Mark Le Blanc

Biz minded lawyer trying to evolve the biz of law. Husband, father, skier, hockey player, fly fisherman - all happily. Views are my own - always.

[Mark Le Blanc @markaleblanc]

For my Twitter/X community. Moving to Bluesky. Find me there.

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Love this!

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

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This is absurd. The players on this team make $30-$55 M and live in luxury hotels/mansions. Non-pro athletes might make $30-$55 K and scrape to get by for years. The IOC needs to deal with this. IMO, no pros over 21. Yes, China + will abuse it. So what! https://t.co/2crtVTofQy?

[Mark Le Blanc @markaleblanc]

Not really sure what to say…. Team Canada’s Phil ‘Wizard’ Kim wins the first-ever gold medal in men’s breaking at the Paris Olympics. https://t.co/NgcOV1TYVD

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Wow!

[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

BREAKING: Trump is BACKING OUT OF THE DEBATES. He is RUNNING SCARED.

[Mark Le Blanc @markaleblanc]

CANLIF TO 2024. And, so it begins.

[Mark Le Blanc @markaleblanc]

Thanks for sharing. Helpful to know.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

It appears that the man who self-immolated (set himself on fire) in front of the Trump Trial at the Manhattan courthouse was a man named Max Azzarello.

Max doesn't appear to have done this because of the Trump trial, but rather because he is a conspiracy theorist who thinks that there is a plan by Peter Thiel and wealthy individuals to screw us over using crypto currency.

Note that this is happening on the day of the Bitcoin Halving. Once again this has nothing to do with being conservative or liberal, and everything to do with being mentally unstable. Videos of Max are below:

[Mark Le Blanc @markaleblanc]

@jordan_law21 Doing it right now.

[Mark Le Blanc @markaleblanc]

Afternoon delight. Well, the PG version. Love the Bodum. ⁦@jordan_law21⁩

[Mark Le Blanc @markaleblanc]

@jordan_law21 I could not agree more. Simply the best ‘tool’ in our house.
I love the zen of using it. Grinding, smelling, boiling, pouring, the foam, the wait, the press, and of course the coffee.

[Christopher Byrne 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @CBinVAN]

Poilievre, who never had a job in his life that wasn't funded by taxpayers, mocking the CBC comedian for "being paid for by taxpayers" is the most tone deaf comment by a politician in the history of Canadian politics, and it's not close.
#NeverPoilievre #BaloneyFactory

[Colin S. Levy @Clevy_Law]

Something every in house lawyer should know. Your colleagues don't want to read a page long memo. They want to know, stated clearly and succinctly, how they can proceed and what the best way to proceed is.

[ronfriedmann @ronfriedmann]

KPMG Looks to Beat Big Law at AI by Leveraging Size and Capital
@RoyWStrom https://t.co/qSDlgqsehr
Even if #LLM turns out to be transformative, and I am skeptical about that, it's not obvious to me the #Big4 scale advantage is that compelling

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Mark Le Blanc @markaleblanc]

Yep. Like all businesses. When in doubt, hire the Big 4 and CYA.

[Mitch Kowalski @MEKowalski]

Why in the world would anyone think any of the Big Four is the right group of people to create this...?

[Mark Le Blanc @markaleblanc]

Hilarious!!

[Mark Le Blanc @markaleblanc]

@RachelNotley As for one ex-Albertan,please run federally. We are in desperate need of frank and honest political leaders like you.
I selfishly implore you to jump in.
FWIW, I have never voted NDP, but would vote for you. I do not believe I am alone in this sentiment.

[Mark Le Blanc @markaleblanc]

This is a great example of poor regulation to ‘fix’ the wrong issue. Inevitably, there will be further regulation to fix the fix, and on it goes. It happens all the time. https://t.co/H7B3yPsLHW?

[Mark Le Blanc @markaleblanc]

Go 70’s.

[Colin Lachance @colinlachance]

My tv viewing options this very moment are an embarrassment of riches

[Erin O'Toole @erinotoole]

The scar of the Humboldt Broncos tragedy will not heal from the deportation of Mr. Sidhu considering the profound remorse and responsibility he has shown following this terrible accident.

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