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A Vancouver Landlord Keeps Being Allowed to Evict Tenants. Why? | The Tyee Residents want to know why BC’s Residential Tenancy Branch keeps siding with Plan A.

The tenants of Park Beach have been fighting aggressive eviction threats for nearly two years.

Their landlord has painted them as criminals and thieves - and to their dismay, some Residential Tenancy Branch arbitrators have accepted that characterization. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

JD Vance post: "Rumors swirling that the EU commission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship. The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage."

american reporters, you've got to call bullshit on this. vance, purveyor of hate/propaganda, wants the public to believe rules on, for instance, transparency in advertising and forms of deception on X are censorship.

don't fall for it.

Meta has begun shutting down kids' social media in Australia. The world is watching to see how it unfolds | CBC News As platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube begin to comply with Australia's new landmark law banning social media for those under 16, Aussie youth are now seeing pop-ups about their acc...

Glad to speak with CBC about Australia’s social media ban for those under 16.

TL:DR, Canada should not hurry to such a blunt tool. Huge risk of unintended consequences.

Return to a duty of care framework as existed in pt 1 of C-63 more appropriate.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/....

OPINION | Boswell woke up Canada’s competition watchdog. With his departure imminent, it must get to work. - The Wire Report Will the government appoint a successor who keeps using the Bureau’s newfound teeth, or someone who puts the muzzle back on?

OPINION | The critical question for the federal government as Boswell leaves office is simple, writes @openmedia.org's @matthtfld.bsky.social, will they appoint a successor who keeps using the bureau's newfound teeth, or someone who puts the muzzle back on?:

www.thewirereport.ca/2025/12/03/o...

Jack Goldsmith was head of the Office of Legal Counsel under George W Bush.

HORSES key art of an illustrated man's shocked face against a red background, cropped to remove his mouth

Opinion: However you frame it, Valve's ham-fisted ban of an indie darling is another blow for free expression in video games, and this will always be a tragedy.

Santa Ragione's Horses is just one instance of a growing trend - and one we ought to resist.

www.eurogamer.net/however-you-...

Competition Commissioner Matthew Boswell calls it quits early Consumer advocates petition government for a "monopoly cop" and warn against placating Bay Street by naming a weak successor

“If we’re trying to make systemic change in competition, then that means sustained effort.”

Glad to speak w/Do Not Pass Go about our push for a monopoly busting follow-up to Boswell who will finish the job.

www.donotpassgo.ca/p/competitio...

Trump's censor in chief at the FCC, Brendan Carr, just sent a letter to the heads of BBC, NPR and PBS informing them he's launching a "news distortion" probe into the BBC's editing of a documentary on Trump's Jan. 6 activities.

Here it is:

Three months ago Coinbase's CEO was talking up how great it was that he "banned politics" at the company five years ago.

www.businessinsider.com/coinbase-ceo...

As Democratic FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez said last week: "Capitulation breeds capitulation."

Disney/ABC's $16 million dollar payout to Trump in December didn't earn the company any special favors today.

CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

this is frankly enraging

the most chilling part of trump's horribleness about jamal isn't just the lies & disrespect. it's what's in his mind, it's the idea that critics & journalists 'have it coming'. is it a green light to murder? maybe.

Just the president of the United States rationalizing that a Washington Post reporter was basically asking to be murdered and cut to pieces with a bone saw because of his reporting.

As he sits next to the thug who ordered it.

UK asylum seekers face seizure of jewellery to pay for accommodation New powers to confiscate high-value items are among measures intended to curb number of small boats crossing the Channel

"People seeking asylum in the UK could be stripped of assets including jewellery to cover the costs of their accommodation, the government confirmed on Monday."

My unsolicited & just one guy two cents is that unconsolidated fascism is a massive threat & yes it's not full fascism yet & no one serious actually says that it is but let's not wait until it is to call the fascists fascist OK?

big ruling today

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

A $30 million "fine" for no crime. Politically-motivated extortion of private institutions.

Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."

Canada Needs Privacy Law Reforms Now! 🇨🇦 Canada’s privacy laws are DECADES old and fail to protect us from corporate misuse & government overreach. ✊ Tell MPs it’s time for real Privacy Law Reform and to make #Privacy4Canadians a priority...

🇨🇦 Canada’s privacy laws are DECADES old and fail to protect us from corporate misuse & government overreach. ✊ Tell MPs it’s time for real Privacy Law Reform and to make #Privacy4Canadians a priority! 📨 openmedia.org/Privacy4Cana...
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Graphic on a red background with bold white text explaining that every seat in Nova Scotia is now held by a Liberal MP even though more than 240,000 people voted for other parties. The image calls for proportional representation so every vote counts fairly.

When one MP crosses the floor and an entire province loses all opposition voices, it shows just how broken our voting system is.

Proportional representation would ensure no party can sweep every seat without sweeping the vote.

You would be kicked out of any writer’s room in existence if you had the villains celebrating a Great Gatsby-themed party while taking away food benefits from millions of poor people.

it's fun how the degenerate gambling/crypto/corruption plotlines are all converging.

F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls

It literally took decades of advocacy to pass these reforms, which would have prevented prison phone and teleconferencing companies from ripping off inmates and their families to the tune of hundreds of millions annually

Even with this sanitized (not declassified) report from NSICOP, nowhere is the case made out for Bill C-2's intercept technologies or even the specifics of what they're asking for. If the public safety minister were to release what he'd propose as regulations, we could have a real discussion.

The ICEmen were presumably looking for undocumented immigrants. Retes’s driver’s license, which he says the ICEmen never asked to see, identifies him as “Veteran Army.” His license plate includes “DV”: disabled veteran. While ICE’s warriors were trying and ultimately succeeding in smashing his driver’s-side window (the better to pepper spray him), they apparently did not notice his rear window’s “Iraq Combat Veteran” sticker.

How George Will describes the unlawful arrest of George Retes in the Bezos Post.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

There are no meaningful permanent deals to strike with the Trump administration.

It isn’t about fentanyl. It isn’t about ads that rightly characterize President Reagan as anti-tariff.

Canada is on our own and have to act like it.

Trump: "I don't think we're gonna necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we're just gonna kill people... Okay? We're gonna kill them. They're gonna be, like, dead."

The perversion of our nonpartisan criminal justice system exactly mirrors the methods used to establish the Erdoğan dictatorship in Turkey—now in its 22nd year.

Forcing public servants to “find” crimes by political opponents equates to suspending our Constitution. It will harm all on Right & Left.