this is actually a good reminder that you should delete the tracking nonsense off of any url that you share online. just delete everything after the ? (including the question mark) and share like you usually would

Supporting our sisters and brothers in CUPE Local 4186 at their rally last night at the LDCSB Office about the cuts to their members. #solidarity #onedunited

Today The Competition Bureau of Canada announced an investigation into Sobey’s use of property controls such as restrictive covenants that limit where grocery stores can open (or what stores in a certain area near a Sobeys can and can’t sell).

Canada’s Bill C-22 is riddled with privacy problems that affect millions of people. Instead of jamming it though on an arbitrary deadline, it should be debated fully. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The latest news story I wrote @abworker.bsky.social

Governments are chasing AI investment, even as their publics turn against the technology and the data centers that power it. Canada’s Mark Carney has chosen a shameless approach: to cast the opposition as a lack of “literacy” as he sets out to (re)educate Canadians about the benefits of AI.

Share and make the call.

"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”"

GERMANY: Union Brings IKEA to a Standstill: Over 8,000 Workers Walk Out at 31 German Stores in Pay Dispute www.ad-hoc-news.de/boerse/news/...

But I was told it was inevitable.

"The United Auto Workers (UAW) voted narrowly to amend its constitution and ban investment in Israel Bonds, a move expected to lead to divestment of about $400,000"(QNN) #US #Israel

1/ The federal government has tabled a new water bill that backtracks on recognizing the human right to water for First Nations. This is shameful, and it is a slap in the face of communities who have been waiting for decades to have safe drinking water.

1/ Major Canadian experts in internet security and privacy - like @rondeibert.bsky.social, @openmedia.org and @cancivlib.bsky.social - are absolutely freaking out about Bill C-22. They’re sounding massive alarms, warning that it could:

How do we make digital sovereignty and public, democratically-controlled AI for the public good into real nation-building initiatives? Join the Broadbent Institute & Rumbo Collectivo for a discussion on AI and Digital Sovereignty at @arts-tmu.bsky.social 🔗 broadbentinstitute.ca/digital-sovereignty

Today I joined @ndp.ca leader @avilewis.ca in solidarity with Grassy Narrows Chief Sherry Ackabee and Chrissy Isaacs, calling on Prime Minister Carney to apologize for his disrespectful comments and demanding the Liberal government end their decades-long mercury poisoning crisis. (1/3)

Another crammed Air Canada flight, delays and cancellations, grumpy people, crappy WiFi… But half of us are on cloud 9, peering at stuttering images from Vancouver, cheering wildly! What a game.

NEW: Across Africa, the State Department has demanded access to health data for millions of people as a condition of giving countries billions of dollars in aid needed to address HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and other illnesses.

This looks interesting. In Toronto July 9th. broadbentinstitute.ca/events/progr...

Update to my story from the weekend:

The requests come in the wake of a Star investigation that looked into Rombout's time working for the provincial Ministry of Mines, where he directed bureaucrats at multiple ministries on how to advance a mining project, and his subsequent move the private sector. More from @emmamci.bsky.social:

1/ The federal government has finally acknowledged the practice of surveillance pricing, months after the NDP raised the alarm and sparked a national conversation about it. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

A new bill set to be introduced by the Carney government removes a provision in a previous bill that would have recognized that First Nations have a human right to clean drinking water www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Holy crap. So many Albertans are going to get sick. With Alt Text. #ableg #abpoli #abhealth #alberta

Do 17-year-olds go to jail if they ignore the British government and keep watching YouTube past 8 PM?

A few years ago, lawmakers insisted that age-gating laws were intended only to keep young people from accessing porn. Now, they’re threatening to ban youth from all social media. This dramatic shift of the Overton window towards mass censorship should concern all of us. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Israel does not recognize the idea of borders. Katz: “Israel will not withdraw from the security zones in Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza. The IDF will continue to defend our borders and our citizens from the peak of Mount Hermon, the mountains of Lebanon, the areas of our land in the Samaria region...

Lots of info on the NoJets page!

"He just smiled and handed me a Vegemite sandwich". One thing about Toronto, when it comes to food, you can find just about anything.

This is truly evil #bossware www.404media.co/software-upd...

The biggest danger to kids online comes from the owners of the online platforms. Any legislation should punch up at the owners and not punch down at the kids and the general public.

Crowding the gates of a major health care conference, protesters called for Palantir to be booted out of the UK’s National Health Service over privacy concerns and political grievances. www.wired.com/story/palant...

The Libre Office folks are correct. You can't truly be sovereign where you are locked in to Microsoft's proprietary file formats. It's been a 20 year struggle to break from M$ file formats to the truly open "Open Document Format".

Pleased to note the publication of my long poem "Enclosure," a kind of poetic journal of the first few months of the Gaza genocide, in Asemana Magazine. asemanamagazine.substack.com/p/enclosure-...

We’ve received $9.6 million from 265,000 small-dollar donations. Susan Collins received $9.8 million from 79 billionaires.

www.cpac.ca/headline-pol... #NFUcanada board member Stuart Oke and others explain how Bill C-30 jeopardizes our food safety and agriculture systems. This is being rammed through to support Carney's deregulation agenda in food and ag under the cover of a "national food security policy".

Data centres are about extending the life of the fossil fuel era and continuing to destroy the planet in the process.

Tech companies rarely build separate operating systems for different states, so California's new age verification law likely will affect "everyone who uses [operating systems], including the billions of folks outside of California," EFF’s @aaronmackey.bsky.social told @pcmag.com.

Heather McPherson is a better representative of Toronto's interests than the 23 absolutely useless federal Liberal MP's who are trying to shove paving the Toronto waterfront for jets at Billy Bishop airport down our throats.

The good news is that Doug Ford went to the US. The bad news is that he came back.

4,000 OPSEU workers are on strike across Ontario in response to growing workloads, poor working conditions, and low wages. This overwhelmingly female workforce is making less today than it did in 2018. They deserve our support. See: bit.ly/4vE5JO8 @ricardotranjan.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

Reconciliation can’t mean making decisions first & talking to First Nations later. I asked the government to commit to meaningful consultation, accommodation, free, prior and informed consent, and to uphold the north coast oil tanker ban. #RECONCILIATION

a better world IS possible. organize. resist. help win the world we deserve.

1/ Canadians are getting clobbered by the cost of living, turbo-charged by food and fuel hikes thanks to the horrible, illegal US/Israeli war on Iran. Meanwhile Big Oil is laughing its way to the Big Banks – with $90 billion in wartime profiteering expected this year alone.

The NDP forced the Liberals to pass federal anti-scab legislation. But corporate giants are exploiting a loophole to use outside managers as replacement workers. The law must stop employers from using scab labour. Today I introduced Bill C-284 to close this loophole. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bicz...

Can I create one that says Jeff Bezos Sucks?

@fightforthefuture.org #InternetArchive #SaveTheArchive #Journalism #MediaTransparency #WaybackMachine

There is no technology that is safe for law enforcement to use, because law enforcement is fundamentally at odds with safety.

How much is his salary? #cdnpoli

2/2 given this: bsky.app/profile/thes... Especially given the recent history of Fed. Government appeasement of U.S. interests: www.readthemaple.com/trump-renews... & general willingness to share data: thewalrus.ca/trump-wants-... That there are few specifics here on safety is deeply concerning.