In using "AI" to replace rather than complement workers, Mark Carney is setting Canada up for a repeat of the CFIA listeria debacle that led to the deaths of three people. Expect multiple versions of that, and scandals like Australia's Robodebt. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Look what came in the mail yesterday! Nice to know that @ntusikov.bsky.social’s and my book on the global political economy of knowledge (data, IP) and how it’s transforming society will now have an even wider readership.

Adult industry workers - from content creators to escorts - have bank accounts closed without warning + financial services unjustly denied over their profession. Why is legal, consensual work targeted for debanking in 🇨🇦? Learn more: www.internetmaggie.com/debankingfacts @publicpubics.bsky.social

Good editorial: Regulate AI chatbots dispensing medical diagnoses by requiring a license. Medical AI chatbots are operating w/o regulation Canada, & patients are being harmed. Better to go further & completely prohibit this dangerous, unaccountable tech. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Contra Andrew Phillips, Carney has been *extremely* clear on where he and his government stand both on trading off Canadians’ individual security for an Indian trade deal, and on supporting a Trump’s illegal war. It’s just that Phillips and others don’t want to believe him.

Not a single word about international law—these attacks are clearly, unambiguously illegal. Not a single word about sovereignty—Carney’s supposed bedrock value, as claimed in Davos. No concern about Iran being attacked by the US while pursuing diplomacy—as Canada embarks on existential USMCA talks.

WIN!!! ✊ Just got news SFU has decided NOT to renew its contract w/ @hootsuite.com. Our university made the right choice, choosing not to be associated with a tech company aiding and abetting fascism in the US.

New from me: Here's how Carney puts his Davos speech into action. 1. strong public support for the ICC, which Canada helped establish. Trump is attacking Canadian ICC judge Kimberly Prost, who is shut out of the banking system & blacklisted by US tech firms policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/02/carn...

This is decent journalism but it’s not great. It’s the 20th+ piece that I read from varied outlets that don’t mention the fact that self-regulation is the norm. Canada’s trade strategy welcomes American tech then lets the sector regulate itself. Why is this context always missing?

One of the reasons that the Carney government’s been caught flat-footed on AI governance is that their hand-picked AI panel and their overall, rushed, AI-summarized Potemkin Consultation was designed to minimize and exclude critical pro-regulation experts.

Great article on (overstated) fears of security & privacy risks to Canadians from Chinese EVs by Guillaume Beaumier in @policyoptions.irpp.org. Canada needs updates rules, including on privacy, to deal w/ all EVs, not just Chinese ones. policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/02/chin...

What a surprise that AI tools built on theft & deception won't voluntarily change their business models. PM & AI Minister, this is where you act like a govt & actually regulate. Don't settle for industry 'transparency' & voluntary best practices. Set binding rules. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Important editorial (paywall) by @internetmaggie.com & Val Webber on Canadian banks' debanking sex workers with claims of high-risk transactions & risks to corporate reputations. Result is financial discrimination & stigma. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

and to learn more, read our full report! Account Closed Without Notice: Debanking Adult Industry Workers in Canada 🍁 www.internetmaggie.com/debanking @publicpubics.bsky.social @ntusikov.bsky.social @mskatesinclaire.bsky.social @islamoon.bsky.social @charlyjezebel.bsky.social

Excellent article: US sex workers organising to protect their digital rights, pushing back against sweeping contracts that would sign over their likeness (& IP) to employers. AI models of workers could be created for ads, products, or porn, but without their workers' knowledge or consent.

The Palestinian Olympic Committee report 1,007 members of the Gaza athletic community have been murdered by Israel. Athleticide. journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...

“If Mastercard & Visa were turned off, it would send us back to the 1950s.” The UK is exploring a sovereign payment system because of fears that Trump could disrupt the credit card network. What are Canada's plans for a sovereign payment system? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Canada had to provide prior & express permission to Israel to allow a plane carrying #ICC suspect & PM Netanyahu to enter Canada's airspace. This flies against not only the Court's warrant but any sense of justice and accountability. Why, @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

I’ve been saying for months that how the Carney government jumps on the F-35 will tell us a great deal about whether they truly intend to distance Canada from the US. Carney is still moving Canada toward deeper US integration. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Valuable new report on debanking & sex workers / adult entertainment workers in Canada. A must read on financial discrimination with recommendations for financial inclusion.

Also, chatbots should be regulated as medical devices. If they’re not fit for purpose, they should be removed from the market. Unless our government simply doesn’t care about actually doing their job. Which increasingly seems to be the case.

A warning to other countries like Canada that depend on FDA regulation of AI medical devices. With FDA cutbacks, "federal regulators are now less equipped to handle the flood of new ones." More patient injuries & medical errors as firms rush these devices to market. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

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Can Canada maintain its critical public science functions in the face of civil service job cuts? “Public science is the science that isn't as glamorous, it isn't profitable…. Public science is the science that needs to be done.” www.cbc.ca/radio/whaton...

In contrast to Europe, Canada’s response has been to leave X/Musk’s many, many inexcusable actions to the largely toothless Privacy Commissioner, with AI Promotion Minister Evan Solomon reassuring everyone via a Midnight Tweet (on X — classy) that Canada wouldn’t be banning X.

Unlike Canada, Europe is actually taking steps to secure its digital autonomy. This one stood out: “The Austrian military said it has also switched to LibreOffice, a software package with word processor, spreadsheet and presentation programs that mirrors Microsoft 365’s Word, Excel and PowerPoint.”

Interested in femtech? Marika Jeziorek & I have a policy paper comparing the governance of 3 period-tracking apps through a lens of feminist political economy. These apps must be understood not as neutral health innovations but as infrastructures of governance balsilliepapers.ca/bsia-paper/b...

“After the Davos speech, I expect to see a change in defence policy. Otherwise, I wonder if the prime minister really believes what he is saying, or if it's rather a way to put pressure on the United States.” @plagasse.bsky.social lays it out precisely. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Great. I’m glad the Prime Minister is keen on Canadian culture. I’d therefore like to know why all of the “nation building” projects that were re-announced were focused on mining, port, and energy infrastructure, and not a single one focused on cultural infrastructure.

Critiquing the F-35 purchase isn’t emotional, irrational anti-Americanism, as James Fergusson baselessly claims here. It’s based on a sound, rational understanding of how networked devices function. Pretending the problem doesn’t exist won’t make it go away. blaynehaggart.com/2025/03/08/t...

Carney's Davos speech called for middle powers to build institutions. That's going to be pretty difficult w/ Carney's gutting of scientific experts in public health, agriculture, & environment, & with the loss of diplomatic & trade experts. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

"By breaking any ties with ICE, Canada and Canadian companies have an opportunity to offer a lasting reminder to our neighbours to the South and ourselves what decency, solidarity, and compassion look like." My latest @ricochetmedia.bsky.social: ricochet.media/justice/poli...

Preparing a chapter that includes a part on cleantech, and I came across this part in Peter Drahos' meticulously researched Survival Governance (17 countries, 250 interviews with experts at the highest levels of industry and government). This is why I think so little of Carney's pipeline gambit.

"Regardless of the rhetoric in Davos, Carney’s cuts will leave Canada less equipped to deal with the reality the prime minister himself so eloquently described."

Premier Eby: “To go to a foreign country & to ask for assistance of breaking up Canada, there’s an old-fashioned word for that, & that word is treason. It is completely inappropriate to seek to weaken Canada, to seek to go & ask for assistance to break up this country from a foreign power.”

If the Russians or Chinese had done this, we’d be expelling their ambassador…

Useful list here of Canadian companies working with ICE. Next steps: public pressure to shame them for their collaboration & demands that MPs call for reform, such as a mandatory due diligence law (like France) that would require firms to comply with Canadian laws & not violate human rights.

New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt criticizes ICE's operations in Maine, saying it’s “very, very uncomfortable” to have them at the border. Still no travel advisory from the Canadian govt about travel to the US. globalnews.ca/news/1164163...

Human beings losing their lives because of austerity applied to food safety cannot just be considered a 'cost of doing business.'

Carney's dangerous austerity plan means fewer food inspectors & less capacity to track food borne illness. As the US is gutting its food safety regulations & Canada imports over half our food from the US, how does cutting food inspection here make us safer? www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Add this to the list of things Mark Carney could be focusing on to safeguard Canada, but isn’t. This is an easy win. It’s relatively inexpensive. And others have already done all the work. And doesn’t Carney want deeper links with Europe? Canada should announce tomorrow that we’re on board.

Carney is also diverting research funds to AI and defence and to concentrating funding into a small number of "star" researchers rather than funding our community properly. Exactly the same playbook as Harper.

In December, the Canadian government gave $1 million to Ottawa's JSI Telecom to commercialize AI-driven data analytics. JSI, a wiretaps and investigation support firm, had a banner year in U.S. government sales in 2025, including a big new contract with ICE. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...

Just as a follow-up to this, here is a picture of the letter I sent my MP. I will post the text in the alt-text below if you want to copy use it as a basis for your own letter to your own MP. You can find out who your MP is here: www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en

United States: Buy jets that we control, or we’ll violate your airspace at will. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Terrific oped: "ICE has a Canadian presence. There are five ICE field offices in Canada, the U.S. embassy in Ottawa & consulates in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, & Montréal. People might begin observing &/or protesting at these sites." Let's kick them out of Canada.

I posted the link to contact your MPs yesterday. Write, call, visit their office, but demand something be done. I would also like to add, that DJT posted a video of Doug Ford's antics about the EV cars from China, and used it as validation for the tariffs. Maybe ask to have Ford held accountable

For Canadians horrified by ICE's campaign of terror in the US, here's something to do: demand #Roshel not be permitted to export armoured vehicles to ICE. Contact your provincial & federal reps, including Minister Anita Anand. @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...

Checking in with the Carney government’s US travel advisory, as Trump unleashes state terror on Minneapolis and ICE continues to rampage throughout the country, and, yep. Canada’s still going along to get along. Great speech, though. travel.gc.ca/destinations...

There is not a lot Canadians can do about ICE, but we can ask Parliament to investigate Canadian companies doing business with them, like Hootsuite. Call or email your MP - or contact the INDU House committee MPs. Will post link below. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...