"The Liberal government has allocated $30.4 million to CBSA to expand enforcement, with a goal of carrying out 20,000 deportations a year. Carney’s Liberal government boasted that in 2025, they deported even more than that—23,160 people, the highest number in one year in Canada’s history."

An environmental group is arguing that PM Carney could have insisted that data centres be powered by renewable energy. Instead, the largest proposed facilities will be powered by natural gas. @geoffdembicki.bsky.social and @jenstden.bsky.social report. #canpoli

“... mandating that every social media user verify their age is highly invasive, while verification measures frequently create disproportionate challenges for marginalized communities”

There are, in fact, yes or no questions.

New from me: The cops who AI-enhance blurry photos to try to catch suspects are actually just tampering with evidence, lying to the public and raising the risk of wrongful arrests

Documents obtained by @greenpeaceca.bsky.social: One of the big 'benefits' of AI data centres, according to Carney government, is a bigger market for fossil gas www.desmog.com/2026/06/11/m...

"...overly broad age verification categories might restrict access not only to explicit content but to age-appropriate LGBTQ2S+ content deemed inappropriate for politically motivated reasons, says the report."

“Today our gov’t reintroduced some of the best parts of the Online Harms Act … that step forward is marred by new provisions that threaten to require a face scan or ID requirement for dozens of services Canadians use every day, from gaming, to cloud storage, to your local community message boards”

We're not organizing this one, but if you're in Ottawa this Sat, consider showing up!

Elon Musk out here turning Twitter into Radio Rwanda

@sarahowen.org.uk it's not only adult trans people that Gender Conservatives are targeting. Via the NHS they're now forcibly de-transitioning anyone under 18 who'd accessed internationally recognised best practice medical care & offering them the conversion abuse known as Gender Exploratory Therapy

The Carney government is trialing AI use in prisons to create profile reports of prisoners, because what could go wrong www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

We testified before Parliament this Tuesday: “You can’t fix Bill C-22 with light amendments.” 🚨What’s being decided right now will shape how Canadians experience the internet for years to come. Take action on Stop Bill C-22: openmedia.org/StopC22-bsky #cdnpoli #BillC22

Parents who want their kids to be genuinely literate have no choice but to *make* their kids read by any means necessary, because school isn't going to. Kids should get an e-reader years before they ever touch a smartphone or general-purpose tablet. And a fuckton of paper books, too.

Just a constant horror show as the privacy of trans patients is constantly eroded. As a former patient of Mount Sinai, this is a massive betrayal to their patients. Your medical records are not safe with them. gothamist.com/news/nyc-par...

Our personal health data is not for sale—especially to tech oligarchs!

Washington Examiner joins the censorship chorus, and believes they will be greeted as liberators. "All pornography must be made illegal ... we must free people from partaking in it at all."

1. A new Gallup poll shows collapsing support for gay marriage and LGB relationships. It appears to be driven entirely by the Republican Party... Moderates and Democrats have seen no such collapse. It shows that Republicans will not stop with trans people. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Fyi to those unfamiliar with the history: “your sex life makes you too vulnerable to blackmail and so we must ban you from government work” is what we did to queer people in America throughout most of the 20th century

Glad to speak with MPs about #BillC22's many problems today; but good intentions are not enough, only massive amendments or striking Part 2 can save this bill and make it safe for rights in 🇨🇦. cheknews.ca/mps-get-an-e... #cdnpoli

Applying for a government job shouldn't trigger a nationwide location tracking search. Yet EFF identified multiple law enforcement agencies in Missouri, Texas, Mississippi, and Illinois using Flock ALPR networks to run background checks. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down: www.404media.co/cities-are-c...

Linux is Getting a Free Pass on Age Verification in California and Colorado itsfoss.com/news/age-ver...

Age verification laws are censorship and surveillance and are dangerous to queer and trans people. This is how you build the infrastructure to ban queer and trans people from the internet.

Canada's biggest labour body has voted to cut ties with its Israeli counterpart. How Palestine activists eked out a win at the Canadian Labour Congress: pressprogress.ca/clc-histadru...

The Department of National Defence quietly inked a $3.7-million contract last year with American data giant Palantir, newly released documents show. It’s the latest in what some experts see as the government’s deepening links to the controversial U.S. tech firm.

Workers at the National Abortion Hotline Union are on a 24-hour ULP strike today after management refused to bargain in good faith over the implementation of artificial intelligence technology on the Hotline. No bots in abortion care! wbng.org/2026/05/26/n...

Mass surveillance Bill C-22 is one of the most significant laws being pushed atm, but it is getting little attention. The Bill lays groundwork for giving US warrantless access to data, compels technology providers to build surveillance tools into their systems, and strips privacy protections.

why does the “you can’t fight it” rhetoric around AI feel so familiar?? 🤔

Eroding the social safety net, privatizing airports, ending pharmacare, hundreds of millions cut from Indigenous services, postal service on life support, billions in welfare to big tech for data centers, bullets still shipping to Israel... Can't put into words how right wing this government is

Prison abolitionist art creates a future to briefly live in, and from that place, turn and look at our present.

8 Democrats voted yes 6 Democrats abstained Yes - Cuellar (TX) - Davis (NC) - Fields (LA) - Gillen (NY) - Gonzalez, V. (TX) - Kaptur (OH) - Perez (WA) - Vindman (VA) Did not vote - Craig (MN) - Jackson (IL) - Johnson (TX) - Moskowitz (FL) - Neal (MA) - Thompson (MS)

New derogatory term for the working class just dropped.

No matter what lawmakers claim, surveillance of encrypted communications is fundamentally a systemic vulnerability. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

#BillC22 is going to change your rights to #privacy. Friends from OpenCivics put together a quick walkthrough and explained why we need Canadians to stop it together now! 👉 dontsurveil.me/c22.html #cdnpoli @openmedia.org

The dangers of government censorship & surveillance are not hypothetical, and online ID check mandates WILL give these fascists another weapon to track us and silence resistance movements. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Starting September 2026, Google will block any Android app whose developer hasn't registered and provided government ID. This affects all apps, not just Play Store apps. F-Droid calls it an "existential threat." @keepandroidopen.bsky.social #KeepAndroidOpen keepandroidopen.org

There's not a single other medical procedure that has less than a 1% regret rate. Heart surgery has a 20% regret rate.

The Ontario Police got a court authorization to use spyware (they call it “on‑device investigative tool” or ODIT) to investigate a car theft ring. We need more of these cases to be public. Keeping the use of spyware secret is not doing authorities any favors. www.thestar.com/news/ontario...

BREAKING: Boston City Council just unanimously passed a resolution condemning dangerous age verification and censorship laws, including the proposals put forward by @massgovernor.bsky.social and the MA House. Backlash to age gating social media is growing! www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05...

WEDNESDAY: A growing coalition of human rights, LGBTQ+, civil liberties and racial justice groups will deliver a letter signed by 50+ organizations opposed to dangerous "age verification" proposals in Massachusetts. www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05...

The White House says they will “identify and neutralise” political groups that are anti-American, “radically pro-transgender” and anarchist. (www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...)

In celebration of Migratory Bird Day on May 9th, join Library Freedom Project for a deFlocking event! Learn about the tech in Flock cameras, how to find them in your area, and ways to fight back. Hear from EFF's @cooperq.com , @lucyparsonslabs.com and LFP. RSVP below us02web.zoom.us/meeting/reg...

A sweeping decision threatens to unravel one of the most important pathways to care post-Dobbs.

#BillC22 was just referred to committee, where it will hopefully see weeks of study and debate. There's still time to stop it; but we need thousands of people in 🇨🇦 to wake up to the problem and speak up, NOW. Tell your MP: stop Bill C-22! www.openmedia.org/StopC22 6/

Trans Day of Visibility is a reminder that workers are strongest when we stand together. We celebrate trans and gender-diverse workers, and recommit to fighting for workplaces where everyone is safe and respected. Full statement: canadianlabour.ca?p=20848

We owe it to these kids to keep fighting for truth to prevail.

NEW from me today: Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come. xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...

Hey Canadian media ... "born as a biological male" is not the move when you're reporting on what happened in Tumbler Ridge. Here's is the @transjournalists.org Style Guide if you are covering this story today styleguide.transjournalists.org