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Toronto cop arrested in corruption probe trafficked uniforms, mishandled police firearm: court documents | CBC News One of the Toronto police officers charged in a sweeping corruption probe last week is alleged to have trafficked police uniforms and mishandled a police-issued firearm, court documents allege.

Wonder if they're dealing cop costumes to right-wing militias 🤔 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Baby Ghosts Baby Ghosts is a nonprofit supporting studios led by underrepresented founders across Canada.

Coming up on Feb 18th, an info session about the foundations course/grant for indie game studios' incubation babyghosts.org/info-session

Project Equity | Discover the power of employee ownership Helping businesses & communities discover the power of employee ownership. Owners retire well, employees gain equity and businesses stay locally rooted.

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What does social infrastructure look like for the socially dispossessed?

‘It’s not too late to fix it’: web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul’ of the internet Founder of the world wide web says commercialisation means the net has been ‘optimised for nastiness’, but collaboration and compassion can prevail

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Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor who

This isn’t just “owning the libs” — this is the highest office in the nation using technology to lie to the entire world. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The warnings highlight just how bad of an operational security screwup Flock's info sharing design was. It also shows how cops see themselves as being consistently under threat from the people it is supposed to protect. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports.

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Defend Privacy and Free Speech Don’t let tyrants co-opt tech. Join EFF and help fight back.

You can help support EFF tools like Privacy Badger, Certbot, and Rayhunter by becoming a member of EFF today! eff.org/join

First Nations Strategic Bulletin, May - Dec 2025 FIRST NATIONS STRATEGIC BULLETIN: VOLUME 23, ISSUES 5-12, MAY - DEC 2025 Click on file attachment below to access the bulletin. In this issue: Setting the Trap PM Speech to AFN Indigenous Caucus Conta...

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I've reached out to all Canadian companies listed here to ask if they intend to continue working with ICE:

Hootsuite
Roshel
Garda
Jim Pattison Developments

I've also reached out to @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social's team for comment on export permits for Canadian sale of armoured vehicles to ICE.

"In 2024, Cohere [got from the Fed] $240M for a $725 million data centre in Cambridge, Ontario... Cohere’s tech itself may have been built using questionable practices ... media companies allege that Cohere’s systems created hallucinations: fake articles that were attributed to the publishers"

Absolutely reprehensible for CPP to be investing in this.

In 2019, I was part of a campaign to pressure CPP to divest from American for-profit prison company GEO group due to their abuses with ICE. We won. It's time to put that pressure on again. We must not be complicit with fascism.

How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE A few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.

ICE has spent hundreds of millions on surveillance. Some technologists are building tools to find it, map it, and push back. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Y'all I mean it when I say -- if you are CANADIAN join the NDP now now now and get behind Avi's fabulous campaign. time is of the essence.

When I titled my book "Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone" I really did not anticipate how hard that phrase would eventually hit.

The left case for joining the NDP—and voting for Avi Lewis ⋆ The Breach The leadership race is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the party

The NDP leadership race is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the party into an unapologetically left-wing force.

Martin Lukacs argues that Avi Lewis’s campaign is the best chance to do that. breachmedia.ca/the-left-cas...

If you have bought anything from Canada Computers in the last 1-2 months your Credit Card has been compromised. They had a skimmer on their website during that time. It just got removed today. It's yet to have been reported on.

Economic strike in Minnesota to protest against ICE: ‘No work, no school, no shopping’ Organizers demand ICE leave state and agency be investigated for constitutional violations * ICE protests – live updates A “no work, no school, no shopping” blackout day of protest was kicked off by community leaders, faith leaders and labor unions on Friday in protest against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surge in the state. The “Day of Truth & Freedom” protest comes in the wake of the killing of Renee Good, the unarmed woman killed by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis earlier this month. Continue reading...

Economic strike in Minnesota to protest against ICE: ‘No work, no school, no shopping’

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz The New Satanic Panic Is Here

Enough with the nonsense moral panic around social media! youtube.com/watch?v=2yVJ...

Why Developers Are Suddenly Turning Against Claude Code? Just a few months ago, Claude Code was widely seen as one of the most powerful and developer-friendly AI coding tools on the market. In 2025, it had become a favorite among power users, praised for it...

Seems like they're going to be eating crow soon based on the dev influencer backlash I've been seeing in my feeds ucstrategies.com/news/why-dev...

Narwhal lawsuit against RCMP over arrest of journalist, in court Jan 12 00:16:03 - In 2021, Amber Bracken, a freelance photojournalist on assignment for the Narwhal, was arrested by the RCMP on Wet’suwet’en territory and held in ja…

On a new 👁️‍🗨️ @redeyeradio.bsky.social 👁️‍🗨️ @thenarwhal.ca editor in chief Carol Linnett talks about journalist @amberbracken.bsky.social's 2021 arrest on Wet’suwet’en territory and why they're taking the RCMP to court to defend press freedom beginning this week.

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ICE is using hexachloroethane gas on protesters. It is banned as a lethal chemical asphyxiation agent by the Geneva Convention, but the trump administration has been using it on civilians and argued that a “foreign convention” doesn’t apply to US citizens.

A shadowy figure - an ICE agent - lurks menacingly at someone off screen, as a hand holding a phone points to him, filming him. Above and behind him is a Nazi soldier in grey, being held at the point of a bayonet. It says in red text, "We Beat 'Em Once.. We'll Beat 'Em Again!"

The murder of Renee Good by ICE is an atrocity that must face justice. Thankfully, accurate and clear video footage shows that this was a cold-blooded murder. This iteration of the print pays homage to that.

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At The Words of Ed Zitron, a PR person and writer.

I'm mostly with Ed when it comes to the AI hype. However, as someone who likes designing software more than I like writing it, I have to admit that vibe-coding has been pretty good for me 🤷 www.wheresyoured.at

The cooperative technology community has gotten me taking another look at the Fediverse. Been skeptical for a while about ActivityPub for lack of moderation mechanisms, but that's a consequence of decentralization. Having an identity tied to one server seems to contradict the principle, though 🤨

The Measurable Impact of Structured Data for the Discoverability of the Performing Arts - Artsdata Adding structured data to event pages has a quantifiable impact on both search engine results pages and the resulting web traffic.

Today at @civictechto.bsky.social I learned about the positive impact that structured web data can have on the promotion of the arts: www.artsdata.ca/en/news/impa...

I've been networking with the folks from Co-op Cloud and asked about their operational model. They sent me this resource, which I'm just checking out tv.lumbung.space/w/7CzzFRNNfC...

YouTube video by j aubrey where did this freak even come from

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Someone was accusing me of "stealing" content by doing web scraping for my events calendar, so I decided to own it. I updated my profile to say "Big Tech data theft @ KW Events Radar" 😏