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Main Geek @thetyee.ca‬ & contributor there and elsewhere was @bpcarney on the now musky smelling app https://muckrack.com/bryan-carney/articles Collecting material for last touches on book, "The Internet Was Great but It's Time to Shut It Down"

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We can also pilot a model that prioritizes stability over shareholder returns, transparency over marketing spin, and public interest over private margins. In a moment where economic insecurity is rising, cities need new tools. A city-run grocery should be one of them.

26.06.2025 16:55 — 👍 19    🔁 9    💬 4    📌 1
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Newly launched Access to Information review is flawed, transparency advocates say OTTAWA – A newly launched federal review of the Access to Information system is being greeted with deep skepticism by transparency advocates. The Treasury Board Secretariat announced the governm...

A newly launched federal review of the Access to Information system is being greeted with deep skepticism by transparency advocates. Our story: tinyurl.com/2ukbm7y8 #cdnfoi #cdnpoli

24.06.2025 03:08 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

😂What is the actual point of Draisaitl’s mouthguard, literally never on his teeth

13.06.2025 04:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Does a word make a meaning if it falls in a forest of no click rate ?

12.06.2025 06:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I guess time will tell if it comes back online in some form …

12.06.2025 05:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Noticing The Economist yanked this piece after publication?

"Carney's Collosal Canada-US pact", "It woudl give America a first right of refusal on Canadian minerals"

archive.is/MlS7x

11.06.2025 22:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Bill C-2 has enormous implications for the privacy of Canadians. Buried toward the end is a law enforcement wish list that includes warrantless disclosure of information about Internet subscribers and unprecedented access to Internet provider networks.
bsky.app/profile/mgei...

04.06.2025 15:28 — 👍 9    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 2
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Joint Statement on Efforts to Counter the Proliferation and Misuse of Commercial Spyware - United States Department of State This Joint Statement was originally announced on March 30, 2023, at the second Summit for Democracy, with an inaugural group of eleven likeminded partners. Since then, it has been updated to reflect a...

Wait a minute, though

Isn't Canada 🇨🇦 a signatory to the Joint Statement to control mercenary spyware? Doesn't that statement oblige countries to "establish robust guardrails" around spyware use?

Yes!

Has the govt delivered on those commitments? 😮‍💨

Nope

2021-2025.state.gov/joint-statem...

03.06.2025 23:42 — 👍 22    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Virtue or Vice? A First Look at Paragon’s Proliferating Spyware Operations - The Citizen Lab In our first investigation into Israel-based spyware company, Paragon Solutions, we begin to untangle multiple threads connected to the proliferation of Paragon's mercenary spyware operations across t...

Especially because we @citizenlab.ca discovered that Ontario Provincial Police are customers of Israel-based Paragon spyware used to silently hack phones of targets (and which is now implicated in government surveillance abuses in Italy 🇮🇹)

citizenlab.ca/2025/03/a-fi...

03.06.2025 23:37 — 👍 18    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0

Way to go Amanda :)

01.06.2025 21:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media

An astonishing statistic. And the fact that we created a world where that is virtually logistically impossible is a real detriment and very sad.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

20.05.2025 06:39 — 👍 472    🔁 93    💬 8    📌 35
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Canada now has a minister of artificial intelligence. What will he do? | CBC News Canada has its very first minister of artificial intelligence in veteran broadcaster and newly elected Toronto Centre MP Evan Solomon. So what does that job exactly entail?

"The [Liberal Party] platform... suggests Solomon will have a massive job touching nearly every aspect of the economy and with national security considerations."

Yet CBC itself fails to mention they fired this dumbass for violating the most basic of journalistic ethics
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

20.05.2025 15:54 — 👍 48    🔁 24    💬 4    📌 4

It refers to how you have to boil bitter sappy crap for 60 years to get one year of good/sweet

19.05.2025 02:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

TLDR:

Nothing currently proposed by any government has the slightest hope of addressing the housing crisis by basic math.

And even the inadequate things are proposed to take a decade and will probably take longer

16.05.2025 16:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The WCC board still would require a few more restaurant options actually open at both domestic & international YVR

15.05.2025 17:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Your failure to grasp this is a bit trying, but I’ll help you one last time:

It doesn’t matter if Carney was a politician or not yet, it matters if Solomon had access because of his role.

The scandal was Solomon’s ethical breach and it was always an issue and remains one 👋

14.05.2025 22:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Relations resuming as normal after this really does seem like it was the beginning of the current era of not bothering pretending authoritarians will be checked

14.05.2025 22:30 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

You’re describing the Internet.

Now, less ironic mass-scolding and more coming up with bluesky - scold puns,

“More like BlueSkold” or some such ?

14.05.2025 21:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Not in politics” lol … he was the governor of the Bank of England after a long term as bank of Canada and there were many whispers of his future here

14.05.2025 20:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If you are in a position of power because you are a journalist & you personally profit from connections that affords you…

(One of those connections was our current Prime Minister whom he brokered an art deal to)

most journalists I know would call that an “ethics violation”. Thx for your opinion

14.05.2025 19:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Canadians and journalists especially must not let this scandal go

There was absolutely no ambiguity in the inappropriateness of Solomon’s ethic breaches & it bodes terribly for his integrity as a pub official

…and for 🇨🇦 that Carney calculated: No political price appointing his very art dealer

14.05.2025 15:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0
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In February when Pierre Poilievre was holding a rally in downtown Ottawa, Bruce Fanjoy was door-knocking in Carleton.

I asked Fanjoy, who was considered at the time a major underdog, why this was so personal for him.

Carleton agreed with his pitch, denying Poilievre his seat.

29.04.2025 16:45 — 👍 154    🔁 26    💬 1    📌 3
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👀🦅 for this painting Solomon sold to Carney to show up @PMO

29.04.2025 07:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Not our beloved Fraser Street... My heart is broken. I feel so sick reading the horrific details of what people experienced at this evening's attack. This is a violent violation of a special safe place shared by so many, on a day to celebrate Lapu Lapu. Take care of each other.

27.04.2025 05:19 — 👍 351    🔁 66    💬 1    📌 3

this sounds familiar...

26.04.2025 05:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Reporters Without Borders "calls on all political parties to explain to Canadians how they will strive to modernize the federal Access to Information Act once in government." #cdnfoi #cdnpoli
rsf.org/en/canada-rs...

22.04.2025 20:00 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

*gripe

13.04.2025 04:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

(Hah interesting I think I was repeating & updating a CTV story because I was so curious how they managed to get the data, however flawed the framing was ). Didn’t do the story and it was years ago, but you reminded me of an old group as I was scrolling before bed …

13.04.2025 04:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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