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Happy Friday from NeunerPate! ☀️ We’re looking forward to a great weekend ahead — everyone please stay safe at the parades this weekend and laissez les bon temps rouler! 🎭 • • #NeunerPate #AttorneysAtLaw #LegalCounsel #CorporateLitigation #BusinessLaw #Aviation #MaritimeLaw #EnvironmentalLaw #ClassAction #Municipalities #Appeals #EmploymentLaw #PersonalInjury #WorkersComp #ProductLiability

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Today we commemorate Remembrance Day. Lest we forget those who have served, and those who are serving our great country now. More news here: https://lnkd.in/dJV4DWH #RemembranceDay #FreightForwarding #Australia #FreightFowarderQuoteOnlineAU #FFQOAU

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After a series of many unfortunate events, I’m excited to say that we are making significant progress to address long standing issues that the sight loss community and I have faced when travelling by air. As I said when CNIB launched its new strategic plan, “no longer will we wait for change. Now, we demand it”. As many of you have seen, I have not been shy in sharing the egregious issues I have faced in airports, through airport security, and with airlines and rideshare and taxi companies. But thankfully, I think we are starting to turn a corner. I’m impressed by the commitment to collaboration that Canada’s air industry and regulators have shared over the past few weeks, as we have discussed the issues I have brought up, but more importantly, the systemic barriers that people who are blind, Deafblind or low vision face. While I’m encouraged by initial dialogue (with more details to be announced later) rest assured that CNIB and I will continue to keep their feet to the fire with the goal of creating a truly barrier-free Canada. If any other airlines, industry partners, or regulators who see this want to talk, we would be happy to connect. We are also meeting with a major rideshare company next month with the hope of achieving a similar amount of movement on that front as well. There will definitely be more to come on these issues. @Air Canada @CATSA @Greater Toronto Airport Authority #A11Y #Disability #AirTravel #Accessibility

And now this. It seems Aotearoa New Zealand is experiencing a similar right wing backlash against recognition, action and settlement of First Nations' claims against settler-colonial governments and peoples. The mantra that Yte's love "all lives matter" and all are equal citizens before the (colonial) law (lol). My previous post recited the graffiti "The colony will fall". This article here suggests colonies must fall to renegotiate a path forward that atones for the crimes of illegal occupation. I bring this back to tourism - Aotearoa is seen as a leader in "regenerative tourism". Do you think real regeneration is going to occur in a country that doesn't properly value and empower its First Nations? This reveals the weakness of regen thinking which often fails to engage in political analyses. We have to get very political to enact governance that is not going to be hijacked by Yte supremacists, plutocracy, landgrabbers and greedy.

With the rising sense of betrayal we see in the Maori community as the three-headed coalition animal rolls out a range of policies directly affecting our Maori-Pakeha cultural engagement, this needs calling out. I listened to NZ First’s deputy Shane Jones in his RNZ interview from yesterday Waitangi Day. He peppers his answers with words that on social media would be tags, giving a surface layer of credibility but underneath there is no substance. From the whole interview the only concrete justification I heard for a Treaty principles review was sidelong reference to there now being many more ethnic groups In New Zealand. Well, how much sense is there on taking an 1840 Treaty between two peoples - colonists and indigenous - and using that to update for today’s immigration situation? The new ethnicities arriving are not indigenous. The Treaty is an agreement about property, resources, and citizenship between the colonising Crown and the indigenous inhabitants. To suggest now that this founding document should be reviewed so Maori original inhabitants Treaty rights are mixed into a blancmange of recently arrived ethnic minority smells of disrespect. It also suggests other ulterior motives not being revealed. To those ready to comment that Treaty review is a good democratic step , let me be very clear. I have no argument at all with the idea of reviewing how Treaty principles are enacted - that should be BAU. But that is very different from saying the Treaty founding principles need revision. Given the several related policy moves by the coalition - winding back on Maori language, dismantling the Maori health authority, noises about Te Reo in education, talk of canceling Maori wards - it’s to be fully expected the response from the Maori community will be resistance. That is building to show a strongly united backlash. The feedback from Waitangi Day already shows the coalition as being defensive, on the back foot with a building sense of what’s-the-point? An opportunity for needed bridge-building wasted. It’s also about unneeded costs. The coalition made repeated campaign promises to haul back government spending. Have no doubt, any attempt to revise the Treaty will involve legal challenges to government. Changes that get passed will require numerous governments departments to update processes, business plans, operating procedures, published rules, guidelines, documents, staff training, etc. As a Pakeha New Zealander there may be many reasons to be critical of our cultural integration but when engaging overseas I am rightfully proud of how we have shown leadership in honouring the Treaty, the moves made to redress many historic injustices. We should be very careful about the real motives behind the calls from Act to wind back. Here a link to the Shane Jones RNZ interview referred to above. I invite any reader wanting to debate- listen to the podcast and see if you hear any real content. https://lnkd.in/gvexJcsR #treaty #maori

This Flag Day, our firm takes pause to reflect on the opportunities afforded to us by our country, our freedom, and the American Flag. 🇺🇸 • • #NeunerPate #AttorneysAtLaw #LegalCounsel #CorporateLitigation #BusinessLaw #Aviation #MaritimeLaw #EnvironmentalLaw #ClassAction #Municipalities #Appeals #EmploymentLaw #PersonalInjury #WorkersComp #ProductLiability

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Last year during this period, UNRWA joined the UN in celebrating the 7th UN Global Road Safety Week (who. int) The theme was Streets for Life #RethinkMobility. Held biennially in May and initiated in 2007, the UN Global Road Safety Week aims to increase awareness of the severity of road traffic injuries, with a particular focus on young people who are disproportionately affected. During this special week, in collaboration with the UN, we advocate for safer roads, improved regulations, and stronger traffic safety measures worldwide. Check the following related resources: Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030: https://shorturl.at/mOPV1 Road traffic injuries: https://shorturl.at/csKPZ #RethinkMobility #StreetsforLife #RoadSafety