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Petition **e-6838** 📢 has fewer signatures, but focuses directly on the privacy aspect of Bill C-2, and petitions for withdrawal of the entire bill. (And is clearer & better written.)
ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Pet…
It closes for signatures on *27 January 2026*.
Worth signing both this one & **e-6627** if you're Canadian! 🇨🇦
Tell the Government of Canada (Industry Canada) how you REALLY feel about their AI strategy.
ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/…
Open until Oct 31.
Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership
Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed AI strategy.ised-isde.canada.ca
I am so incredibly annoyed by the stupid "Big Five" #banks in #Canada forcing broken phone or SMS-based #2FA upon everybody. It just plain doesn't work. Let alone the fact that it's insecure compared to standard #TOTP.
I've had at least two different financial institutions try to pull this crap on my parents, and each time, I have to call them to ask to turn off that shite because they're unable to send codes, or the codes they send are always invalid.
Feeling that the govt abandoning #Canada Post is just handing the lucrative delivery business to US corporations. There's no doubt that a transformation is necessary, but the Carney vision is to dismantle it, which will allow the commercial services to enshittify, and that will be bad for Canadian individuals and businesses.
A big question is why there are 6 trucks/day delivering 6 individual packages to each address. Surely we can do better.
So this "buy Canadian" policy announced by Carney - any more details on it?
We have the previous eye-popping increase of military spending to 5% of GDP, dozens of billions...is that going to be spent in #canada
Dozens of billions spent on US cloud services, SAAS, social media, ad purchasing, and consulting? Is that going to become "buy Canadian" too?
Is the Canadian govt going to drop Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Oracle, Deloitte, IBM, Accenture out of their procurements?
Before you get to the linked article, where CBC News gives you their ideas on what Canadian travellers should know, here's what I say they should know and do, or rather not do.
If you value your health, and have an ounce of intelligence, just don't. Travel to Florida, that is.
cbc.ca/news/health/florida-vac… #cbc #topstories #news #canada
US flight attendants push to be paid after the Air #Canada union finally get a contract that pays for all work including when planes aren’t in the air: ‘Most of our passengers have no idea’
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US flight attendants push to be paid when planes aren’t in the air: ‘Most of our passengers have no idea’
Cabin crews across North America aren’t paid for work done before takeoff, but new Air Canada deal has raised hopeMichael Sainato (The Guardian)
He 💩 dipped.
And just so we're clear:
What happened was that the fascist architect of Project 2025 opted out, not that our government wouldn't have taken the meeting had he been available.
They're still looking for "further engagement and discussions with him and other leading U.S. policy figures soon."
I keep telling people:
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Shitlibs are just fascists who are afraid they won't get any more dinner party invites if they say the words out loud.
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#FuckFascism #FuckShitlibs #Canada #CanPoli #MarkCarney
Today, many #Canadians are very pissed off(rightfully so) over the news that our sellout PM #MarkCarney is welcoming a #Project2025 #USNazi / a literal fucking #fascist in #Canada.
The Liberals are #Conservative #neoliberals & totally fascist friendly 💩🤬🤮
#CDNpoli #Politics #CapitalismKills #FascismKills #GreedKills #GreasyPoliticians #FuckThisShit
It's 2025, and Canada is literally on fire. 1 in 4 Canadians can't afford enough food to eat. Housing starts are down, and are projected to continue falling.
What are Carney's priorities? Subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, of course. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
ctvnews.ca/business/article/to…
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines #GlobalBoiling #CostOfLivingCrisis
Touting ‘enormous’ LNG opportunities, Carney says Canada to unveil new port infrastructure investments within two weeks
Amid his push to strengthen energy and economic ties with Europe, Prime Minister Mark Carney revealed Tuesday that the federal government will imminently be unveiling major new investments in port infrastructure.Rachel Aiello (CTVNews)
The Air Canada strike situation is an unmitigated disgrace.
First of all, getting no pay for mandatory work while the plane is on the ground is fucking insane, and it apparently being industry standard practice (which I had no idea of before today) makes it so much worse. Unions explicitly agreeing to it in the past doesn't make that any less true; I dearly hope those unions had damn good reasons at the time, because any union worth its salt would know that this is textbook wage theft, and sends the message that this type of labour is not valuable. A message that is, of course, a lie, because if it wasn't valuable it wouldn't be mandatory!
The other prong of this hellscape is that forcing people back to work should never be allowed, in any industry, in any context. Causing economic damage is precisely the purpose of strikes; that's what motivates the company to give the workers what they want. If the company is so big and central to the economy that a strike will significantly damage the entire economy, then that's not a reason to force people back to work; it's a reason to break up the company!
#airCanada #airCanadaStrike #airlines #antiTrust #business #canada #canPol #canPoli #CUPE #strike #union #unions #workers #workersRights
Other arrangements could be made for Air Canada customers, this was an unnecessary move by the federal government.
"The Liberals are violating our Charter rights to take job action and give Air Canada exactly what they want -- hours and hours of unpaid labour from underpaid flight attendants, while the company pulls in sky-high profits and extraordinary executive compensation,” said CUPE Air Canada Component president Wesley Lesosky in the release."
#Women #AirCanada #Union
#Canada
ctvnews.ca/business/article/ai…
BREAKING: Jobs minister orders Air Canada flight attendants back to work
Air Canada flight attendants have officially begun their strike after failing to reach a deal with the airline, the Canadian Union of Public Employees announced Saturday morning.CTVNews.ca Staff (CTVNews)
5 months since Mark Carney has become Canada's PM. Anyone know how much effort he's put in so far to stop relying on USA tech giants' products for the federal government IT infrastructure? How much money spent to move to alternatives not under US control? Vague plans to invest in Canadian companies isn't enough, the government should already be moving away from USA tech whenever possible.
Because I haven't seen anything concrete about it. I hope I missed something.
Wonder if the Canadian Digital Services Tax will be resurrected.
Canada dropped it to appease Trump but it doesn't appear to have made any difference.
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
#usa #canada #tariff #digitalservices #trump
Trump signs order increasing tariffs on Canadian goods from 25% to 35%
Decision, described by Mark Carney as ‘disappointing’, comes amid escalating trade tensions between the two countriesRobert Mackey (The Guardian)
🇨🇦 Canadians prefer the disabled and poverty stricken pushed out of sight-- invisible
Punishing unhoused people for existing doesn’t make them go away
#Canpoli #Canada #Poverty #Housing #MentalHealth #Disability #invisible
policyalternatives.ca/news-res…
Encampment sweeps won’t solve Canada’s homeless crisis | CCPA
Devin’s headlamp cut through the darkness. At the base of the pine trees lining the narrow green strip beside Notre Dame East Boulevard, he was bent, writing on the white backside of a plastic sheet.Changiz M. Varzi (CCPA)
'Mark Carney, who knows more about the climate change than any other prime minister we've ever had, still is talking pipelines and has never stopped talking pipelines. This is moral and economic madness.'
David Suzuki: Mark Carney looking to build more pipelines 'is moral and economic madness'
Happy #CanadaDay. I figured, it might be fun to share this #CanadaLand episode where one of the McKenzie brothers explains the role #CanCon played in helping #Canada get a reputation of saying "eh?" David Thomas does a great job explaining the history of #SCTV — funny how culture comes into being. Welcome to the Great White North!
canadaland.com/podcast/1164-da…
#1164 Dave Thomas of SCTV on Why Canadians Rule Comedy
Dan Aykroyd blew in from Ottawa. Andrea Martin came in from Maine and Joe Flaherty came in from Pittsburgh. Paul Schaffer came in from Thunder Bay. Marty Short and Eugene Levy and I came in from Hamilton.Canadaland
It's one day before #CanadaDay, and Mark Carney is surrendering to Donald Trump.
Canadians, pay attention: Bill C-2 is a quiet threat to your privacy and civil liberties.
With so much happening around the world, it’s easy to miss what’s going on in our own backyard. But Bill C-2, now in the House of Commons, deserves your attention.
It lowers the threshold for law enforcement to access your private data—without a warrant. All it takes is "reasonable suspicion."
What kind of data?
* Internet and cellphone metadata
* Your location and activity logs
* Information shared across borders with foreign agencies
All accessed more easily under vague “exigent circumstances”
As a person who’s been accosted based on “reasonable suspicion” due to…. existing, I’m concerned that this bill expands surveillance powers and erodes due process protections that Canadians have long relied on.
I keep seeing arguments like, “If you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.”
Let me be clear: that’s not how rights work.
Free societies are built on the principle that the law protects the innocent—not that we must prove we have nothing to hide.
If you're concerned (and you should be), reach out to your Member of Parliament. Let them know you oppose C-2 and support real protections for Canadian privacy and civil rights.
You can read the full bill here:
parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1…
Let’s not sleepwalk into surveillance. We deserve better.
PS The Citizen Lab has an excellent write up citizenlab.ca/2025/06/a-prelim…
PPS If you're a Canadian resident, find your Member of Parliament here: ourcommons.ca/members/en
#PrivacyMatters #BillC2 #Canada
Unspoken Implications: A Preliminary Analysis of Bill C-2 and Canada’s Potential Data-Sharing Obligations
On June 3, 2025, the Canadian government tabled Bill C-2, omnibus legislation that, if passed, would introduce a wide array of new federal agency and law enforcement powers, and would significantly reform substantive and due process laws in Canada fo…Alyson Bruce (The Citizen Lab)
Wow. Solid majorities in the Liberals (60%), NDP (69%) & the Bloc (78%) all oppose Mark Carney using #BillC5 to override environmental regulations for fast-tracked projects.
angusreid.org/bill-c5-carney-i…
Bill C-5: Canadians support fast-tracking projects, but conflicted over individual elements of the legislation -
Half still want proper ecological assessments; two-in-five in Quebec demand provincial input June 26, 2025 – The fast track on projects deemed in the national interest is well on the way to being paved.David Korzinski (Angus Reid Institute)
"Bill C-2 is not a border bill. It is a power grab and an attack on fundamental human rights and civil liberties."
thecanadianpressnews.ca/politi…
#BillC2 #ElbowsUp #Canada #CDNPoli
Hundreds of groups call on Ottawa to scrap border bill over privacy, rights concerns
OTTAWA - More than 300 civil society organizations are calling on the Liberal government to withdraw its new border bill, saying the legislation threatens liberties, refugee and migrant rights andthecanadianpressnews.ca
My plea to Canada’s 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
AI is Dehumanization Technology
A call to reject the deployment and use of AI systems in Canada's public sector.thedabbler.patatas.ca
cbc.ca/news/canada/postal-serv…
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
Next election you'll also "have" to vote liberal to keep out the conservatives.
They'll be told they "have" to vote conservative to end 15 years of liberal rule.
This is how FPTP destabilizes democracy, it's now coming straight for #Canada
We have to stop treating #ProportionalRepresentation like some back burner issue or we will lose our country.
⚠️ URGENT! please help a #disabled, #queer woman cover groceries, her electric bill, & a bank overdraft. the government refused to pay her usual disability benefits because of her outstanding debts. only $125 CAD now needed!
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#disability #mutualAid #MutualAidRequest #BlackMutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund #actuallyAutistic #neuroDivergent #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #poverty #DisabilityMutualAid #HelpRequest #HelpFolksLive2025 #canada #queerMutualAid #queerCrowdfund
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Poilievre rushed to safety after actual journalist question makes it past security
thebeaverton.com/2025/04/poili…
Poilievre rushed to safety after actual journalist question makes it past security - The Beaverton
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!
*sigh*
rac.ca/rac-will-not-attend-ham…
#Canada #AmateurRadio #HamRadio
RAC Will Not Attend Hamvention this Year - Radio Amateurs of Canada
At its meeting on March 27, 2025, the Board of Directors of Radio Amateurs of Canada voted unanimously to cancel RAC’s plans to operate a booth at Hamvention (Dayton) in Xenia, Ohio in May.Alan Griffin (Radio Amateurs of Canada)
“The ‘Freedom Convoy’ was — without question — 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.”
"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/observatio…
Observations from Montreal
An ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.Cult MTL
Someone just shared this with me. Holy shit. 🤯
“Yale 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 #Canada” (to positions at the University of Toronto).
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog…
And so, here we are #canada #cdnpoli
A version of this @ #globeandmail
“What’s the probability of this kind of scenario? Ten per cent, 5 per cent, or 1 per cent? No one can say for sure. But it’s certainly not zero. And given the existential cost to Canada, we’d be stupid not to take it seriously. In game-theory terms, we need to pursue a strategy of “minimax regret” – to minimize, as best we can, the possibility of worst-case outcomes.”
cascadeinstitute.org/prepare-f…
If you want peace, prepare for war—an ancient lesson Canada must remember - Cascade Institute %
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.