My plea to Canadaโs public sector workers and unions:
Reject the use of AI, and save the soul of the public sector.
thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/ai-is-dehumanization-technology.html
A call to reject the deployment and use of AI systems in Canada's public sector.thedabbler.patatas.ca
#Tesla is experiencing what #ElbowsUp means as sales drop to the point it has to stop importing cars to Quebec. Great work #Canada! ๐จ๐ฆ
"Teslaโs sales have fallen 87% in Quebec in the first quarter 2025 compared to the same period last year.
The critical Canadian market has been wiped out, and Tesla is no longer importing new vehicles.
Quebec is the leading EV market in Canada, with the highest adoption rate of new electric vehicles."
electrek.co/2025/05/28/teslas-โฆ
Teslaโs sales have fallen 87% in Quebec in the first quarter 2025 compared to the same period last year. The...Fred Lambert (Electrek)
On #voting: A single #vote has decided who will represent the people of #Terrebonne, Quebec, in #Canada 's House of Commons. 23,352 voted for one person, 23,352 for another, a further 14,415 for other candidates or invalid.
Two lessons: Your vote can make a difference in an #election. And First-Past-The-Post sucks. So many vote(r)s are #frustrated. We need to upgrade to #ProportionalRepresentation
#elections
cbc.ca/news/canada/postal-servโฆ
Canada Post is not a for-profit company.
We have to reject it being framed that way.
It is a taxpayer-funded crown corporation providing an essential public service to all of us.
#cdnpoli #canada #privatization #canadapost #elbowsup #canlab
today is tasia's birthday! ๐ please send her some love! nothing would make her happier than getting her bills covered. โค๏ธ
$227/$495 needed ASAP
paypal.com/paypalme/ourinsatiaโฆ
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Poilievre rushed to safety after actual journalist question makes it past security
thebeaverton.com/2025/04/poiliโฆ
CALGARY - During an outdoor campaign rally, security rushed a shaken Pierre Poilievre to safety after he was tragically struck by a lone question from a journalist.Ian MacIntyre (The Beaverton)
As we're voting across the country, remember that the previous Harper CPC gov, and specifically #Poilievre as the relevant Minister, installed a bunch of steps to discourage voting, and remove Elections Canada's impartiality.
That mess was quickly removed with Bill C76 after the #CPC was booted out.
Let's not let them back in again!
"It remains deeply weird and suspect to me that the Canadian media keeps poking at Mark Carney for potential scandals while completely ignoring Pierre Poilievreโs โI wonโt get a security clearance and no you cannot ask whyโ neon sign above his head."
Canadians are naive if they don't understand right-wing factions are working 24/7 to upend our federal election.
#elexn45 #IDU #poilievre #cdnpoli #canada #MapleMAGA @scottdagostino.bsky
*sigh*
rac.ca/rac-will-not-attend-hamโฆ
#Canada #AmateurRadio #HamRadio
At its meeting on March 27, 2025, the Board of Directors of Radio Amateurs of Canada voted unanimously to cancel RACโs plans to operate a booth at Hamvention (Dayton) in Xenia, Ohio in May.Alan Griffin (Radio Amateurs of Canada)
for those not keeping track, the leaders of that #convoy just got accused of mischief for those acts.
cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/tamaโฆ
#elxn2025 #canada #cdnpoli edit: #cdnmedia is inflicting cognitive dissonance with that headline, mischief can be up to 10 years, irregardless of which charges didnโt stick.
โThe โFreedom Convoyโ was โ without question โ one of the low points for conservatism in Canada; one of the most divisive & disturbing events in recent Canadian political history. Its goal was to overthrow a legally elected government & Poilievre championed their cause.โ
"It backfired on Mr #Poilievre when the convoy squatters, squatted for too long & the rest of #Canada watched in horror as they tormented the innocent citizens of #Ottawa & trashed the city for weeks"
cultmtl.com/2025/04/observatioโฆ
An ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.Cult MTL
JD Vance on #Canada: "They just don't have the cards. There is no way that Canada can win a trade war with the United States."
Reminder Pierre #Poilievre has a direct connection to VP Vance through ๐จ๐ฆMP Jivani, who is Vance's best friend. Jivani calls Vance his "brother by another mother." They attended university together & Jivani was Vance's groomsman at his wedding.
Someone just shared this with me. Holy shit. ๐คฏ
โYale professors, #TimothySnyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of #OnTyranny, and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of How #Fascism Works, move to #Canadaโ (to positions at the University of Toronto).
leiterreports.typepad.com/blogโฆ
And so, here we are #canada #cdnpoli
A version of this @ #globeandmail
โWhatโs the probability of this kind of scenario? Ten per cent, 5 per cent, or 1 per cent? No one can say for sure. But itโs certainly not zero. And given the existential cost to Canada, weโd be stupid not to take it seriously. In game-theory terms, we need to pursue a strategy of โminimax regretโ โ to minimize, as best we can, the possibility of worst-case outcomes.โ
cascadeinstitute.org/prepare-fโฆ
Cascade Institute Executive Director Thomas Homer-Dixon urges Canada to bolster its defenses against the growing threat of an authoritarian and imperialist U.S. regime.nicole (Cascade Institute)
on the broadcast I was listening to, this news was quickly followed up with Poillievre talking about creating jobs for working people and how he was going for the union vote.
Both of these parties are corporate apologists.
Yet Ontario, the land of the manufacturer, refuses to vote for the left leaning, worker party in the NDP.
Fascism defined - Tommy Douglas
"Let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt - it may even wear a dress shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege."
#fascism #USA #Canada #cdnpoli
i'm challenging myself to make a teapot every day.
Here's day #7
Teapots are a symbol of friendship and hospitality, so I made this Red Maple Leaf teapot for my friend, who lives in Ontario, Canada.
This is unfired porcelain. decorated and ready for the kiln!
#tea #pottery #canada #art #craft #porcelain #clay
" #Breaking News: A draft deal between #Canada & European Union would bolster defense cooperation at a time when the countryโs ties w U.S. are fraying.
Canadaโs draft deal to participate in Europeโs defense industry will bring contracts to Canadian manufacturers and help lessen dependence on US" 1/...
๐ nytimes.com/2025/03/19/world/cโฆ
Canadaโs draft deal to participate in Europeโs defense industry will bring contracts to Canadian manufacturers and help lessen dependence on the United States.Matina Stevis-Gridneff (The New York Times)
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"PM Mark Carney & his government are preparing for war.
Mr #Poilievre isnโt even prepared to hear national security intelligence."
#cdnpoli #canada #PPStillHasNoSecurityClearance @RyanWright.bsky
#Canada should immediately cancel all 88 of our F-35 fighter plane orders, as they should be considered compromised computers-on-wings that can be disabled as soon as our friends decide to invade us.
We should join the EU, buy a couple of Typhoons and get involved in co-developing the FCAS NGF for starters.
Then, stealth noodles.
This video provides the recipe to rebuild both our advanced aerospace industry AND food industry, by designing our own interceptor #noodles:
youtube.com/watch?v=wyztgCVxSHโฆ
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bosnianapesociety/The year is 1977. The Mikoyan and Gurevich Design Bureau has been the symbol of Soviet dominance in av...YouTube
Anyone know where there's an undubbed copy of Jean Chretien's speech?
youtube.com/watch?v=tU8qNxempSโฆ
Former prime minister Jean Chrรฉtien thanks Justin Trudeau for his time as Liberal leader and prime minister, and addresses the tariff war started by U.S. Pre...YouTube
Elon Musk has apparently stolen money from either Canada and taxpayers, or Tesla dealerships, or likely, from both, as police and transport Canada get involved finding how thousands of Teslas got EV rebates.
Tesla made a suspicious number of rebate requests on last days of Canadian EV incentive
electrek.co/2025/03/07/tesla-mโฆ
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"โTesla gamed the systemโ: Canadian auto dealers โstiffedโ millions when U.S. giant rushed to claim last EV rebates "
thestar.com/news/canada/tesla-โฆ
Transport Canada is looking into Tesla after it made a suspicious number of rebate requests on the last days of...Fred Lambert (Electrek)
#Trump outlined a vision of American #expansionism: building up our naval capacity, reclaiming the #PanamaCanal, & pledging to โgetโ #Greenland, โone way or another.โ
He didnโt mention his aim to make #Canada the 51st state. But that may be because he doesnโt want to get into the horribly idiotic & disastrous #tariffs he placed on Canada & #Mexico today.
I couldn't find an existing list of Canadian alternatives to American Internet services, so I've started one:
worktree.ca/taffer/canadian-alโฆ
Please spread far and wide, and let me know if you have any updates for the page!
#canada #cira #internet #cloud #alberta #british_columbia #bc #manitoba #new_brunswick #newfoundland #labrador #newfoundlandlabrador #northwest_territories #nwt #nova_scotia #nunavut #ontario #prince_edward_island #pei #quebec #saskatchewan #yukon #buycanadian #elbowsup
A collection of Canadian alternatives to common Internet services in the spirit of the various Awesome lists.Worktree
While our southern neighbors' late-stage capitalism autocrats are busy speedrunning the sabotage of their country and trying to bully my country as collateral, up here we're having a โF' it, enough debates, let's launch our own high-speed inter-city rail infrastructure project to serve 40% of the population and boost the local economyโ moment ๐คท
Let's hope it doesn't get cancelled after elections in Q4 ๐ค
pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releasesโฆ
#TGV #highspeedrail #trains #publictransit #infrastructure #Canada
The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced that Canada is developing a high-speed rail network in the Toronto-Quebec City corridor.Prime Minister of Canada
Seen in Ottawa. It seems increasingly that Canadians are fed up with American shit now and we've started with our very own "Freedom Fries" moment.
#Canada #UnitedStates #HadEnoughOfTheirBullshit
In Super Bowl interview, Trump says he wants Canada to be 51st state | AP News
#Canada ๐จ๐ฆ
apnews.com/article/canada-gulfโฆ
President Donald Trump said he is serious about wanting Canada to become the 51st state in an interview that aired Sunday during the Super Bowl preshow.JILL COLVIN (AP News)
To summarize.
Apple Legal signed off on โinaccurate, unexpected, or offensiveโ content being pushed to users *by default*...
what could go wrongโฆ
#Canada #BuyCanadian #AI #AppleIntelligence #mac #Apple #macos15sequoia
This is wild. In the updated Mac User Guide when you click on "learn more" in the Apple Intelligence area of the Settings it says:
"Turn Apple Intelligence on: With macOS 15.3 or later, Apple Intelligence is on by default and integrated across features in your apps. "
then a few lines laterโฆ
"Note: Apple Intelligence is currently in beta. Apple Intelligence uses generative models, and outputs may be inaccurate, unexpected, or offensive. Check important information for accuracy."
#Canada #BuyCanadian #AI #AppleIntelligence #mac #Apple #macos15sequoia
