David Dvorak

Let's hope Pattison does the right thing

YouTube video by corydoctorow A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet (a speech at 39C3 in Hamburg on Dec 28, 2025)

If America won't honour your country's trade agreement and imposes tariffs, why honour the digital anti-circumvention rules (digital locks) in those same agreements? Those rules which overwhelmingly benefit American tech companies.

Interesting argument from Cory Doctorow.

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New piece! For the second time in three years, Metro Vancouver has raised development charges just after another level of government lowered taxes on new housing, capturing the savings instead of lowering total costs.

Read Metro Van Strikes Again here: www.missingmiddleini...

The hierarchy of controls in this article is excellent!

Mitigation efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and meet the Paris Agreement have been offset by economic growth - Communications Earth & Environment Global carbon dioxide intensity declined from 2015 to 2024 following the Paris Agreement, but total emissions still increased due to economic growth, according to a global analysis of population, gros...

Good news: carbon intensity has declined

Bad news: carbon emissions increased, due to the rapid rise in world GDP

Also bad news: the chance of staying below 2°C remained low, at 17%

Better news: chance of going above 3°C has gone down substantially, from 26% to 9%

The shift from gas-powered to electric scooters and bikes is equally huge

YouTube video by Mark Mitchell - Mortgage Broker London Ontario Bank of Canada Mortgage Lending Program Returns - V2

Sounds like the Canadian banks could be offloading their underwater blanket appraisals to the bank of Canada, if only regular Canadians had that option
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Yet nobody is talking about the single biggest line item in the federal budget: Old Age Security. A retired couple with $180,000 of combined income currently receives $18,000 in OAS income supports. Yet 400,000 seniors live in poverty and now cuts to First Nations social programs. Reform is needed!

The fed gov cuts to pay for military and wealthy tax cuts have rapidly expanded. My new analysis shows that most of the cuts will now be on transfers to other govs, non-profits and people. A stunning 1 in 5 dollars is just cuts to FN govs for basic social programs. @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇

Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities, government says

Interesting idea, wonder if other countries will follow:
Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features | Deepfake | The Guardian share.google/S1hhEIlsnyMz...

Five things to remember about war:

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

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Well worth watching if you want to know how our CPP dollars are being spent. What other job still gets bonuses when they lose billions of dollars...

Reagan:
"Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies; they are our allies. We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends — weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world — all while cynically waving the American flag."

A great article! I think my favourite line is "Housing needs cannot be fully assessed based only on the households that have managed to form during housing shortages."

Oversized pickups and SUVs: the new kings of the roads are dangerous, threatening lives and our living environments (Part 1) - Halifax Examiner In 2023, for every regular passenger car sold in Canada, six trucks – primarily larger pickups, SUVs, and vans - were sold. The same is true in Nova Scotia.

READ: “This series of 3 articles looks at what is driving the trend for ever bigger and higher pickups and SUVs, and the many reasons this is bad for people, roads, cities, the environment, and the climate.”

Definately worth reading & sharing. #VehicleBloat www.halifaxexaminer.ca/transportati...

Indigenous tribes engineered British Columbia’s modern hazelnut forests more than 7000 years ago Genetic analysis of hazelnut trees could help First Nations secure land rights in Canadian courts

I had no idea hazelnuts had been cultivated in BC for so long www.science.org/content/arti...

Sounds pretty good actually, I'd try it!