Cannot believe our daughter is 17 today. She’s the most wonderful, smart, kind, strong woman.

Today the Ontario IPC and OHRC jointly released our AI Principles. They are designed to help orgs develop, deploy, and use AI systems in ways that maintain the public trust while respecting privacy and upholding human rights. Read the Joint IPC-OHRC AI Principles at: www.ipc.on.ca/en/resources...

News release: Privacy Commissioner of Canada expands investigation into social media platform X following reports of AI-generated sexualized deepfake images - Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada www.priv.gc.ca/en/op...

We’ve adopted a new policy clarifying how we’ll be using digital platforms to share our journalism Going forward, we will expect any platforms we use to demonstrate basic commitments to user safety, information integrity and democratic values Learn more: pressprogress.ca/journalistic...

An unusual #CRTC decision dropped today: Eastlink has to continue to sell certain speeds to competitors even though they are not selling them at retail, signaling the CRTC's willingness to balance competition concerns against slavish adherence to past practice. crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/...

📢 Today, TekSavvy published a **Quarterly Transparency Report** about requests we got from police and how we handled them. This report covers the period from April to June, 2025 and as usual, I’m summarizing that report here 🧵👇🏼 #Privacy #Transparency #TransparencyReport #Telecom #TekSavvy 1/9

TekSavvy is the only ISP in Canada (AFAIK) that publishes detailed information about how we handle requests from law enforcement. You can learn more from our Law Enforcement Guide, which includes what info we have about subscribers, and when we do or do not disclose it. www.teksavvy.com/pol... 9/9

📢 Today, TekSavvy published a **Quarterly Transparency Report** about requests we got from police and how we handled them. This report covers the period from April to June, 2025 and as usual, I’m summarizing that report here 🧵👇🏼 #Privacy #Transparency #TransparencyReport #Telecom #TekSavvy 1/9

In happier news, it is our 27th wedding anniversary today. Jan 3, 1999, we braved the Toronto snowstorm of the century. As much in love now. Photos by Vince Pietropaolo

Picard management tip: If you're on red alert every day, then red alert means nothing.

📢 Today, TekSavvy published a **Quarterly Transparency Report** about requests we got from police and how we handled them. Last week, we published the report on Jan to Mar, 2025 and as usual, I’m summarizing that report here 🧵👇🏼 #Privacy #Transparency #TransparencyReport #Telecom #TekSavvy 1/9

📢 Today, TekSavvy published a **Quarterly Transparency Report** about requests we got from police and how we handled them. Last week, we published the report on Jan to Mar, 2025 and as usual, I’m summarizing that report here 🧵👇🏼 #Privacy #Transparency #TransparencyReport #Telecom #TekSavvy 1/9

From Peter Nowak's Do Not Pass Go podcast: "The Canadian SHIELD Institute: A rad, not radical think tank"

There's a new must-read/listen substack reporting on competition in Canada by and now-podcaster @peternowak.bsky.social. It's called Do Not Pass Go, and it promises to fill the void in competition journalism. donotpassgo.substack.com #cdnpoli #competition

Important read: “a faculty association should avoid adopting political positions unless expressly authorized in its constitution: the political line in the sand is spelled out in the constitution.” www.caut.ca/bulletin/con...

The tariff wall is real

This was cathartic. I learned a lot about the education system through my work as a school board trustee in Ottawa. It was an honour to represent my constituents. No surprise that they were shut down within days of my resignation. I hope they aren’t reinstated before addressing their dysfunction.

I wish Canadians were more familiar with the Amazon Antitrust Paradox and the Curse of Bigness. Allowing Bell, Rogers, and Telus to enter new markets is market dominance disguised as competition. N.S.-based internet provider cries foul over federal regulations | CBC News www.cbc.ca/news/cana...

As of today, TekSavvy is blocking two more sets of sites, as required by Quebec court orders: xt-dot-com and coinex. Traffic to those sites is redirected to the gov's info page. But for transparency, TekSavvy also published information: www.teksavvy.com/policies/int... #TekSavvy #siteblocking

My family went on an epic Canadian roadtrip in a 2011 Mini Countryman, and check out this animation of it. We put a rooftop tent on our manual Mini (named Manuel). We drove from Ottawa to the west coast and back, visiting and camping in some of Canada's beautiful provincial and national parks.

Opinion from Andrew Coyne: If Bell doesn’t like competing with Telus on its own broadband network, it really won’t like the alternatives Gift link: www.theglobeandmail....

Opinion: Ottawa should reverse the CRTC’s decision on wholesale internet access www.theglobeandmail....

It. Can’t. “Apologize.”

Bigger Data Analytics

Join our last CIPPIC Summer Speaker Series: Telecommunications in Canada with Chairperson Vicky Eatrides and Deputy Executive Director Rachelle Frenette from the CRTC. 🗓 July 30, 2025 🕐 1PM EST 📍 Hybrid (in-person and online) 🎟 Free with registration → www.eventbrite.ca/e/cippic-sum...

📢 Today, TekSavvy published a **Quarterly Transparency Report** about requests we got from police and how we handled them. Today, we’re reporting on October to December, 2024 and as usual, I’m summarizing that report here 🧵👇🏼 #Privacy #Transparency #TransparencyReport #Telecom 1/9

Thinking and reading about Canada's retreat on the Digital Services Tax today. Lots of food for thought in this guest article by Barry Appleton on @vassb.bsky.social's substack: 🇺🇸 trump's game of thrones www.regs2riches.com/p/trumps-gam...

Telecoms want federal cabinet to overturn #CRTC decision on incumbent access to wholesale fibre: www.thewirereport.ca/2025/06/20/t...

The #CRTC decision in their own review of last year's wholesale decision is out: The CRTC is *not* changing the decision. In short, they say the evidence in the appeals did not convince them that they got the decision last year wrong. crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/... Background: bsky.app/profile/did:...

The #CRTC decision in their own review of last year's wholesale decision is out: The CRTC is *not* changing the decision. In short, they say the evidence in the appeals did not convince them that they got the decision last year wrong. crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/... Background: bsky.app/profile/did:...

We expect the #CRTC to release a major Internet competition decision on Friday morning: We think this will be their decision in the various appeals ("review & varies" in CRTC lingo) of their August wholesale competition decision. Okay, there's a lot going on there, so I'll break it down: 🧵👇🏼 1/8

There's a significant development in the saga of website blocking in Canada: Quebec's agency that regulates financial markets is banning cryptoexchanges XT and CoinEx, and to enforce it they got a court order forcing listed ISPs to block the sites: lautorite.qc.ca/en/g... #siteblocking 1/3

In a major #CRTC decision today on local news funding, Commissioner Bram Abramson—in a dissent—writes he would have mandated Creative Commons licensing for funded news content: Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2025-133 crtc.gc.ca/eng/archi...#CRTC#creativecommons

Statement by Prime Minister Carney on the recovery of Judih Weinstein’s remains by Israel www.pm.gc.ca/en/news...

I'm so proud of @nilikm for everything she accomplished, from winning her first campaign to the great work she did on the board representing constituents and advancing the many causes that are close to her heart. She doesn't give up easily, so I'm also proud of her for knowing when enough is enough.

In a recent decision in an Ontario criminal court, a judge identified fake cases cited in defence submissions, apparently generated by AI. The judge gave defence counsel a second try, but with strict rules to keep things above-board: R. v. Chand, 2025 ONCJ 282 (CanLII) www.canlii.org/en/on/oncj/d...

"...Crucially, the band is asserting its *moral rights* to not be associated with Mr. Poilievre’s politics, which are at odds with the often left-leaning stances the band takes in song." Toronto band Martha and the Muffins at odds with Conservatives over song use www.theglobeandmail....

On this week’s Law Bytes, @mgeist and Abdi Aidid have a thoughtful talk about risks and opportunities with AI in law. They don’t talk about in house counsel, but it feels like a timely discussion about many of the same things I’m thinking about at work lately. www.michaelgeist.ca/podcast/epis...

I once made an even worse choice of shoes to wear to the Senate.

When she was an infant, at her baby naming, we passed her around the room to be held by family and friends. She looked around the room at her bat mitzvah and saw many of the same people and new faces smiling at her. The past three days of laughter and love, her strong voice, has filled our hearts.

Joly (Industry) and Guilbeault (Heritage now called Identity and Culture) don’t exactly signal change on digital files. But Evan Solomon named as new Minister of AI and Digital Innovation. Will be interesting to see how responsibility for AI, IP and privacy shakes out.

If you're willing to pay the ransom to extortionists, don't be surprised if they don't delete the data like they promised to. School boards hit with ransom demands linked to PowerSchool cyberattack | CBC News www.cbc.ca/news/cana...

Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, begins tonight. This photo from the Warsaw Ghetto may include my grandfather (his 4 sisters and parents were murdered). My daughter, now, is in Poland. She marched from Auschwitz to Birkenau with other Jewish youth, a testament to our survival. #NeverAgain

📢 Today, TekSavvy published a **Quarterly Transparency Report** about requests we got from police and how we handled them. Today, we’re reporting on July to September, 2024 and as usual, I’m summarizing that report here 🧵👇🏼 #Privacy #Transparency #TransparencyReport #Telecom 1/7

📢 Today, TekSavvy published a **Quarterly Transparency Report** about requests we got from police and how we handled them. Today, we’re reporting on July to September, 2024 and as usual, I’m summarizing that report here 🧵👇🏼 #Privacy #Transparency #TransparencyReport #Telecom 1/7

I would’ve been less surprised if they were using Telegram

I changed back to my summer tires today, and now it’s snowing out. Because of course it is.

I am happy to see some Senate colleagues already here before me - now trying to convince others to join. If you want to understand more about Canada’s Senate and its work, start here! go.bsky.app/Qua1iWy #cdnpoli #SenateofCanada #Canada

Over on Mastodon, I've posted the latest #TekSavvy Quarterly Transparency Report. These reports disclose what law enforcement agencies ask us for information about subscribers, and how often we give it to them, which we only do if we are legally required to. Read it here: mstdn.ca/@andykm/1137...

It is our 26th anniversary today. Married at the Narayever, my childhood synagogue, in an historic Toronto snow storm. Our friends and family shovelled (and the army shovelled for the city). Our photo is in a Canada Post book (thanks to a documentary photographer who recorded the ceremony).