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Remember that Elon Musk bought Twitter on the basis of bullshit claims that its algorithm was not promoting conservative accounts fairly, and now we're seeing the tech right clamp down on liberals and the left across the board

NEW: The order to throttle Starlink (Starshield) came from the White House to the Pentagon. I still think Elon was involved, though. He’s currently a Pentagon employee as well www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Today is World Mental Health Day. Mental health is health, yet just 6.3% of Canada's health spending goes toward it. I'm calling for renewed federal funding and support for my Mental Health Parity Act, Bill C-280. Nobody should be denied care because they can't afford it.

My column this week is all about the fiscal time bomb awaiting governments in the AI age — "the twilight of labour," as some economists are calling. If we don't tax AI companies now, it's going to be much harder to do it later. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

Canada is wealthy, yet 65K people are homeless. Only 3.3% of our housing is non-market, far behind European countries. I challenged the Liberals: shouldn't nation-building mean ensuring everyone has a home? Housing is infrastructure. Ending homelessness must be a nat'l priority. #NationBuilding

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

Lorne Doerkson and the BC Conservatives made their first misstep of their campaign this week. They quietly told stakeholders that they would end B.C.'s no-fault car insurance. @pwillcocks.bsky.social writes. #BCPoli thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Conservatives are the biggest gatekeepers when it comes to housing supply and affordability in Canada, as I wrote three years ago. Danielle Smith and the UCP just proved my point, again. www.nationalobserver.com/2023/06/12/o...

BC Conservatives Run Full Slate of Candidates With Views Ranging from Conspiratorial To Bigoted Party leader Doerkson refused to drop candidate who made anti-LGBTQ statements. pressprogress.ca/bc-conservat...

Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying.

A super concerning meeting of white nationalists in advance of Truth and Reconciliation day cfjctoday.com/2026/09/27/a...

white nationalists doing hate crime on the highway overpass in Dufferin neighbourhood of Kamloops now

Hell to the fucking no it doesn't.

BC Conservative leader "I think SOGI has to be removed" youtu.be/pc1yln77BTY?...

We are so dependent on American reporters who were able to get the chat logs leaked to them BC’s AG apparently didn’t know what was in those chats until the Mother Jones report today

We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

HERE. WE. GO.

I once again ask why does every single police officer need a computer in every single police cruiser giving them instant access to every single Canadians' private information? There is no oversight. They are literally using this information to stalk women and sharing this information with assassins

Water Not Coal has released a copy of a letter with concerns about Elections Alberta, including... - 2 directors being fired without cause - Multiple changes to how their petition was being verified mid process - A service manager & 4 supervisors quitting with concerns the process was compromised.

The fact that he views public assets as belonging to the government is the problem. They don't belong to the government. They belong to the public. They belong to us. Not the Liberals, not Parliament, not him. Us. He's a caretaker, not an owner.

Most people don't know that the best way to make a service more efficient is to bring in a layer of upper management devoted solely to extracting a profit from it. It takes a doctorate in economics to figure that one out.

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is a wild thread Newly elected AfD state parliamentarians in Saxony-Anhalt include two people linked to a recent raid on a banned neo-Nazi group, guy who forged his high school diploma and a former stasi officer Like, are German political parties not familiar with oppo? x.com/Jakob_D04/st...

This rock in Leipzig marks the spot where the General German Workers' Association — the world’s first labour party — was founded 163 years ago in 1863 It was the world’s first party organized to build political power for working-class people Happy Labour Day, Canada

So basically… The National Observer found a bunch of websites designed to confuse voters as poison AI that had possible linkages to Keith Wilson’s “Let Alberta Decide”… And when they asked for comment those websites suddenly went offline. Cool. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/04/i...

Foreign interference, MAGA-style. #abpoli #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/04/i...

She’s very concerned about the foreign influence campaigns she deliberately invited into our political discourse. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Put another way, the entire adult userbase is going to have to upload their IDs to sketchy third-party companies and link their identities to their online activity to stop a few dozen kids from accessing a platform that is mainly left-leaning news and commentary. What problem is this solving?

NEW from me: I took a deep dive for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social into the American hedge fund-owned Canadian newspaper chain that’s pushing anti-trans, pro-genocide and climate science denial narratives down our throats. ricochet.media/media/dumpst...

Perhaps no man in the history of our nation has ever spent as much money on making himself appear likeable than Pierre Poilievre

Private equity is buying America's hospitals and nursing homes. The playbook: pile on debt, sell the building, cut staff. The result, one landmark study found: patient deaths up about 11%. #news #information #privateequity

US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra welcomed Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich to his July 4 party in Ottawa tonight Lich is currently serving a house arrest sentence in relation to a criminal conviction over her role in the convoy's three-week occupation of Canada's capital city

well I guess I should put this in the article I'm writing for tomorrow that I had tentatively titled 'The Trans Kids Sports Case Is Not About Sports'

“What AI is actually doing is upgrading the institution on the other side of you — giving the side that already had more lawyers, more time and more money the power to produce more pressure, faster, for almost nothing,” Jason Ward writes. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

BREAKING: Trump’s rule change for the Office of Management and Budget will not only require agencies to ensure grants advance the president’s priorities, it will also kill up to 5,000 clinical trials — including 1,000 cancer treatment studies fight2win.standupforscience.net @standupforscience.net

🆕 from me: Landlords in the House: Advocates see a bias in Parliament against renters #cdnpoli globalnews.ca/news/1191847...

The only way to prevent future radicalization, and more terror attacks, is to break this toxic internet addiction and to push lonely young men back into a shared society. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

@mark-carney.bsky.social @charlieangus104.bsky.social Our ancestors did not die fighting fascists with graves lining Europe to tolerate fascist injustices south of our border. Our ancestors knew the stakes training in the UK then, we better damn well know the stakes of injustice now. DO SOMETHING.

Danielle Smith is angling to be Canada's Nigel Farage. I break down years of her absurd fantasies about an independent Alberta, and the role she played in whipping up separatist fever. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Love Romances comic #104 from 1963 agrees.

Two-tier health care, in violation of the Canada Health Act, is now a reality in Alberta. You can pay your surgeon to jump the public wait list and get your surgery ahead of everyone else. Instead of fixing public health care, Danielle Smith is destroying it. #ableg #abpoli

During the visit of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark to Vancouver in 1991, I served her (or rather her secretary who handled the money) in the gift shop when they made a quiet impromptu visit to the Museum of Anthropology at UBC.

🇨🇦’s political parties are using Bill C-4 to permanently exempt themselves from basic privacy law. We have days to force the House to accept the Senate’s sunset clause compromise. Tell your MP: respect voter privacy, sunset Bill C-4! openmedia.org/C4Sunset-bsky @openmedia.org