payout

Love that income hack

Might have to try doing DoorDash myself

[doomer @uncledoomer]

he really spent $700 on a herman miller chair thinking it would fix this

[A. Mando @AMandoSch]

Being a lawyer is saying "I just need to get through this hearing/deposition/other appointment this week and then things will calm down" for forty years and before you know it you are 70 years old telling people that you have been practicing law for 40 years with no Bar Grievances filed, and finally your reward arrives in the form of a heart attack or a stroke out at your work desk and the state Bar finally takes an action on your status but it's just to mark you "deceased."

[Karamveer Lalh @KLalh]

@howardanglin @arundeepyeg I would wonder if a Court would be brave enough to suggest that mandatory detention and involuntary treatment is an ameliorative program per section 15(2)

[Karamveer Lalh @KLalh]

@finseraste I would wonder if a Court would be brave enough to suggest that mandatory detention and involuntary treatment is an ameliorative program per section 15(2)

[Karamveer Lalh @KLalh]

This is a hilarious question. Whomever came up with it should get a bonus.

[Courtney Theriault @cspotweet]

BREAKING:

Premier Smith announces Alberta separation question for October 19th.

[Pubity @pubity]

An abandoned dog in Bolivia got adopted by Franciscan monks.

This once-stray pup is now lovingly called Friar Bigotón, Spanish for “Brother Whiskers”.

[Howard Anglin @howardanglin]

This seems to be a personal thing for the unfortunately aptly named Mr Johnson.