@thetyee #ABDanielleSmithIsDangerouslyUnfitToLead and the corrupt #UPC too.
"UCP Tries to Change the Channel with ‘Drug Jails’ Announcement
Alberta announces two 150-bed centres where people will be held against their will for treatment."
"In 2025, watching the history unfolding south of the Canada-U.S. border, can we be confident that drug “treatment” will never be abused in Alberta as psychiatry was used to remove dissidents who openly contradicted official dogma from Soviet society during the years Leonid Brezhnev was leader? That could never happen here. Right?"
#UPC #Alberta #Abpoli #Canada #MentalHealth
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/02/25/UCP-drug-jails-announcement/
Alberta !!!
Feb 25, 2025
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Peter Guthrie, UCP Minister and Airdrie-Cochrane MLA, has resigned from Cabinet citing corruption.
The allegations against the UCP government are the most serious I’ve ever seen.
One down, more to go.
Including the Health Minister and Premier.
Keep the pressure on, Alberta."
“The UCP has killed the Alberta wage advantage,” said Gil McGowan, president of the Alberta Federation of Labour, which released Dr. Stanford’s report. "
#UPC #Alberta #DanielleSmith #NeverVoteConservative #Canpoli #CdnPoli
UPDATE: He resigned Today
Thank you @McRocker for the update and link
https://edmonton.citynews.ca/2024/12/17/edmonton-police-commissioner-step-down-mcdougall/
Alberta's UPC government is fine with this...? I thought Conservatives were against "remote working".
‘He should resign’: Edmontonians critical of police commissioner serving from Portugal"
#Alberta #UPC #DanielleSmith #CanPoli
https://edmonton.citynews.ca/2024/12/16/edmontonians-critical-of-police-commissioner/
I can’t even. I can’t accept that it was just ignorance that led to this unacceptable and offensive act towards a vulnerable elder.
“Alberta Health Services says it has taken a number of steps to better train staff, after a Pasqua First Nation man's braids were cut off and thrown away while he was in an Edmonton hospital.”
Here’s the Canadian Press story via CBC.
This ruling, explicitly about lawyers, seems equally to apply to patent attorneys acting as European Patent Litigators. It imposes strict standards on "independence" drawing on CJEU practice, but is out of step with much national practice. It concludes that in house lawyers cannot represent their employer at the UPC so that parties must be represented by external lawyers. I wonder if it will be upheld on appeal.
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics Core
Asymmetric Bethe Ansatz
Steven G. Jackson, Hélène Perrin, Gregory E. Astrakharchik, Maxim Olshanii
SciPost Phys. Core 7, 062 (2024)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCore.7.3.062
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Suppression of the superfluid Kelvin-Helmholtz instability due to massive vortex cores, friction and confinement
Matteo Caldara, Andrea Richaud, Massimo Capone, Pietro Massignan
SciPost Phys. 17, 076 (2024)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.17.3.076
The UPC Court of Appeal has unsurprisingly confirmed a rejection of a jurisdictional challenge by the Mannheim local division. A reasonable nexus of damage occurring within the jurisdiction is all that is required. It makes little difference that the infringement is indirect.
Why Danielle Smith might move Alberta ministries from Edmonton to UCP-friendly places
Premier muses on shifting population growth to small centres to help her party
Hint: City dwellers don't like her.
@gemelliz
#News #Alberta #DanielleSmith #UPC #Politics
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/danielle-smith-relocating-government-ucp-town-hall-analysis-1.7308422?cmp=rss
We don't often see patents about cold chain monitoring being litigated in our courts, so this revocation action at the UPC was interesting. A few procedural points have already emerged from this case, but this is the final first instance decision. Patent maintained with slight amendment.
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Conformal maps and superfluid vortex dynamics on curved and bounded surfaces: The case of an elliptical boundary
Matteo Caldara, Andrea Richaud, Pietro Massignan, Alexander L. Fetter
SciPost Phys. 17, 039 (2024)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.17.2.039
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Beyond universality in repulsive SU(N) Fermi gases
Jordi Pera, Joaquim Casulleras, Jordi Boronat
SciPost Phys. 17, 030 (2024)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.17.2.030
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics Core
Analytic thermodynamic properties of the Lieb-Liniger gas
Matthew L. Kerr, Giulia De Rosi, Karen V. Kheruntsyan
SciPost Phys. Core 7, 047 (2024)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCore.7.3.047
And more news from the UPC - tomorrow, on 27 June 2024, the UPC’s Milan (IT) section of the Central division will officially open its doors. The panel of judges for the #Milan section is as follows:
Presiding Judge: Mr. Andrea Postiglione
Judges: Ms. Anna-Lena Klein and Ms. Marije Knijff
This division will mainly deal with revocation actions of patents in class A of the international classification (human necessities), excluding SPCs
https://www.unified-patent-court.org/en/news/opening-milan-it-section-central-division
UPC confirms that opt out must name all owners of a European patent, or is ineffective. In this case meaning that a revocation action can proceed. It has always been a concern that a patentee will discover that their opt out was defective only when it is too late.
A subtle but important point - while the UPC has ordered language change into English in several cases, that is possible only when the patent was granted in English. Where as in this case the patent was granted in German, there is no legal basis for change of the language of proceedings into English.