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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | John Gordon |James G. Snell |Jacob Heilbrunn |Kate Andrews
The stock market, traditionally a leading indicator, entered correction territory last week. But does that indicate that a recession is coming? Well, it’s an old saying on Wall Street that the market has predicted ten of the last three recessions. Markets hate uncertainty. and no one knows how President Trump’s efforts to use American tariffs to force our trading partners to lower theirs will turn out.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | James G. Snell |Jacob Heilbrunn |Kate Andrews |Matthew Foldi
To the distress of many, Donald Trump’s senior advisor Kari Lake announced the discontinuation of federal funding for several iconic news outlets administered by the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), including Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty (RFE-RL) and Voice of America. These multi-language broadcasters are not simply remnants of the Cold War, nor are they “a giant rot and burden to the American taxpayer,” as Lake’s disgraceful announcement puts it.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Nicola Menaldo |James G. Snell
In recent months, a wave of lawsuits has swept across the
nation, targeting websites for allegedly violating state
wiretapping laws through their use of tracking software.
Despite none of these statutes explicitly addressing the use of
this ubiquitous technology—technology that offers significant
benefits to consumers—these claims continue to be filed. The
courts have been processing how to interpret wiretapping laws in
the age of modern internet technologies.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | DeFi Protocols |Janis Claire Kestenbaum |James G. Snell |Peter Hegel
After much anticipation, on November 8, the California Privacy
Protection Agency (CPPA) Board voted to advance proposed regulations for insurance, cybersecurity
audits, risk assessments, and automated decision-making technology
(ADMT) to formal rulemaking.
This comes over a year after the Board released its initial draft of the cybersecurity
audit and risk assessment regulations, which it subsequently revised for discussion.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | James G. Snell
Donald Trump has won his third presidential election and across Europe heads are exploding. This should not be the case. Many European leaders were briefed earlier this year that a Trump victory was more likely than not. But wishful thinking appears to have defeated grim experience in many minds and many civil service buildings.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | James G. Snell |Peter Hegel
On Friday, February 9, as the country collectively packed up and
prepared to head home for Super Bowl weekend, the Third Appellate
District of the California Appellate Court issued an Order granting the California Privacy
Protection Agency (the Agency) the ability to immediately enforce
regulations implementing the California Privacy
Rights Act (CPRA), which were finalized in March 2023. This
vacated a July 2023 court decision staying enforcement of the
regulations until March 29, 2024.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
lexblog.com | James G. Snell |Peter Hegel
On Friday, February 9, as the country collectively packed up and prepared to head home for Super Bowl weekend, the Third Appellate District of the California Appellate Court issued an Order granting the California Privacy Protection Agency the ability to immediately enforce regulations implementing the California Privacy Rights Act, which were finalized in March 2023. This vacated a July 2023 court decision staying enforcement of the regulations until March 29, 2024.
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Aug 1, 2023 | 
canadianenergycentre.ca | James G. Snell
The Nisga’a Nation and its partners in northwest B.C. have taken another step towards developing the proposed $10 billion Ksi Lisims LNG facility near Prince Rupert, adding to an emerging of floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) export facilities that can come online faster than land-based projects. Like Cedar LNG, another proposed FLNG project in B.C., the facility would be one the most significant Indigenous-led infrastructure projects in Canadian history.
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Jul 25, 2023 | 
canadianenergycentre.ca | James G. Snell |Deborah Jaremko
Canada should work with its allies and potential customers to receive credit for the global emissions reduction benefits of exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG), says a prominent Canadian energy advocate. The equivalent of all Canadian GHG emissions could be eliminated by helping Asia switch 20 per cent of its coal fired power stations to natural gas, says Shannon Joseph, chair of Energy for a Secure Future, citing a recent report published by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
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Jul 20, 2023 | 
canadianenergycentre.ca | James G. Snell
Canadian oil and gas exports rose significantly in 2022 and show little sign of abating despite a call by Canada’s minister of environment and climate change to ‘phase-out unabated fossil fuels.’Total exports in Canada rose 22.5 per cent in 2022, representing an increase of more than $142 billion, says a recent Statistics Canada report. Over half the increase – $76.9 billion – was driven by a major uptick in oil and gas exports.
